Features – Page 21
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FeaturesManaging supply in an outsourced world
Procurement and risk management need to team up over modern supply chains, say Alex Hindson and Finlay Murray
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FeaturesChallenges grow more sophisticated
Scenario planning can build capacity to adapt to large-scale political shocks
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FeaturesHow do coastal cities fare under rising flood risk?
Rising sea levels will amplify the flood risk in coastal cities like Miami, New York, Rotterdam and Guangzhou, while population increase and economic growth will increase the value of the assets at risk to new levels By Celine Herweijer and others
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FeaturesThe Hayward fault: Is it America’s most dangerous?
A repeat of the 1868 Hayward fault California earthquake today would have enormous consequences. Property worth more than $500 billion and approximately 5 million people in six surrounding counties would suffer badly from such a quake. By Thomas Brocher and other members of the 1868 Hayward Earthquake Alliance
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FeaturesBusiness interruption in the land of earthquakes
A large Japanese earthquake could have a devastating effect on the continuity of critical industries in the country and their earnings. By Dennis Kuzak and Masanori Kobayashi
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An engineer looks at cat models
Siamak Daneshvaran, senior vice president and director of engineering for Aon Re’s Impact Forecasting, talks to Catastrophe Risk Management. By Lee Coppack
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FeaturesWill changes in climate increase insured losses
The general effects of a global temperature increase they may contribute to a decrease in property risk in some places, while increasing it at others. By Dance Zurovac-Jevtic, Rebecca Cheetham and Caroline Daniell
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FeaturesTalking about modelling
The cost of homeowners’ insurance is a very sensitive subject in US coastal states, and the role that catastrophe models may play in helping underwriters determine rates is bringing them under increasing scrutiny from politicians. By Lee Coppack
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FeaturesBringing brush fire risk under control
In the last decade US brush fire exposures have nearly tripled and the frequency of such events is clearly on the rise. By Amy Block
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FeaturesThe financial consequences of natural disasters
There is significant value for the public sector to shift from a disaster relief approach – looking for financial support after an event – to one which includes the accumulation of funds and the spreading of risks before a loss occurs. By Reto Schnarwiler
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FeaturesExposures: An industry solution at last?
The insurance industry is continuing its efforts to agree a standard for catastrophe exposure data. By Puneet Bhara
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FeaturesPerspective on financial terrorism and insurance
With thousands of properties spread across the globe, HSBC has a significant exposure to terrorism and experience of damage to its City of London offices from an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb in 1993. By Peter Walker
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FeaturesNo more easy oil
The development of deep water fields, often in remote locations lacking infrastructure, poses new challenges to the offshore energy industry, which must operate facilities safely over 20 to 30 years in harsh environmental conditions. By Phil Thomas and David Brown
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FeaturesIn the wake of SocGen
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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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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FeaturesBreaking down the silos
Business continuity and risk management have both come from very different places, yet there are increasingly obvious similarities on how both disciplines are applied in practice, says Douglas Ure
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FeaturesPoland a steep learning curve but …
The second POLRISK conference provides an opportunity to look at how risk management is evolving, Poland’s corporate governance aspirations and rules governing intermediaries, and the risks and opportunities presented by Euro 2012
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FeaturesRisk management progresses
Rafal Rudnicki provides an overview on how risk management is evolving in Poland
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FeaturesThe revolving door that leads to nowhere
Andrzej S Nartowski looks at Poland's approach to corporate governance
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FeaturesHeading in the right direction?
Beata Paxford fears that the rules governing insurance intermediaries in Poland may not have achieved the EC’s aims of a level playing field
