Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Risks 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 in Risks were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, three winners were selected.

Financial Transactions Using FINTECH during the Covid-19 Crisis in Bulgaria
By Ivanka Vasenska, Preslav Dimitrov, Blagovesta Koyundzhiyska-Davidkova, Vladislav Krastev, Pavol Durana and Ioulia Poulaki
Risks 2021, 9(3), 48; doi: org/10.3390/risks9030048

Automatic Indexation of the Pension Age to Life Expectancy: When Policy Design Matters
By Mercedes Ayuso, Jorge M. Bravo, Robert Holzmann and Edward Palmer
Risks 2021, 9(5), 96; doi: org/10.3390/risks9050096

Dataset Modelling of the Financial Risk Management of Social Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
By Elena G. Popkova and Bruno S. Sergi
Risks 2021, 9(12), 211; doi: org/10.3390/risks9120211

Each winner will receive CHF 400 and a chance to publish a paper in Risks in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of Risks 2022 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Risks.

Kind regards,
Risks Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Risks 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Risks Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Risks. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Grzegorz Zimon
Department of Finance, Banking, and Accountancy, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland
Research Interests: corporate finance management; control in SMEs; cost management; logistics; sustainability; risk management; economic security

Dr. Himchan Jeong
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Research Interests: actuarial science; predictive modeling; property and casualty insurance; regression

Dr. Guanming He
Durham University Business School, University of Durham, Durham, UK
Research Interests: corporate social responsibility; credit rating; executive compensation; financial analysts; financial reporting and disclosures; insider trading; institutional investors; market anomalies; risk management; taxes and business strategies

The Prize for Each Winner:
– CHF 300;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Risks in 2023 after peer review;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Risks Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Risks 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 in Risks were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Mogens Steffensen, have been selected.

Rank 1: 400CHF:

Nagging Predictors
By Ronald Richman and Mario V. Wüthrich
Risks 2020, 8(3), 83; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/risks8030083

Rank 2: 200CHF:

A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Distance Driven on the Probability of Car Accidents
By Jean-Philippe Boucher and Roxane Turcotte
Risks 2020, 8(3), 91; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/risks8030091

Financial Bubbles: A Study of Co-Explosivity in the Cryptocurrency Market
By Arianna Agosto and Alessia Cafferata
Risks 2020, 8(2), 34; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/risks8020034

Rank 3: 100CHF

A Generative Adversarial Network Approach to Calibration of Local Stochastic Volatility Models
By Christa Cuchiero, Wahid Khosrawi and Josef Teichmann
Risks 2020, 8(4), 101; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/risks8040101

Machine Learning in Least-Squares Monte Carlo Proxy Modeling of Life Insurance Companies
By Anne-Sophie Krah, Zoran Nikolić and Ralf Korn
Risks 2020, 8(1), 21; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/risks8010021

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Risks and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Mogens Steffensen, Risks

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Risks 2020 Best Paper Awards. All the papers published in 2019 in Risks were considered. The Evaluation Committee selected three winners based on the originality and significance of the papers as well as the citations and downloads in 2020.

First Award:

Measuring and Allocating Systemic Risk
By Markus K. Brunnermeier and Patrick Cheridito
Risks 2019, 7(2), 46; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/risks7020046

Second Award:

Predicting Motor Insurance Claims Using Telematics Data—XGBoost versus Logistic Regression
By Jessica Pesantez-Narvaez, Montserrat Guillen and Manuela Alcañiz
Risks 2019, 7(2), 70; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks7020070

Third Award:

Pricing Options and Computing Implied Volatilities using Neural Networks By Shuaiqiang Liu, Cornelis W. Oosterlee and Sander M. Bohte
Risks 2019, 7(1), 16; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/risks7010016

The winners (each corresponding author) will receive an award of 400 CHF, 200 CHF and 100 CHF, a certificate, and an opportunity to publish free of charge in Risks before 31 December 2021, after the normal peer-review procedure.

On behalf of the evaluation committee, I congratulate the winners of Risks 2020 Best Paper Awards. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the authors for their contributions to Risks.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Mogens Steffensen, Risks

Dear Authors,

I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Best Paper Awards. Two research articles were selected for this award. All papers published in 2018 in Risks were considered. In determining the winners, the Evaluation Committee based their decision on the originality and significance of the papers as well as the citations and downloads in 2019.

The first prize article is:

“Individual Claims History Simulation Machine” by Andrea Gabrielli and Mario V. Wüthrich
Link: https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/2227-9091/6/2/29

The second prize article is:

“Credit Risk Analysis using Machine and Deep Learning Models” by Peter Martey Addo, Dominique Guegan and Bertrand Hassani.
Link: https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/2227-9091/6/2/38

Prizes:

The winners (corresponding authors) will receive a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Risks, after the normal peer-review procedure. The winners will receive the following:

– First Award (one paper): 500 CHF
– Second Award (one paper): 300 CHF

Congratulations to the authors of these outstanding papers!

Prof. Dr. Mogens Steffensen
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Risks 2019 Travel Awards for Postdoctoral students and PhD students. These awards will support travel for one postdoctoral fellow and one PhD student to present their research, in poster or oral presentation formats, at a scientific conference in 2019. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Mogens Steffensen.

Candidates’ Requirements:

• Postdoctoral Fellows (within three years of receiving PhD) or PhD students involved in research on insurance and financial risk management.
• Will present their own, original work as a poster or a presentation at the conference in 2019 for which the travel award application is being made.

Applicants Should Provide:

• Outline of current and future work (maximum 500 words).
• Curriculum vitae, including a complete list of publications.
• The conference to be attended, a copy of the abstract and acceptance letter or anticipated date of decision.
• Current grant funding and travel budget, if any, and why the applicant would like the support of Risks.
• A letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director or department head.

The Awards consist of 800 SWISS FRANCS EACH, and may be used for registration, travel, or accommodation. The awardee must provide a copy of the page in the conference program showing the abstract/presentation and meeting badge after attending the conference.

Please apply online (https://0-www-mdpi-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/journal/risks/awards) before 30 November 2018. The winners will be announced by the end of December 2018. And feel free to forward this email to potentially interested colleagues.

We are looking forward to receiving your applications!

Dear colleague,

I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Risks Travel Award, given toone outstanding PhD Student. We have selected Ms. Silvana Pesenti from CassBusiness School, University of London (London, UK) as this year’s recipient.

Ms. Silvana Pesenti works on the theory of uncertainty and sensitivity analysis with applications to insurance and financial risk management. She will present her research at the 10th Conference in Actuarial Science & Finance on May 30–June 3, 2018 in Samos, Greece.

Congratulations to Mr. Silvana Pesenti and thanks to all those who applied.

Mogens Steffensen
Editor-in-Chief, Risks

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural Risks Travel Award, given to one outstanding post-doctoral researcher. We have selected Dr. Héloïse Labit Hardy from UNSW Australia as this year’s recipient.

Dr. Hardy works on longevity insurance and mortality modeling, more specifically on mortality heterogeneity, cause-of-death mortality and population models. She will present her research at the 31st International Congress of Actuaries in 2018 in Berlin.

Congratulations to Dr. Hardy and thanks to all who applied.

Mogens Steffensen
Editor-in-Chief, Risks