Message from Chairman

After going through some old notes, I realized that MARIM has been in existence for 16 years with the continued support from past and present members. As time flies, we have collectively seen the vast development of risk and insurance management happening around us in Malaysia and our peers in other part of the world. We also have gone through few challenging real risk experience domestically or worldwide connected to health risk pandemic – SARS, Bird Flu, H1N1, natural calamity – Tsunami, tremors, earthquake, flood and landslide, corporate scandals such as Enron, Satyam and Subprime. The question going round in my mind is how we as the corporation, public sectors and individual coping with the impact of the risk? Is our risk management program works for us? Is our insurance coverage responded to the losses suffered?

     Looking back and predicting the future, I truly believe that risk and insurance management has revolves with time though the perils and hazards manifested may change with time. So do the need for a platform of networking for risk and insurance managers so that we can continue with exchanging views, ideas and best practices across respective organization.

    As such, MARIM remains relevance by offering a single platform for risk and insurance managers to discuss matters of interest so that we can collectively avoid doing the same mistake of others. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest (Confucius)

    Moving forward, MARIM will continue to play our major role in promoting best practice risk management by organizing structured seminar and workshops on risk and insurance management apart from participating in the development of Malaysian Standard on Risk Management following the final discussion of the ISO 31000 standard for Risk management. To share common risk and insurance issues across the globe, MARIM is planning to run our international risk management conference in Year 2010 that will benefit the members and the country in one go.

     As such, I urged all members to give your undivided support to the Exco and participate in all our future events that will be announced from time to time. Let’s make MARIM a solid risk and insurance management association that we can be proud off by assisting members and the country in managing our risks diligently. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.(Mahatma Ghandi)