Features – Page 11

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    Risk engineering

    1 September 2008

    In a competitive environment, preventing loss is vital. Nathan Skinner garners the thoughts of five risk managers on the subject

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    Delivering the promise

    13 June 2008

    Nathan Skinner runs his eye over the multitude of risks faced by companies who neglect ethical behaviour

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    Challenges for risk managers

    6 June 2008

    How are European organisations dealing with corporate governance issues? And what is the impact on the risk manager’s role? Nathan Skinner investigates

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    Good for you?

    6 June 2008

    Confused by health claims on foods? If so, you are not alone. Research commissioned by the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) suggests that generally many consumers are confused by such claims. Laura Bellfield looks at what the EC plans to do about it

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    A framework to restore confidence

    6 June 2008

    After the recent events in the banking sector, more financial services firms may turn to enterprise risk management, says Gordon Burnes

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    Capricious fate and human folly

    6 June 2008

    Risk managers could learn some valuable lessons from the ancient world, says Andrew Leslie

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    Today's European risk manager

    6 June 2008

    Peter Joy looks at some of the findings of StrategicRisk’s Europe-wide survey of risk manager attitudes and concerns

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    Holistic security

    18 May 2008

    Despite the huge sums of money spent on network security, organisations appear incapable of protecting confidential data. A change of approach is required, argues Gordon Rapkin

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    More than money?

    6 May 2008

    Fraudsters may not be motivated by personal gain alone, say Julian Parker and Ed Wilding. Can offender profiling help to spot them?

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    Protecting your rights worldwide

    6 May 2008

    Jackie Maguire and Sue Ratcliffe provide a guide to global IP protection

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    CRO: hero or villain?

    6 May 2008

    As many companies move to recruit a CRO, Mike Wilkinson reviews the key issues organisations must consider to ensure they make the right appointment

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    Creating value

    6 May 2008

    John Abbott pleads for a more enlightened corporate attitude to risk management

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    Challenges grow more sophisticated

    6 May 2008

    Scenario planning can build capacity to adapt to large-scale political shocks

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    The Hayward fault: Is it America’s most dangerous?

    1 April 2008

    A repeat of the 1868 Hayward fault California earthquake today would have enormous consequences. Property worth more than $500 billion and approximately 5 million people in six surrounding counties would suffer badly from such a quake. By Thomas Brocher and other members of the 1868 Hayward Earthquake Alliance

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    Business interruption in the land of earthquakes

    1 April 2008

    A large Japanese earthquake could have a devastating effect on the continuity of critical industries in the country and their earnings. By Dennis Kuzak and Masanori Kobayashi

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    Talking about modelling

    1 April 2008

    The cost of homeowners’ insurance is a very sensitive subject in US coastal states, and the role that catastrophe models may play in helping underwriters determine rates is bringing them under increasing scrutiny from politicians. By Lee Coppack

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    Perspective on financial terrorism and insurance

    1 April 2008

    With thousands of properties spread across the globe, HSBC has a significant exposure to terrorism and experience of damage to its City of London offices from an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb in 1993. By Peter Walker

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    Europe continues to pursue offenders

    1 April 2008

    Flouting European unfair competition rules is becoming increasingly costly. But some companies still do not seem to be taking the message on board

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    Changing work patterns

    1 April 2008

    Simon Norris argues that a self-regulating approach, in which staff are free to organise and manage their own time in a responsible way, can offer more benefits to employers than taking a heavy-handed

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    Driving an integrated approach to governance risk and compliance

    15 February 2008

    If people responsible for compliance are operating within silos, there may well be areas of neglect, warns Paul Pilkington