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A listing of some of the nation's top publicly traded diversified financial companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

The best commercial brokers in the business know their customers sometimes better than customers know themselves. So, just who belongs to this vaunted group of middlemen and women for financial institutions? Find out the 2011 Power Broker® results.

Even financial services companies seek services sometimes--from risk management consultants. In their case, it's many times for assistance in the complex arts of enterprise risk management or operational risk management.

The Risk Management Association breaks down its members' interests in three rough categories--credit risk, operational risk and market risk. Yet the RMA's focus on all three demonstrates its overall dedication to enterprise risk management in the financial services sector.

The property/casualty industry might not need its shades in 2008. The outlook for the P/C sector does not look bright, despite recent successes in underwriting and earnings.

Executive cited as finding alternative ways to resolve disputes.

Regulators welcome making rules easier for carriers to do business in their states.

Price drops of 4 percent to 5 percent? The second straight year of underwriting profit, after many others of underwriting failure? What gives with these property/casualty carriers? Is there something more going on here than the usual business cycle? Analysis from Towers Perrin and A.M. Best can hopefully provide some answers.