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Balance cost against value
FERMA president Marie-Gemma Dequae stressed the need to balance the cost of implementing global enterprise risk management and possible ISO certification requirements against the benefits
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AnalysisFlooding brings pressure to benchmark claims
In the aftermath of the UK’s disastrous summer flooding, parts of the insurance industry have called on the Association of British Insurers (ABI) to publish claims benchmarking figures
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US benchmark study
Good e-mail security produces tangible benefits, but ‘best in class’ companies are in the minority.A recent US report on the costs and losses, including data leakage, associated with e-mail shows that companies' experience varies widely. Despite increased e-mail traffic and more sophisticated attacks, best in class companies decreased the loss ...
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Opportunities from climate change
Climate change is creating new business opportunities for companies. However, a recent review of sustainability reports suggests that companies are not taking full advantage.Generally those companies that do report on opportunities focus on the area of carbon credits. However, companies that anticipate regulatory developments and changes in consumer demand, and ...
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Life and death realities
Stephen Carver, a managing partner at ALS, used the history of NASA’s space programme to illustrate the pressures and poor decisions that led to the Challenger and Columbia disasters
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AnalysisManaging REACH
The University of Hull is the only university in Europe to offer an accredited postgraduate course in the management of REACH
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Environmental risk: Think globally, insure locally
There has been much activity in the past 18 months as the European insurance market has acted to address new obligations arising from the EU’s Environmental Liability Directive
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Immigrant workers - Don't miss the opportunity
Immigration constitutes as much of a risk for European business as it does an opportunity
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XL launches cross border
XL Insurance chose the first day of the FERMA Forum to launch its new products for multinational companies
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Discrimination still rife in UK
Last year, claims of sexual discrimination rose by 2,524 to 14,250 and racial discrimination cases increased by 786 to 4,103 in the UK. Only 86,083 of the 115,039 claims made were disposed of, leaving 28,956 claims unresolved. The Chartered Management Institute has responded with guidelines to help organisations put diversity ...
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NEDS name top risks
A recent report names the top ten risks keeping non-executive directors (NEDS) awake at night as: health and safety, market risk, financial risk (including financial crime), environmental, implementation of large complex projects, high turnover of staff, pensions, knowledge of industry, speed of critical decision making, and organised crime.The report, Why ...
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Living longer, costing more
Continuing increases in life expectancy have caused growing concern at the financial burden faced by occupational pension schemes and their sponsors. New insurance and investment-based products have been launched to help schemes manage the risks of future increases. But Mercer Human Resource Consulting warns that companies should take steps to ...
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Business benefits from compliance
UK-based foreign private issuers are starting to see business benefits from their first year's compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act. But in many cases the process has been time and cost intensive, with considerable room for improvement, according to a survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. ...
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Brownfield housing – who pays?
As many as two-thirds of the three million new affordable homes pledged by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown are likely to be built on former industrial land, including former landfill sites. But at present there is no clarity over who would be held liable for the consequences of contamination created ...
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Recalls are a turn-off
As authorities report soaring numbers of recall and safety reports, their effectiveness in terms of consumer safety seems to be diminishing
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AnalysisReputation – what does it mean?
Northern Rock is not the first financial crisis to prompt headlines talking of damage to reputation
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AnalysisThe future of European employment practices liability?
Dicrimination, harassment and unfair dismissal claims are no longer a US only issue. But to what extent are they really an issue for European employers?
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AnalysisAre firms prepared for emerging risks?
Fortune 1000 companies may not be taking a long term view of risk management and preparing accordingly for emerging risks
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AnalysisFarmers as risk managers: lessons from this summer
A bad year for agriculture has exposed the need for business continuity plans
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AnalysisTravel risk assessments
Employers appear to be failing in their duty of care to staff who travel for work
