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Risk Management (RM) constitutes a very recent achievement for the actuarial culture and profession, especially if compared to the long history of actuarial mathematics. Why so recent? An appropriate answer calls for some remarks about traditional features of the actuarial sciences.
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For an extensive review of the early contributions to actuarial mathematics and insurance techniques, the reader can refer to Haberman (1996).
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Pitacco, E. (2020). Introduction. In: ERM and QRM in Life Insurance. Springer Actuarial(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49852-8_1
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