All Archive articles – Page 11
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Assurance Standards
A new report, Assurance Standards Briefing, published by AccountAbility and KMPG Sustainability in the Netherlands, concludes that:
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Assessing terrorism risk
A new security and terrorism assessment programme (SATAPTM) offers companies specific information on their exposure to terrorism risk
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Companies still ignoring asbestos
Most UK employers are still doing nothing to stem the risks of asbestos in the workplace, despite new legal requirements
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Around Europe
News and comments from the Federation of European Risk Management Associations
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Take a Strategic Approach
Martin James urges European companies to take a cohesive approach to meeting Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and to focus on longer-term issues of governance
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Retrospective: Andrew Cornish looks back
On the agenda in June 2004 when Andrew became chairman was the resolution - soon successfully accomplished - of the proposal by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for the regulation of risk manage
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Programme for AGERS Conference
The 16th conference of the Spanish Risk Managers' Association (AGERS) takes place in May, after a year which saw some devastating natural catastrophes, the disastrous typhoon season in the Caribbean a
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Increased terrorist activity
Increased terrorist activity is making the world a riskier place in which to do business, according to Aon's 2005 terrorism risk map
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Accounting for staff in a crisis
Survive's next crisis management special interest group workshop on 23 June will focus on developing appropriate policies and procedures for managing and communicating with employees in the aftermath
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Conference Exhibition 2005
An important feature of AIRMIC's annual conference, which this year takes place at the Brighton Centre from 13-15 June, is its exhibition
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Looking forward
Strategic Review - The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) has begun a strategic review to decide how the Institute should develop over the next five years
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Educating the risk practitioner
Risk management education needs to be within a structured framework and add value Carolyn Halpin writes.
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Publications
Catastrophe Modeling: A New Approach to Managing Risk by Patricia Grossi and Howard Kunreuther, managing editors Springer 2005.
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Predicting the Unpredictable
Insurance professionals and risk managers know well the typical areas of loss
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New Madrid Warning
After a magnitude 41 earthquake from the New Madrid fault shook eastern Arkansas and western Tennessee on 10 February 2005, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reminded people living in the region that th
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Shipbuilders' Losses
The London insurance market has set up an initiative to tackle the incidence of shipbuilders' losses which have cost underwriters around $700 million
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Uncertainty Hovers over US Terrorism Insurance
Failure to renew the US Terrorism Risk Insurance Act would jeopardise availability of insurance for terrorist acts
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Global Warming and Extreme Weather Events
The blockbuster movie of the summer of 2004, The Day After Tomorrow, popularised the public's conventional assumptions regarding how global warming will manifest - as a global increase in severe or ev
