Risk Management
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Global supply chains still at risk with lessons not learnt, warns Marsh
Despite last year’s devastating run of catastrophic events that caused huge business interruption across the world many organisations have failed…
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Beware ninja trends and infobesity warns trendspotting futurist
Risk managers must be aware of the opportunities and risks associated with ‘ninja trends’ that develop so slowly over a…
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Lords risk select committee needed to drive agenda says academic
A leading academic and government policy advisor has called on risk professionals to help lobby for the creation of a…
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AIR develops new CBI modelling tool for risk managers
AIR is expanding its suite of Catastrophe Risk Engineering (CRE) solutions to help risk managers better understand and manage global…
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Evonik fire sparks fresh supply chain fears as RIMS gathers
As the US risk management industry gathered for its annual RIMS conference this week a recent explosion at a German…
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Ferma launches latest survey to unveil state of risk management across Europe
Ferma launched its sixth Benchmarking Survey this week with the aim of getting a truly pan-European view on key risk…
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Failed risk management strategies must change after 2011’s cat crisis—Marsh
Companies must re-examine their risk management strategies as the spate of severe catastrophes last year revealed weaknesses at many organisations…
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Marsh report reveals onshore captives and alternative structures on the rise
The number of captives domiciled onshore has risen over the last decade to register a near even split in preference…
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Global reinsurance capital down 3% but rises at leading players—Aon Benfield
Despite heavy catastrophe losses Aon Benfield has estimated that total global reinsurer capital was down by only 3% in 2011…
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Arab Spring sparks demand for greater transparency and accountability in Gulf
The Arab Spring may not have spread to the Gulf region in any meaningful way apart from some serious civil…
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Retention levels key to local insurance market development agree experts
Insurance market experts gathered for the MultaQa conference in Qatar last month agreed that growth potential for the GCC countries…
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Growth markets ‘fraught with greater risk’—Hartwig
As the share of global GDP contributed by emerging nations nudges ever closer to outstripping that of the mature industrialised…
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Education tops agenda for Maltese Risk Management Association at formal launch
The Malta Association of Risk Management (MARM) was formerly launched on March 30 with education a key objective in its…
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Countdown to the Olympics-comment
The Olympics is a wonderful event that brings the whole world together in a spirit of friendly competition and unity…
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London firms need to wake up to Olympics’ travel and IT threats
Business continuity experts in the UK are trying to drum up interest among London businesses as the city prepares for…
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Risk managers and brokers need to sharpen up global programmes act
Insurance regulators are turning their attention from insurers to risk managers and brokers as they attempt to tighten up supervision…
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Portuguese companies fear rising protectionism—comment
Portuguese risk managers and their firms are increasingly concerned about the rising threat of protectionism as some of their most…
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Russia tops ranking of riskiest countries for mining companies
With the exception of virtual no-go areas Venezuela and Zimbabwe, Russia is the riskiest country in which mining companies can…
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Airmic report suggests buyers confused over environmental risk warns expert
An Airmic report suggests that UK risk managers are still unaware of the full range of risks they face from…
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Shipping industry faces many new risk management challenges, says report
Despite hugely improved safety records the maritime industry faces many new risk management challenges as it learns to cope with…