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Casting the net to secretaries
AIRMIC is offering free trial membership to company secretaries as part of a drive to bring the benefits of the association to a wider range of businesses and managers through an agreement with the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA). Although the association already has a very high proportion ...
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Managing your reputation
Maintaining a good reputation with key stakeholders is an aspect of business where risk managers can play a critical role, AIRMIC believes, so it has joined forces with the London based consultancy Reputability with the aim of publishing a communiqué setting out the principles of good reputation management. Anthony Fitzsimmons, ...
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SIGS are given overhaul
Experience has shown AIRMIC that members’ interest groups based on industry sectors are more sustainable than those for specific topics, so it has reorganised its special interest groups. The industry groups are: charities, construction, financial institutions, food and distribution, media, IT and telecoms, power, property, rail, retailers, travel and water ...
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FeaturesBusiness uninterrupted
Contract certainty, reputational impact and handling post-loss issues were among the topics discussed at StrategicRISK’s recent question time on business continuity. Nathan Skinner describes the debate
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Opening more doors
AIRMIC is making a concerted effort to deepen its involvement with all its members and to broaden its appeal to managers who have risk management responsibilities but not necessarily a risk management job title. Although AIRMIC now holds a range of events, chief executive John Hurrell wants to reach members ...
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What they really want to know
Data protection, cyber risks, supply chain, business continuity and disaster recovery, director and officer, captives and claims issues are among the subjects that risk managers say they want to know more about from partner briefings, according to a survey of members to help plan the programme of events in 2010. ...
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Editor's LetterPromoting your profile
Recession has focused companies’ attention on risks, this is a big opportunity for the risk management community
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Features
So now what?
Organisations are working hard to put the financial crisis behind them, but with a new year must come a new approach for companies and their risk managers, says Andrew Leslie
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FeaturesManaging the risk
Managing your directors’ and officers’ liability (D&O) risk has always been important. In today’s recession where pressures may encourage directors to cut corners and third parties to sue, it’s vital, writes Sue Copeman
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FeaturesMaking the investment fit
How can risk managers persuade their boards to invest in risk engineering when money is tight? asks Tony Dowding
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The future is Live
Airmic consulted its members on its future activities via a dial-in telephone discussion as part of the Airmic Live! Series.The discussion was chaired by Lynda Lucas of Fujitsu, and the Airmic panel of chairman Paul Howard, chief executive John Hurrell and technical director Paul Hopkin outlined plans for the future ...
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FeaturesAn update of ERM systems
There are products on the market to help companies make sense of the large amount of data that risk management can create. Sara Edlington talks to some of the companies that think they have the answer
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AIRMIC PortfolioFinancial crisis could happen again
The financial crisis could take place all over again, BBC business editor Robert Peston told this year’s Airmic lecture. Peston and Zurich Group chief economist Daniel Hofmann were joint lecturers in an evening concerned with the aftermath of the financial crisis.Quite a lot that needs to be done is not ...
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Interviews
Risk manager careers
After nine months, the Airmic Academy has taken stock of how it has so far delivered knowledge and skills for different grades of risk management professionals. In particular, the exercise has highlighted soft skills as something it should offer in future.The Academy is gradually being moulded to more accurately reflect ...
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AIRMIC PortfolioConsulting on captives
Although the European Commission accepted that the future regulation of captive insurance companies should be proportionate to their type of business, the definition of a captive in Solvency II is narrow and likely to affect non-EU domiciled captive insurers significantly, Airmic believes. Airmic’s captive special interest group is preparing a ...
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FeaturesHandle with care
Recent UK initiatives are at last giving issues over claims handling the attention they deserve. Sue Copeman reports
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AIRMIC completes speed-of-settlement agreement
Voluntary agreement expected to become common practice on all property and BI claims
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FeaturesThe view from Europe
Nathan Skinner summarises what is happening in Europe’s risk management associations
