This document is the best thing COSO has published in years. I mean… ever… The decision-led framing is genuine, not cosmetic. The practical guidance is actionable. The critique of documentation-heavy ERM is honest. It’s still a COSO document, which means it carries legacy baggage: risk appetite as a meaningful construct, the five-component framework as the… Continue reading Alex Sidorenko review of the new COSO ERM Guidance 2026
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How risk management turned into a meaningless ritual
In 1946, mathematicians at Los Alamos developed Monte Carlo simulation to model nuclear reactions under uncertainty. By the 1990s, sophisticated mathematical approaches to risk helped win Nobel Prizes and generate billions in financial markets. In 1998, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) showed us the limitations of risk models. Today? Many organizations have reduced risk management to… Continue reading How risk management turned into a meaningless ritual
