Features – Page 3

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    Europe continues to pursue offenders

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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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    What is risk management?

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2007-10-31T00:00:00Z

    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

    2007-10-31T00:00:00Z

    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

    2007-09-24T00:00:00Z

    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?

    2007-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Sean McGahan suggests that cutting the CRAP can lead to courtroom success

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    Looking after the paperwork

    2007-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Losing vital documents in a fire or other disaster can slow down business recovery, warns Kirsten Rix

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    Time for Review?

    2007-04-01T00:00:00Z

    The news that the recent UK high court judgment in Bartoline Limited v (1) Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance plc & (2) Heath Lambert Ltd (2006) may now be going to the Court of Appeal has created even more uncertainty in an already confused situation. John Cooper and Bob Martin ...

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    Risk Management Refocused

    2007-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Ben Davies warns of the danger that the practice of risk management will fail to help the achievement of project or business objectives, through a failure to focus on the actual management of risks.

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    From model output to price

    2006-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Sophisticated methodologies and processes to price catastrophe risk are paramount if reinsurance is to remain a reliable and stable form of capital for clients underwriting in catastrophe exposed area

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    Putting pop in the ERM bottle

    2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

    Lee Coppack reviews the enterprise risk management seminar held by StrategicRISK in conjunction with Protiviti.

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    Regulation and risk management

    2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

    Kevin Ludwick discusses how the compliance function fits into risk management in the financial services sector.

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    Reassurance or no assurance?

    2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

    Sean McGahan reviews recently enacted UK legislation on compensation.

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    EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ERM

    2006-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Sukhdev Bal analyses the success factors

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    A MARKET UNDER PRESSURE

    2006-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Peter Allen discusses the results of a quantitative survey of risk managers on how well the insurance market is meeting their needs

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    Reporting on risk

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Smart businesses have an approach to risk management which goes beyond compliance And corporate risk management reporting needs to play a key role in supporting both the risk process and the strategic

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    Shift up a gear

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Effective risk management is not an option in the 21st century, say Norman Sinclair and Man Cheung Governance and organisational effectiveness require it.

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    FOCUS ON THE PROCESSES

    2005-11-14T00:00:00Z

    Sue Copeman talks to Chris Lajtha

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    RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE BALANCE

    2005-11-14T00:00:00Z

    Organisations face the challenge of changing their view of risk management

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    Opportunity knocks for risk managers

    2005-04-20T00:00:00Z

    David Phillips and David Bishop say that risk managers could have a pivotal role in developing the Operating and Financial Review