Features – Page 6

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    Risk in a recession

    28 February 2009

    Risk is following hard on the heels of the recession, warns Nathan Skinner

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    Can you dig for wealth and be green?

    28 February 2009

    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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    What do you know?

    28 February 2009

    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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    Getting ready for The 31000

    28 February 2009

    The new ISO standard is meeting with a mixed response from risk managers, says Neil Hodge

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    Taking a united approach

    28 February 2009

    Alex Kiffen reports on a recent round table discussion on how to deal with catastrophe and how to prevent it

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    An integrated approach

    27 February 2009

    Aymeric Boyer-Vidal, GDF-Suez’s director of audit and risk discusses embedding enterprise risk management and handling a crisis

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    Winds of change for agricultural risks

    10 December 2008

    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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    A geographical understanding of risk

    10 December 2008

    The advent of satellite navigation and the birth of Google Earth, Google Maps and France’s Geoportail have alerted everyone involved in the management of catastrophes to the value of geographical information systems. By François-Xavier Goblet

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    Hurricane risk at high resolution

    10 December 2008

    We are using high resolution climate models and supercomputers to assess future hurricane risk to the United States and Caribbean at precision never before seen. By Greg Holland with James Done, Jim Hurrell, David Hosansky and Asuka Suzuki

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    Terror trade

    1 December 2008

    Kidnappers and extortionists use violence as a means to their financial or political ends. They pose a threat to both employees and corporate reputations. Nathan Skinner talks through the problem

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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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    Solutions not problems

    1 December 2008

    A four pronged approach to supply chain risk management can improve resilience and the value of the insurance programme says Jim Carruthers

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    Everything changes, nothing changes

    1 December 2008

    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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    Achieving a share of the marketing mind

    1 November 2008

    David Abrahams considers the ways and means of introducing risk thinking to marketing colleagues in difficult times

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    Twelve steps to better security

    1 November 2008

    Some organisations are struggling to comply with the payment card industry’s new set of standards on data security. Nathan Skinner explains

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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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    Bombs, bird flu and banana skins

    22 September 2008

    There are many catastrophic events that can cause disruption to business, but more often than not its a disorganised response that causes the most serious problems. Peter Power looks at the key features of a crisis management plan

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    Risk engineering

    1 September 2008

    In a competitive environment, preventing loss is vital. Nathan Skinner garners the thoughts of five risk managers on the subject

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    Strike!

    1 September 2008

    With economic slowdown and rising inflation, the spectre of industrial unrest rears its head as trades unions seek to protect their members’ standard of living, while employers attempt to cut costs. What can you do about this risk?

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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