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Editor's LetterSR Q2 2025: Lost in translation?
From the Middle East to the North of England, conference season is in full swing. And so are the fascinating conversations around risk priorities and strategies. But if we hope to take what we’ve learnt to the board, we need to be speaking their language.
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Editor's LetterSR Q1 2025: Risk management – a kind of magic
I’m sure organisations would love to wave a wand and eliminate the latest geopolitical tension, cyberattack threat or supply chain disruption. But instead they have risk managers, who weave their own magic spells to navigate their businesses past the perils that lurk around every corner
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Editor's LetterSR Q4 2024: A resolution for change
Closing out another rollercoaster year, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and not exactly brimming with cheer. But risk managers are tougher than that. We continue to prove that this industry is the place for resilience, innovation and e ecting real change. Bring on 2025
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Editor's LetterSR Q3 2024: The best laid plans…
As risk managers, we spend lots of time preparing for the worst. And yet, preparation can’t protect you from everything. When disaster strikes, sometimes the best you can do is keep smiling – even if it is through gritted teeth – and carry on, logging lessons for next time.
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Editor's LetterSR Q2 2024: The great balancing act
Parenthood and risk management have a lot in common – both demand a superhuman ability to multitask, stay one step ahead, and keep a cool head. Every day is another challenge… but you wouldn’t change it for the world, right?
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Editor's LetterSR Q1 2024: It’s tough out there, but we’ve got this
It sometimes feels like the world is spinning faster, as we are bombarded with ever-more complex and intertwining threats. It is the risk professional’s job to manage and mitigate, while guiding senior management through – no easy task. But with the right tools and information, we can do this.
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Editor's LetterSR Q3 2023: Adapt or die
As the world of risk gets increasingly complex, there is a golden opportunity to elevate the profession beyond insurance buying, to strategic, value-adding, board-level ERM. Those risk managers who fail to step up and grab it with both hands may quickly become irrelevant.
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Editor's LetterBattling cyber assaults
The Wikileaks furore says two things to risk managers: digital information is never secret and be aware of cyber attacks
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Editor's LetterTaking over the reins
Taking the helm of a renowned business journal like StrategicRISK is an incredibly exciting opportunity
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Editor's LetterPromoting your profile
Recession has focused companies’ attention on risks, this is a big opportunity for the risk management community
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Editor's LetterPrinciples and contingents
Contingent commissions are totally against the European rules on anti-competitive activity
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Editor's LetterRecovery at a price
There is fear in the current recession – and fear breeds inaction.
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Editor's LetterDon’t put your faith in regulation
What went wrong in the well regulated and risk managed banking sector?
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Editor's LetterImproving, but could do better
Responsible investors can play a key role in encouraging some of the world’s biggest companies to improve their corporate social responsibility practices
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Editor's LetterTrustworthy - what, me?
Careless talk costs reputations – and it may be left to the risk manager to help pick up the pieces
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Editor's LetterWake-up Call
Jérôme Kerviel could be a name that joins that of Nick Leeson (Barings Bank) in the annals of ‘those who broke the bank’
