The currency carry trade has gained popularity over the years due to the failure of the Uncovered Interest Parity – but the carry trade is susceptible to crash risk. Is there an asset class that offsets this risk? Gold has reinforced its status as an effective portfolio diversification properties but can it hedge carry trade losses? The US Dollar typically moves inversely to Gold and the US Dollar can also feature as an investment currency for the currency carry trade. The DB G10 Currency Harvest index is an index for carry trades and will serve as a proxy for carry trade performance. Furthermore, historic closing Gold prices can be collected and compared with carry trade index movements. This is an advanced research project capable of scoring very highly if done correctly. It requires advanced statistical analysis techniques, if you are not comfortable performing the analysis – we have degree qualified statisticians that can do the analysis for you. See further information HERE

Reputation risks is a potent force in this age. Even the giant McDonald’s is not immune. A recent example being when they pulled an advert and issued an apology thereafter. The “Dead Dad” campaign was seen as exploiting child bereavement and was heavily criticized. How do companies expose themselves to reputation risk and manage the ensuing crisis? Exploring this contentious scenario in the perspective of social media will pose an interesting proposition for those seeking risk management dissertation ideas. Your dissertation could take the form of a case study and use relevant theory to critically analyse the event, the actions taken to remedy the crisis and construct your own recommendations based on your findings.

Natural disasters result in severe loss to the insurance industry. Traditionally, the reinsurance sector inherits liability from smaller, primary insurers. In 1994 a new risk transferring instrument was innovated which permitted financial investors to bear catastrophe risk. The Catastrophe (Cat) Bond was introduced to the market and functions as an alternate to reinsurance contracts. The Cat Bond mitigates risk to a primary insurer that their reinsurer defaults on its liabilities.  However, basis risk can be a factor as the loss to the primary insurer may exceed the value of the bond. If a predetermined trigger event occurs, the bond’s value is ceded to the claimant. Absent and trigger events, the bond investor received payments. The advantages of the Cat bond has increased demand for risk transfer of catastrophe risk which many attribute to the currency soft underwriting conditions in the reinsurance market – given that primary insurers have more choice if reinsurance becomes too expensive. Your dissertation should compare and contrast the two risk transfer options – reviewing literature and company reports to determine which option is best for a primary insurer who wishes to purchase insulation from catastrophic loss

The Economist published a report claiming that fuel represents around one third of an airline company’s costs. This means that one of their single greatest outlays is completely beyond their control, but is it? Numerous strategies exist in hedging jet fuel. You have call and put options as well as going long futures contracts. Your dissertation should explore all aspects of these financial instruments and highlight the basis risk aspect of using these mechanisms. Basis risk will prove to be a large factor in your conclusions as airlines will be restricted to going long crude oil contracts in the futures market. Any divergence between the futures/spot price of crude relative to jet fuel will cause basis risk. The collar hedge should feature in your analysis. This is where the airline sells a put option to fund the purchase of a call option. If you require any assistance on a dissertation on this topic we will be glad to help. See further information HERE

A key concept in risk management is the underwriting cycle. Simply put, this is the price of risk transfer and empirical observation has shown that the prices enter soft and hard cyclical trends. Your dissertation will revert to historic events and depict how the underwriting cycle changed, Two market conditions will feature in your dissertation. These being, the hard and soft markets. Conditions are said to be “soft” if premiums are low due to increased capacity in the insurance sector. The converse holds for “hard” conditions which typically result after poor periods of performance where insurers are unwilling or unable to absorb any more risk, allowing the remaining insurers to increase their premiums. This Risk Management Dissertation idea will duly require you to analyse events such as natural disasters, changes in legislation, economic conditions and the composition of the insurance market. You may choose to base your research around a particular event such as the 2008 financial crisis. A case study on how this impacted the underwriting cycle will make very interesting reading.

This Risk Management Dissertation Idea will explore options available for an oil rig operator in the UK continental Shelf. Considerations will likely feature identification of risks such as well blow outs and the costs of remediation of pollution. The operator will need to appraise their insurance options and also which risks, if any, to retain via self insurance. After all, a reason as to why British petroleum still chooses to self insure is the company is financially larger than many of the insurance companies offering insulation. You should differentiate between the type of risk the operator is exposed to, for example, high probability low impact versus black swan events with low probability but very high impact. Each will require its own unique strategy. Your dissertation should invent a scenario and explore all options available for a rig operator in mitigating risk prior to drilling for hydrocarbon. The dissertation could also be in the form of a report, aimed at educating a team of directors in a multinational oil producing company.

