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    Old and dynamic?

    20 April 2005

    Your HR department may be looking to recruit a workforce of young go-getters, but forthcoming equal treatment regulations will ban age discrimination Marian Bloodworth discusses what this means for UK

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    Bowing to the inevitable

    20 December 2004

    Change is in the air for corporate governance across the globe, and there are plenty of good reasons for that, says Kenneth McKenzie

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    Caught in the Regulator's Net?

    4 November 2004

    The summer been dominated by the threat of regulation of the insurance market and the changes that this may bring to many business operations in the UK

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    Shareholder activism

    15 September 2004

    With their ability to change whole boards, slap down fat cat pay deals, and put the brakes on overly ambitious and risky business strategies, institutional investors have become the scourge of corpora

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    A Rare Breed ?

    29 June 2004

    Growing demand for risk managers, especially in the financial sector, is revealing a shortage of people with the necessary degree of skill, writes Jessica McCallin

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    Disclosing The Facts

    29 June 2004

    New legislation will encourage UK companies to provide more information for stakeholders But, without compulsion, will anything change?

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    Honouring the Pensions promise

    10 June 2004

    The risk from defined benefit pension promises is inextricably linked to the sponsoring company's finances This was always the case but the accounting standard FRS17 has emphasised it in a way that ma

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    Sour Milk

    26 April 2004

    Lee Coppack looks at Parmalat's problems and at how they might have been detected sooner

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    Debt Mountaineering at ABB

    26 December 2003

    Lee Coppack discusses the problems that have eroded shareholder value for ABB

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    Pay, Benefits and Governance

    26 December 2003

    Corporate governance is a hot topic for multinational companies...

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    The black hole opens

    23 October 2003

    Neil Campbell recommends addressing pensions risks...

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    A Store of trouble

    22 October 2003

    What went wrong at Royal Ahold? Lee Coppack writes

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    Managing risk for good

    15 September 2003

    Lee Coppack outlines the risk challenges faced by charities

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    The Unfinished Agenda,

    28 April 2003

    Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Tyco are more than just the names of 2002.

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    Capturing Benefits

    12 March 2003

    Risk managers can include their profitable employee benefits risks within a captive insurer

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    Getting risk right

    10 January 2003

    Mark Fryer , talks to Adrian Leonard

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    Weak links?

    27 September 2002

    Your smaller business partners could be the weak link in your own risk management programme

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    Ignore Corporate Governance At Your Peril

    24 July 2002

    Investors need to be able to evaluate your corporate governance risk, says Amra Balic

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    Focusing On Sustainable Investment

    24 July 2002

    Philippe Spicher describes what the SiRi Group is doing to research and evaluate companies' social and environmental records

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    Only Senn To Be Green?

    24 July 2002

    Campaigning organisations remain resolutely unconvinced about the value of public-private partnerships says Jessica McCallin