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Aon buys WTW in $80bn mega-deal
The combined company, a technology-enabled global professional services firm focused on the areas of risk, retirement and health, will maintain its headquarters in London.
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No risk is an island – so we must communicate better
Risk management is changing, which means that those who work in the profession need to change too. Strategic Risk caught up with Anders Esbjörnsson, Group Risk Manager, Construction company NCC to find out why he thinks communication is critical and how an MBA helped transform his approach to risk
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Attending Brokerslink 2019?
Here’s our quickfire Q&A with José Manuel Fonseca on what to expect from this year’s event
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Lloyd’s reveals hundreds of harassment witnesses
An independent advisory group will be set up to ensure it is taking the right actions
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The hidden issue of risk calculations
Risk information isn’t always communicated on the same “playing field”. Information given to the boss may favour one solution over the other – and is the reason why most strategies fail to deliver expected results. But there are other hidden elements at play, writes Adrian Clements, international enterprise risk manager
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Defining your reputation risk
Reputational risk is not “one risk”, but rather a category of risks which may impact your reputation, so how should you define and manage it? Hans Læssøe, principal consultant at AKTUS and former risk manager at Lego Group has this advice
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The myths that hold risk managers back from making a difference at the top table
“I look after strategic risk and you look after operational risk”. When you place risk management into categories, you stop performing ERM and prevent yourself from helping the board make risk-intelligent decisions. Here’s Sarah Gordon’s (chief executive of Satarla) take on #ChangingRisk and influencing decision-making
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Risk culture or culture risk?
In this article, Business Olympian Group, director, Gavin Freeman, will try to unpack the meaning of “risk culture” and assess whether the role of risk teams is to measure risk culture or culture risk
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‘Delivering Brexit and uniting the country’:
Boris Johnson has been voted in as the UK’s new prime minster. But what does this mean for the country’s insurance industry?
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Three easy steps to ensure an optimal outcome for enterprise risk management
You have been asked to meet a deadline to accomplish a given goal for enterprise risk management in your organisation. What is the first thing you do? Carol Williams, enterprise risk management consultant and founder of ERM Insights
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16 essential questions to ask for effective scenario planning
Scenario planning can help executives better understand the impacts of new goals and objectives set out in the organisation’s strategic plans. Here’s how you can optimise your scenario planning, writes Carol Williams, enterprise risk management consultant and founder of ERM Insights
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Why risk managers must ensure staff mental wellbeing is high on the corporate agenda
Failure of employers to provide mental health support could damage productivity and business losses, QBE survey finds
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Want to make a difference in risk? Try adapting your soft skills
Dealing with the c-suite is becoming one of the most critical components of a risk manager’s job. And to play a bigger role in #ChangingRisk in their companies, risk managers need to develop critical soft skills, says François Malan, chief risk officer at Nexity
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The future is in the ‘radical risk management process’
Risk management is a mental process, not a technical one of data gathering, evaluation and reporting. Those who do nothing will just be exploited by those who constantly change and improve. So, swap tradition for a four-tiered ‘radical’ risk management process, writes Horst Simon of Risk Culture Builder
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How would you risk-manage the Ethiopian Airlines crash?
Investigations are on-going as to what caused the disaster but what has ensued so far are a range of crisis risks, from reputational damage to share price loss. Risk managers offer their views on how they would lessen the impact
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Lloyd’s under pressure to stamp out sexual harassment
After a devastating expose revealing a toxic culture in which sexual discrimination and harassment run rife in the Lloyd’s market, bosses have pledged to stamp it out.
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Pushing nat cats up the chain of command
CFOs are increasingly being held accountable for losses arising from nat cat events. Their best defence? To team-up with their risk manager
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Why the whole concept of risk appetite is nonsense and how to change it
The concept of risk-appetite has been around for years, yet so many risk practitioners still find themselves confused and unsure how to quantify, formalise and document it. Well, the short answer is you don’t need to. There is a better way, writes Alex Sidorenko, chief executive of Risk Academy
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Here to help, not hinder: shaping the future of risk
Backlit by our #ChangingRisk campaign, we quizzed Katie Moore, Vodafone’s senior group risk manager and ever-popular resident foodie, on how she would shape our industry’s future and how to challenge the misconceptions about who we really are