Features – Page 4

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    CEO INTERVIEW: Peter Harmer, chief executive, AON UK

    1 December 2008

    The downfall of AIG threw AON’s team into crisis management mode. But the broker remains confident that the turmoil will reveal new opportunities

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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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    Insuring against the downturn

    1 December 2008

    The economic downturn introduces new risks and emphasises old ones. Nathan Skinner investigates what is making companies cautious and how the insurance industry is responding

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    Paolo Rubini, director risk management, Telecom Italia & vice chairman, ANRA

    1 December 2008

    Nathan Skinner quizzes one of Italy’s top risk managers on the challenges to his profession in a tricky economic climate

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    Are you breaking the law?

    1 November 2008

    Nathan Skinner addresses the thorny problem of the legality of multinational insurance covers

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    A question of culture

    1 November 2008

    Richard Baker stresses the need to align risk culture with that of the organisation and suggests ways of developing an effective approach

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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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    Forgotten, but not gone?

    1 September 2008

    When cases of bird flu were widespread in 2005 and 2006, the risk of a worldwide human influenza pandemic was taken as a serious threat. While the threat has not receded, European companies may have let down their guard, says Graham Buck

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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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    Differentiating our view of cat risk

    1 September 2008

    Over estimating catastrophe risks is as bad as underestimating them, as both create additional costs. We must understand risk better than our competitors to grow, decrease costs and maximise returns. By Gero Michel

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    Challenges for risk managers

    6 June 2008

    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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    Managing conflict within the captive

    6 June 2008

    The introduction of more volatile risks into the captive strategy increases the risk of complex claims. Simon Kilgour and a panel of experts on captives consider potential disputes

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    A framework to restore confidence

    6 June 2008

    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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    Today's European risk manager

    6 June 2008

    Peter Joy looks at some of the findings of StrategicRisk’s Europe-wide survey of risk manager attitudes and concerns

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    Holistic security

    18 May 2008

    Despite the huge sums of money spent on network security, organisations appear incapable of protecting confidential data. A change of approach is required, argues Gordon Rapkin

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    More than money?

    6 May 2008

    Fraudsters may not be motivated by personal gain alone, say Julian Parker and Ed Wilding. Can offender profiling help to spot them?

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    Heading in the right direction?

    1 April 2008

    Beata Paxford fears that the rules governing insurance intermediaries in Poland may not have achieved the EC’s aims of a level playing field

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    In the wake of SocGen

    1 April 2008

    Yet another financial scandal has highlighted the weaknesses of some organisations’ internal control. Are companies failing to learn lessons from the past? Or has the operating environment changed so much that it is making these lessons irrelevant?

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    Exposures: An industry solution at last?

    1 April 2008

    The insurance industry is continuing its efforts to agree a standard for catastrophe exposure data. By Puneet Bhara