All Strategic Risk Global articles in September 2011
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Guide
Ein Leitfaden zur umwelthaftung in Europa (Guide to environmental liability in Europe)
StrategicRISK’s indispensible guide to environmental liability in Europe is now available in a German language edition.
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Features
How to: Conduct corporate foreign policy
Engaging with business abroad can prove rife with barriers and challenges, yet in our globalised economy it’s increasingly necessary. How can you get it right?
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Features
How to: Do business in frontier markets
Emerging markets promise big gains – and risk management challenges to match. Ambitious companies should follow these five steps to crossing frontiers
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Features
How to: Communicate with the board
Risk management is crucial to the survival of every business, yet few boards have a strong working knowledge of the area. Here are some key steps you can take to rectify this
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Graphics
Risk Financing: Renewable risks
The renewable energy industry is booming, but many insurers are reluctant to underwrite much-needed key projects
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Special Reports
A guide to managing your claims
This twenty four page guide looks at the claims issues topping the agenda today, whether that’s in connection with property, business interruption and liability claims, or guidance on three associated areas: fraud, absence management and reputational damage.
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Interviews
Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor’s risk management career has spanned nearly 40 years and has taken him across Europe, with some of the largest companies in big business. Who better, then, to take the reins as new Airmic chair?
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Comment
It's an inside job
New research has shown that some of the most serious risks a business can face originate from poor management practices and communication failures within the company itself
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Special Reports
Choked by the chain
The Japanese earthquake and tsunami illustrated the complex nature of global supply chains, and how businesses can be brought to a standstill by events a long way down the line. Risk managers need to know where their exposure lies
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Special Reports
Property Special Report: A catastrophic six months
The events that dominated the headlines earlier this year show that it is not enough for organisations to predict such occurrences – they have to develop a strategy that plans for the full unfolding consequences
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Graphics
Risk Atlas: Without warning
The problem with terrorism risk maps is that they are only as good as the intelligence behind them
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Graphics
Risk Indicator: What next for global business?
Five of the biggest issues on the risk landscape
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Comment
An old-age concern
The long-term effects of an ageing workforce are under debate, but the pension crisis is a certainty
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Interviews
The long road
Paul Taylor’s risk management career has spanned nearly 40 years and has taken him across Europe, with some of the largest companies in big business. Who better, then, to take the reins as new Airmic chair?
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Special Reports
European Roundup: Education initiatives
An expanded look ‘Around Europe’ shows how associations are bringing young people into risk management
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Analysis
The pension problem
With the end nigh for final-salary schemes, and ever-rising life expectancy, employers and employees face an uncertain future
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Analysis
They’re laughing at you
Hacktivist groups are out to expose, embarrass and damage businesses, and it can only take one small mistake in coding to leave a company vulnerable to a hacking attack. So why are businesses still not investing in their data security, and what should they be looking out for?