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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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    The changing face of corporate defence: Part 1

    18 May 2008

    Sean Lyons asks to what extent the corporate world is preparing itself for defending the interests of all its stakeholders

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    Managing supply in an outsourced world

    6 May 2008

    Procurement and risk management need to team up over modern supply chains, say Alex Hindson and Finlay Murray

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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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    Bringing brush fire risk under control

    1 April 2008

    In the last decade US brush fire exposures have nearly tripled and the frequency of such events is clearly on the rise. By Amy Block

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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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    UK flood claim and counter-claim

    6 March 2008

    There have been times in the past year when the British public have witnessed scenes like those gunfighters at the OK Corral where insurers have stood their ground and called on Parliament to do something about flooding – or else. By Sam Elliott

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    Effective Disaster Recovery

    17 December 2007

    If fire, terrorists or hostile aliens zap your data centre, can you be back online before your business collapses? A good IT disaster recovery plan will be vital, as Carl Bradbury explains.

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    Post-Katrina Litigation, Shows Need for Clarity

    14 December 2007

    Hurricane Katrina was the single largest loss in the history of the insurance industry. Its place in the annals of insurance is also secure by virtue of it being the single most litigated loss on record. By Claire Wilkinson

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    UK Summer Floods Highlight Gaps in Flood Maps

    14 December 2007

    Flood maps in the United Kingdom provide a good overview and are relatively comprehensive compared to flood maps for other countries, which tend to focus mainly on high risk areas. However, the summer 2007 floods highlighted a need for more information on urban and rural drainage, small rivers and ...

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    Culture that Avoids Disaster

    14 December 2007

    Six key areas of organisational culture are essential to prevent catastrophic incidents like the Texas City refinery explosion and loss of the space shuttle Columbia. By Scott Berger

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    How Building Codes Reduce Catastrophe Losses

    14 December 2007

    Buildings completed under the requirements of a new Florida building code withstood hurricane winds in 2004 and 2005 while neighbouring, older properties were destroyed. But it should not take a disaster for our communities to adopt, implement and enforce the building safety codes that save lives every day. By Richard ...

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    Getting a Handle on Cargo

    14 December 2007

    Cargo accumulations. Hard to understand. Harder still to quantify. Until now. By Herbie Lloyd

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    CRO interview

    1 November 2007

    In this month’s StrategicRISK interview, Nathan Skinner probes the risk management strategies of steel giant ArcelorMittal

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    Steel Industry Loss, Reinsurance Gain

    31 October 2007

    The discovery that he definitely did not want a career in the steel industry propelled a young graduate mechanical engineer in North Carolina to New York City and into the arms of the insurance industry. By Lee Coppack

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    Reducing Supply Chain Risk from Extreme Events

    31 October 2007

    Businesses today outsource many operations to partners, many of whom may be critically exposed to extreme events and beyond of the control of the firm’s risk management programmes. By Marc Lehmann and Kenneth Travers

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    Unchecked Risks That Can Lead to Catastrophe

    31 October 2007

    Asset management, planned maintenance and procurement have the potential to create disaster if are not treated with the respect they deserve. By Tony Prior

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    How Planning for Terrorist Attacks Worked for Hurricanes

    31 October 2007

    Major incident training put in place by a large commercial property investor because of terrorist attacks proved its value in the face of US hurricanes. By John Smith

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    There's more to it than 'badging in'

    1 October 2007

    If your security department is bottom of the heap, the organisation is rife with an ‘open’ culture, and IT has pinched the business continuity issues, you can still conduct a fight back. Peter Speight invokes Turnbull and SOX to explain how

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    Risk without frontiers

    1 October 2007

    Love it or hate it, globalisation is the name of the game now for major European companies. How are StrategicRISK Benchmarking Club members viewing the challenges? Sue Copeman describes the results of our latest survey