All Weekly Email Alert articles – Page 81

  • Features

    Changing work patterns

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Norris argues that a self-regulating approach, in which staff are free to organise and manage their own time in a responsible way, can offer more benefits to employers than taking a heavy-handed

  • Features

    The financial consequences of natural disasters

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Features

    Europe continues to pursue offenders

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Flouting European unfair competition rules is becoming increasingly costly. But some companies still do not seem to be taking the message on board

  • Features

    Poland a steep learning curve but …

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Features

    Heading in the right direction?

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

  • Features

    The revolving door that leads to nowhere

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Andrzej S Nartowski looks at Poland's approach to corporate governance

  • Features

    No more easy oil

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Features

    Global e-disclosure

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Collecting and preserving electronic data for disclosure in a court case is a complex task. How can you devise a strategy which will do the job across international borders? Lee Gluyas and Jonathan Maas have the answer

  • Editor's Letter

    Establishing the realities

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Working with you to raise risk managers’ profile

  • AIRMIC Portfolio

    Feedback from members

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    AIRMIC is conducting a confidential study of the realities of working life for risk managers in the UK's major companies in co-operation with StrategicRISK

  • Features

    Perspective on financial terrorism and insurance

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Features

    Lost and found

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    You may need to beef up your back-up system if you want to recover quickly after a disaster. Andy Holpin explains

  • AIRMIC Portfolio

    Not a nanosecond of hesitation

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    I didn’t hesitate for a nanosecond when the envelope arrived offering me the job, says John Hurrell, AIRMIC's new CEO

  • Analysis

    ISO/BSI progress

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    BSI has completed a second round of consultation on its UK risk management code of practice

  • Features

    Risk management progresses

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Rafal Rudnicki provides an overview on how risk management is evolving in Poland

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    AIRMIC Portfolio

    A unified voice needed

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Lord Hunt of Wirral, has called on groups representing risk management professionals to come together and create a united voice

  • Features

    In the wake of SocGen

    2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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?

  • Online only

    Hardware failure biggest threat to UK businesses

    2008-03-31T17:03:00Z

    Significant increase in flooding and denial of access situations, finds study

  • Online only

    New International Certificate in risk management

    2008-03-31T10:22:00Z

    New IRM qualification will be available from April 1

  • Online only

    Extension of Bluetongue protection zones

    2008-03-31T10:06:00Z

    New case of disease requires protection zone to be extended into Wiltshire and further into Hampshire