In 2006, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was the fifth largest bank in the world but in 2009 posted the biggest annual loss ever seen in British Corporate history. The UK treasury was needed to interpose by purchasing 70% of RBS stock in order to rescue the bank. What went so wrong? This Risk Management Dissertation idea will feature analysis, from a risk practitioner’s perspective, of the events that preceded to the downfall of RBS. Your dissertation will feature flaws in regulation, diversification, contagion and the pitfalls of financial innovations. This topic is extremely expansive given the wide rage of factors that led to the 2008 crisis. It will be best to select a few factors and explore them in great detail. Utilise a large collection of relevant literature to reach your conclusions and recommendations. This dissertation will also suit those who wish to centralise their paper on corporate governance. The Agency theory could explain much of the behaviour of RBS staff.

Business continuity and crisis management is an important field in risk management. Critically analysing the actions taken by Merlin Entertainment will permit your dissertation to comprehensively depict the strategy employed during the company’s crisis. In 2015, a Merlin Entertainment operated ride “The Smiler” caused significant injury to several passengers after human error led to a roller coaster carriage colliding with a latent carriage. The impact was enough for two riders to need emergency limb amputation. The company’s handling of the aftermath has been applauded by several observers. Analysing the prologue of events will allow your dissertation to critically evaluate the company’s actions. How the media was addressed, how quickly the company admitted liability and how the crisis management was able to protect the company’s reputation.

This Risk Management dissertation proposal will determine whether minimal heightening of perceived domestically and externally driven political risk (reductions in political sentiment from high starting points) effects Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows into developed economies. Hayakawa et al (2013) will serve as an anchor for your research as their paper examined the effect of FDI in Myanmar following improvements to political risk profiles. A degree of data analysis will be required to assess the dynamic movements in FDI inflows over a period of two years before and two years after a component risk has risen in a basket of countries of your choosing. We recommend using the OECD constituents. We have degree qualified statisticians who can analyse your data for you should you need help with this aspect of the dissertation.

A key concept in risk management is the underwriting cycle. Simply put, this is the price of risk transfer and empirical observation has shown that the prices enter soft and hard cyclical trends. Your dissertation will revert to historic events and depict how the underwriting cycle changed, Two market conditions will feature in your dissertation. These being, the hard and soft markets. Conditions are said to be “soft” if premiums are low due to increased capacity in the insurance sector. The converse holds for “hard” conditions which typically result after poor periods of performance where insurers are unwilling or unable to absorb any more risk, allowing the remaining insurers to increase their premiums. This Risk Management Dissertation idea will duly require you to analyse events such as natural disasters, changes in legislation, economic conditions and the composition of the insurance market. You may choose to base your research around a particular event such as the 2008 financial crisis. A case study on how this impacted the underwriting cycle will make very interesting reading.

This Risk Management Dissertation Idea will explore options available for an oil rig operator in the UK continental Shelf. Considerations will likely feature identification of risks such as well blow outs and the costs of remediation of pollution. The operator will need to appraise their insurance options and also which risks, if any, to retain via self insurance. After all, a reason as to why British petroleum still chooses to self insure is the company is financially larger than many of the insurance companies offering insulation. You should differentiate between the type of risk the operator is exposed to, for example, high probability low impact versus black swan events with low probability but very high impact. Each will require its own unique strategy. Your dissertation should invent a scenario and explore all options available for a rig operator in mitigating risk prior to drilling for hydrocarbon. The dissertation could also be in the form of a report, aimed at educating a team of directors in a multinational oil producing company

In 2006, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was the fifth largest bank in the world but in 2009 posted the biggest annual loss ever seen in British Corporate history. The UK treasury was needed to interpose by purchasing 70% of RBS stock in order to rescue the bank. What went so wrong? This Risk Management Dissertation idea will feature analysis, from a risk practitioner’s perspective, of the events that preceded to the downfall of RBS. Your dissertation will feature flaws in regulation, diversification, contagion and the pitfalls of financial innovations. This topic is extremely expansive given the wide rage of factors that led to the 2008 crisis. It will be best to select a few factors and explore them in great detail. Utilise a large collection of relevant literature to reach your conclusions and recommendations. This dissertation will also suit those who wish to centralise their paper on corporate governance. The Agency theory could explain much of the behaviour of RBS staff.

Business continuity and crisis management is an important field in risk management. Critically analysing the actions taken by Merlin Entertainment will permit your dissertation to comprehensively depict the strategy employed during the company’s crisis. In 2015, a Merlin Entertainment operated ride “The Smiler” caused significant injury to several passengers after human error led to a roller coaster carriage colliding with a latent carriage. The impact was enough for two riders to need emergency limb amputation. The company’s handling of the aftermath has been applauded by several observers. Analysing the prologue of events will allow your dissertation to critically evaluate the company’s actions. How the media was addressed, how quickly the company admitted liability and how the crisis management was able to protect the company’s reputation.