Features – Page 4

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    Out of the frying pan?

    2009-05-06T00:00:00Z

    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

    2009-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Food producers should take all reasonable precautions and exercise due diligence

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    Managing product safety recalls

    2009-05-06T00:00:00Z

    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

    2009-05-06T00:00:00Z

    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?

    2009-02-28T00:00:00Z

    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

    2009-02-28T00:00:00Z

    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

    2009-02-28T00:00:00Z

    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

    2008-12-10T00:00:00Z

    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

    2008-12-10T00:00:00Z

    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

    2008-12-01T00:00:00Z

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

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    Everything changes, nothing changes

    2008-12-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2008-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Nathan Skinner chairs a discussion on risk management in insurance companies

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    Conflicted directors on thin ice

    2008-11-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2008-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Lee Coppack tracks the demise of a well established bank

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    Bad credit

    2008-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

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    The fight against money laundering

    2008-09-01T00:00:00Z

    ‘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

    2008-09-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2008-09-01T00:00:00Z

    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

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    Challenges for risk managers

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    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?

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    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