Posts by metalicsteel

metalicsteel

Oct 5, 2009

Research Papers / Risk Management Thesis paper idea [6]

The fact is, my paper is going to be written for my senior thesis project. I am not trying to obtain a certain grade in any class for this project. On top of that, the finished thesis will be reviewed by other professors and published. I'm afraid I can't agree on your method of writing a paper that overwhelms the professors, but thanks for posting anyway.

metalicsteel

Oct 3, 2009

Research Papers / Risk Management Thesis paper idea [6]

Thanks Sean, that's actually a great idea. I think I will frame my argument of the paper to being the FACTORS that lead to AIG's failure. This will include the risks they took and their mentality of being an insurance company that is just "too big to fail" (which is what you mentioned in the previous post).

I am currently looking for articles that support my points, but I can't find any books as my sources since these events are pretty recent.

If anyone have more ideas to help my paper, please feel free to write it in this thread. I will need all the help I can get!! Thanks again.

metalicsteel

Sep 28, 2009

Research Papers / Risk Management Thesis paper idea [6]

Hi there, I am doing a 12-15 page senior thesis on my risk management and I am having quite some trouble with the topic to write about. I want to write about AIG and the risks they took that lead to their need for the bailout, but I can't figure out how to extend the paper to 12 pages. Here are the original ideas I had to support the topic:

*Talk about what risks AIG took
*How did those risks lead them to their brink of disaster
*Discuss the risk models they took (I found a lot of information about the "Fault" of the models, but I still have trouble finding the actual risk models that they used)

*Analyze in my own perspective the pros and cons of the risks.

The most trouble I have here is that I can't frame the ideas in an argument. Just writing about the ideas I had on the top will only be stuffing information in parts of the essay. I would really appreciate any additional ideas that I can write for this essay. Thanks.