October 21, 2005 :: No. 55

Stephen Wilder, vice president of risk management at the Disney Co., will discuss enterprise risk management during a Wednesday, Oct. 26, symposium at Cal State Fullerton.

Wilder’s hourlong presentation to faculty, staff, students and community members is sponsored by the College of Business and Economics’ Center for Insurance Studies.

The 2:30 p.m. program will be held in the Titan Theatre of the Titan Student Union.

The center, under the direction of Weili Lu, assistant professor of finance, was established to develop partnerships with the insurance industry and to attract and educate talented individuals for careers in the insurance and financial services industry.

Future events include special classroom presentations during Actuary Awareness Week, Oct. 31- Nov. 4. The annual observance is jointly sponsored by the Center for Insurance Studies and the departments of Mathematics, Information Systems and Decision Sciences.

Also scheduled are a Nov. 1 Insurance Entrepreneurship Symposium, with representatives from insurance brokerage and financial planning, and a Nov. 3 M.B.A. seminar in enterprise risk management. Guest speaker for the Nov. 3 event is Steve D’Arcy, president of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

For more information, call Mary Ellen Nossaman of the Center for Insurance Studies, at 657-278-7296 or mnossaman@fullerton.edu.

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