All Strategic Risk Global articles in June 2006
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Features
AUDIT AND SCREEN
Alan Hambidge examines the concepts and benefits of risk management audits and risk screens in connection with managing asbestos
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AIRMIC Portfolio
CHAIRMAN DESIGNATE
Geoff Taylor is the chairman designate of AIRMIC for 2006-7 Currently deputy chairman, he is due to be formally elected at the annual conference on 14 June in Bournemouth.
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Analysis
UNDERSTANDING UNDERPINS RISK ASSESSMENT
We live in a society that does not understand science and so cannot assess its risks As a result, we have overly cautious regulation that increases fear rather than reducing it.
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Analysis
CORPORATES ARE SEEKING INNOVATIVE RISK SOLUTIONS
The global capital markets are becoming increasingly attractive to corporates in the communications and technology sectors as some (re)insurers fail to keep pace with change
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Features
CONTROL & FLEXIBILITY
Despite reports that the insurance market is still softening, interest in maintaining existing captives and even starting new ones continues Alastair Paterson and Scott Gemmell explain why companies h
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Features
IS THE TIDE TURNING?
The law relating to contracts of insurance is complex and does not always favour the policyholder But proposed reforms could change this, say Jane Harte-Lovelace and Sarah Turpin.
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Features
TESTING THE RESILIENCE
How much capacity for change does your organisation have? And how can you test its resilience? Massimiliano Zanetti writes
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Features
Pulling the plug on telecoms
Are you feeling confident that your business continuity plan covers everything? Then pull the plug on your telephone system and see what happens, says Graham Chick
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Features
Planning for prominence
ALARM is proposing to begin a three year planning process that will reinforce the association's standing and respond to the challenge of raising the prominence of risk management in the public sector,
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Features
SEC Pay Proposals
Proposals by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the US financial services regulator, to amend its executive compensation disclosure requirements to improve transparency have been broadly welcomed
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Features
THE RISKS OF AN OUTSOURCING STRATEGY
Cyril Vegni and Sebastien Guery discuss how outsourcing differs from traditional sub-contracting and poses added risks
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Features
Preparing for new rules
Gary Summers recommends companies to produce a new risk assessment and crisis plan in preparation for changes in corporate manslaughter legislation
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Features
Merging values and reputation risk
Garry Honey discusses the trend for large organisations to take over smaller, ethical businesses
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Analysis
New membership structure
The new IRM membership structure that brings the status of the IRM's professional designations in line with many other membership organisations takes effect from the new membership year, starting 1 Ju
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Analysis
STRUGGLING TO MAKE SOX SUSTAINABLE?
Non-US companies that are required to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation for the first time this year, are so focused on the year one deadline that they are struggling to make t