Features – Page 4

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    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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    Picking up the pieces

    6 May 2009

    Have the high profile casualties of the finance sector strengthened the case for risk management, or merely exposed its limitations? Graham Buck looks at the evidence

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    Out of the frying pan?

    6 May 2009

    Using insurance to transfer a risk that you do not want to retain is fine. But you need to be sure that the insurers you are using are going to be there – solvent – should you need to call on them. Julian James explains

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    European food safety

    6 May 2009

    Food producers should take all reasonable precautions and exercise due diligence

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    Managing product safety recalls

    6 May 2009

    Ed Mitchell and Thomas Zanner explain how to deal with recalls in the food and drink industry

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    Telling it like it is

    6 May 2009

    Communication can be the difference between a good and badly handled product recall, says Julia Johnson

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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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    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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    Winds of change for agricultural risks

    10 December 2008

    Changing climate and commodity price trends are steering agricultural risk in a new direction. The result is a rethink of exposure, products and product design. By Thomas Heintz

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    Seeing risk: Floods

    10 December 2008

    The 2007 UK summer floods pushed flooding up the agenda for politicians and businesses alike. A year and a half later topographical maps and modelling technologies have improved to give us better tools to manage the risks. By Justin Butler

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    Emerging issues

    1 December 2008

    Nathan Skinner chairs a discussion on the issues that will be important for 2009 and beyond

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    Everything changes, nothing changes

    1 December 2008

    Risk management is by no means a new idea. Andrew Leslie, deputy editor, StrategicRISK, looks back at medieval Europe to see how merchants and traders managed their risk

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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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    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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    A grizzly end to Bear Stearns

    1 November 2008

    Lee Coppack tracks the demise of a well established bank

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    Bad credit

    31 October 2008

    Rating agencies need to clean up their act as regulation looms, says Neil Hodge

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    The fight against money laundering

    1 September 2008

    ‘Pre-wash, wash and spin-dry’ are the cycles that apply to a washing machine and to money laundering. It may appear odd to compare the two but they reflect a reality based in law and in history, explains Charlotte Gaudin

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    See no evil

    1 September 2008

    Is Google as squeaky clean as its users like to think? Lee Coppack considers privacy and trust, and looks at the risks that may lie in wait for the world’s favourite search engine

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    Why flood losses are increasing

    1 September 2008

    Exposure, the governing factor An almost explosive growth in the values of property in flood-prone areas and the much greater vulnerability of the things that people own are the main reasons for rising flood losses. By Wolfgang Kron