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FeaturesThe way ahead
With the theme of this year’s FERMA forum being the future of risk management, Lee Coppack looks at how the risk manager’s role is evolving in Europe
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FeaturesAre risk models irrelevant?
They couldn’t save investment banks from extinction so what value are financial risk models? Nathan Skinner summarises the views of participants in this month’s debate
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FeaturesWhat do you know?
Managing risk information successfully has become a priority for European companies. Graham Buck asks what a risk information system needs to be effective for everyone within the organisation
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Seeing risk: Floods
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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Catastrophe risk management using multiple models
While catastrophe models follow a similar overall approach to risk assessment, there can be wide variations in results, leaving users to question which is the most appropriate. By Atul Khanduri
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FeaturesThat uncertain feeling
All measurements are made because somebody, somewhere, needs information. This information is often used to enable decisions to be made. In order to minimise risk, these decisions must be reliable, says John Hurll
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FeaturesAchieving a share of the marketing mind
David Abrahams considers the ways and means of introducing risk thinking to marketing colleagues in difficult times
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FeaturesStrategic planning to reduce flood impact across Europe
On 26 November 2007, the new European Directive on the assessment and management of flood risks entered into force. For the first time, EU legislation requires its members to plan strategically to reduce the adverse consequences of flood events on human health, economic activities, the environment and cultural heritage. ...
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FeaturesThe Black Swan slain
Developing futures scenarios is a strategic risk management technique for considering what could happen in the future and its possible impact on a company’s objectives. The goal is to establish the basis for managing uncertain or unknown events.By Scott Randall
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FeaturesEssential criteria for the creation of reliable cyber insurance
If there is valuable data, you can guarantee threats to its security will not be far behind
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FeaturesA framework to restore confidence
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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FeaturesThe changing face of corporate defence: Part 1
Sean Lyons asks to what extent the corporate world is preparing itself for defending the interests of all its stakeholders
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FeaturesChallenges grow more sophisticated
Scenario planning can build capacity to adapt to large-scale political shocks
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FeaturesEurope continues to pursue offenders
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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FeaturesWhat is risk management?
Risk management is a way of dispelling the fog of uncertainty in which we live, says H Felix Kloman
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Steel Industry Loss, Reinsurance Gain
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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Transforming Science into Business Application
David Bresch is head of the global atmospheric perils group within the catastrophe perils unit of Swiss Re and serves as chief modeller for all perils. He is also climate advisor to the board of Swiss Re. He talks to Catastrophe Risk Management about how science can support reinsurance. By ...
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Regulation, risk and global strategy
The need for EU-based insurers to develop and implement an enterprise risk management strategy in response to Solvency II was one of the topics at the International Insurance Society (IIS) 43rd annual seminar in Berlin in July. Jean-Paul Louisot reports
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Is defending personal injury claims a no brainer?
Sean McGahan suggests that cutting the CRAP can lead to courtroom success
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Looking after the paperwork
Losing vital documents in a fire or other disaster can slow down business recovery, warns Kirsten Rix
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