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InterviewsChairman Interview: Paul Howard
Paul Howard, Airmic chairman, talks to StrategicRISK about his tenure at the helm of the UK’s risk and insurance management association.
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Members back employers’ liability tracing
Although the change of government has created some uncertainty about immediate developments, Airmic has told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that its members overwhelmingly support the creation of an office to trace historical employers’ liability insurers.Members also generally favour the idea of an employers’ liability insurance bureau, along ...
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Risk architecture: FIRM foundations
The way companies structure their risk governance and reporting varies materially, depending on the type of business and level of regulation. Yet, even in public companies that must follow formal corporate governance codes, soft skills such as good communication and persuasiveness remain essential to the risk management process.This is the ...
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Between a rock and a hard place
Navigating the global casualty insurance market is not for the faint-hearted and has been the subject of an Airmic benchmarking survey and additional research by the insurer Chartis. They found that careful insurer selection is essential to satisfy three key areas of concern among risk managers in the current market ...
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Airmic academy gets to the board
Directors’ and officers’ cover is one aspect of insurance close to the hearts of board members. Between now and mid-September, Airmic Academy is offering three half-day education sessions on the subject that could help members take advantage of that opening to top management. The three sessions are ‘D&O –Explaining it ...
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Not so dusty
Airmic’s travel special interest group has created an Eyjafjallajökull ash cloud resource for members, which is available on the Airmic website (www.airmic.com). It is collating relevant information from association partners and other sources, and offers an opportunity for members to exchange information.
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AnalysisMarine piracy – the risk is growing
The failure of anyone to make a sustained impact on Somalian piracy is leading to increasing risk
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InterviewsRisk managers give their verdict
Insurers and brokers are rated on their levels of service in StrategicRISK's annual risk manager survey. See the results first here
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Online onlyISO chair “surprised” that volcano didn’t appear on risk registers
Ash cloud is another example of the changing risks in an increasingly global economy, says Kevin Knight
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Interviews
The burden of disclosure
Making sure they have disclosed all material facts to underwriters is becoming more onerous and time consuming, say AIRMIC members, while lack of clarity about the requirements leaves them, in many cases, with the possibility of a contested claim. In response, AIRMIC is now running a project to try to ...
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AIRMIC PortfolioRisk events
A joint research project between CASS Business School and AIRMIC will help to close the gap between risk management theory and practice by identifying “risk events” and drawing lessons from them for risk managers and their companies. The initial results will be revealed at the AIRMIC annual conference in June. ...
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AIRMIC PortfolioBad behaviour
Employees behaving badly, controlling M&A costs, information security and financial crime, the fatal accident and how to persuade the CEO that risk management does make a difference. All these are among the workshops planned for the annual AIRMIC conference taking place in Manchester from 14-16 June under the theme ...
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AIRMIC PortfolioSolvency II and business
The Solvency II reforms as currently proposed would reduce the amount of insurance capacity available to UK businesses and put up the cost of cover, AIRMIC has warned ahead of final proposals from European insurance and pensions regulations, CEIOPS, on the implementation of the Directive. AIRMIC reiterated its support ...
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Employers' liability consultation
AIRMIC’s insurance steering group is planning to canvas members’ views as the basis of a a response to the consultation by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) on its proposals for an employers’ liability insurance bureau and an employers' liability tracing office and has been canvassing The measures are ...
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InterviewsAirmic vision launched
Lloyd’s chief executive predicts tighter capacity and higher prices
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InterviewsAIRMIC podcast gives career advice
Download the podcast and hear insights into essential components of career success and trends in risk management recruitment
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InterviewsYesterday, today, and tomorrow
Welcome to our very special ten-year anniversary edition of StrategicRISK
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InterviewsNo time to stand still
From gentleman’s club to modern trade association, AIRMIC is very different from what it was. Its chief executive John Hurrell looks back at the past ten years and predicts more change to come
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FeaturesA good name? Priceless
Essential yet intangible, and so easy to lose, reputation must be a top priority for any organisation's risk manager
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FeaturesA whimper and a bang
For European risk managers, the first decade of the third millennium began with the event that didn’t happen, the year 2000 or Y2K bug. As the decade continued, it brought fresh challenges to European risk managers, writes Lee Coppack
