All Feature articles – Page 7

  • Features

    Dealing with economic downturn

    6 May 2009

    is risk management being seen as an expendable cost? Or are the skills, tools and information at the disposal of the risk manager exactly what companies turn to?

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    Corruption risks on the rise

    6 May 2009

    There is probably no more corruption in the world now than there was 30 years ago, but corruption related risks for companies have substantially increased – particularly over the last decade – warns Robert Barrington

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    Know your business

    6 May 2009

    Identifying your suppliers and customers is crucial if you want to avoid international corruption scandals and legal penalties. Michael Short has the answers.

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    Gustaf Hamilton and Charlotte Barnekow

    6 May 2009

    Perhaps the risk management profession is expected to cover too much. There should be limits set about what fits into a risk manager's job description

  • Case Studies

    Case Study: AZ Electronic Materials

    6 May 2009

    Building resilience into every product. Changing business culture can be an important part of the process

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    Risk in a recession

    28 February 2009

    Risk is following hard on the heels of the recession, warns Nathan Skinner

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    What do you know?

    28 February 2009

    Managing risk information successfully has become a priority for European companies. Graham Buck asks what a risk information system needs to be effective for everyone within the organisation

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    Rome II: New Year New rules

    28 February 2009

    EU regulation Rome II should bring greater certainty over liability issues. Wendy Hopkins and Stephen Turner write

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    Can you dig for wealth and be green?

    28 February 2009

    Extractive industries and sustainability do not go hand in hand. Or do they? We asked Total and Rio Tinto for their views

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    The cost of compliance

    28 February 2009

    While businesses may greet EU proposals for new regulation with a universal groan, Andrew Williams asks – is the need for compliance actually an aid for risk managers in establishing better systems and practices?

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    Taking a united approach

    28 February 2009

    Alex Kiffen reports on a recent round table discussion on how to deal with catastrophe and how to prevent it

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    Getting ready for The 31000

    28 February 2009

    The new ISO standard is meeting with a mixed response from risk managers, says Neil Hodge

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    An integrated approach

    27 February 2009

    Aymeric Boyer-Vidal, GDF-Suez’s director of audit and risk discusses embedding enterprise risk management and handling a crisis

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    Stefan Sigulla

    1 November 2008

    The ex-head of German risk management association DVS describes his path to the top

  • Features

    That uncertain feeling

    1 November 2008

    All measurements are made because somebody, somewhere, needs information. This information is often used to enable decisions to be made. In order to minimise risk, these decisions must be reliable, says John Hurll

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    ERM for insurers

    1 November 2008

    Nathan Skinner chairs a discussion on risk management in insurance companies

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    A question of culture

    1 November 2008

    Richard Baker stresses the need to align risk culture with that of the organisation and suggests ways of developing an effective approach

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    Conflicted directors on thin ice

    1 November 2008

    Danielle Harris warns that new UK rules could force directors to stand down or risk possible claims

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    Claims waiting to happen?

    1 November 2008

    Every year, traffic accidents around the world cause about 1.2m fatalities and 50m injuries. But there are other victims, say Monika Gruber and Marion Schwehr, as insurers are becoming

  • Features

    Are you breaking the law?

    1 November 2008

    Nathan Skinner addresses the thorny problem of the legality of multinational insurance covers