Asia Pacific – Page 79
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Features
Preventing losses in the chemical industry
Safety risks are inherent to the operational process of chemical manufacturing plants and refineries, but also pose a major concern for chemical facilities in other types of industry. By Leonardo Piazzi
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Features
Extreme weather and commodity prices
Extreme weather conditions and natural or man-made disasters usually cause a blip in commodity prices. How big a shift and how long it lasts depend on many factors. By Hugh Craig and Lee Coppack
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Archive
RAPM pivotal to increasing profits
Some 90% is risk managers surveyed say their firms are using Risk-Adjusted Performance Measurements, or plan to implement them in the next three years.
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Archive
New president appointed for RMIA
The board of the Risk Management Institution of Australasia appoints Grant Whitehorn as president.
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Archive
Topics and trends
A steady stream of regulation has imposed stringent requirements on European company directors and officers. Sue Copeman looks at the areas that risk professionals believe have implications for manage
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Archive
RUSSIANS GOING GLOBAL
Vladislav Soloviov believes that embracing international corporate governance standards can help Russian companies shake off their negative image
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Features
Topics and trends
A steady stream of regulation has imposed stringent requirements on European company directors and officers. Sue Copeman looks at the areas that risk professionals believe have implications for management liability in 2007.
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A Model of Tenacity
A little over 20 years ago, a young woman, metaphorically clutching her new masters degrees in economics and business administration, went to work in Boston for the US subsidiary of one of Britain's l
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Russians going global
Vladislav Soloviov believes that embracing international corporate governance standards can help Russian companies shake off their negative image.
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Analysis
Current and future risks
Regulation was also cited as a huge burden, costing, according to the British Chamber of Commerce, £10bn between 1997 and 2005. However, Royal & SunAlliance's Risk Uncovered Index2 identifies the biggest future risks facing UK businesses as predominantly stemming from problems close to home.Strong competition in the market place has ...
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Roundtables
Roundtable Part 2
PIERRE SONIGO: Do you believe, Arie, that you have good control over your environmental risks? ARIE J VAN DER STEEN: We have been through a lot of acquisitions and divestments in the last 20 years or so. Basically, our environmental liability risks are associated with really old operations – they ...
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Roundtables
Executive Summary
Environmental liability risks are an important concern for Europe’s industrial base
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Roundtables
Roundtable Part 3
TOMASZ MIAZEK: But this would not apply to the internal walls, the construction of the building itself. This is what the people responsible for selling the buildings are asking me.ARIE J VAN DER STEEN: What are they worried about?TOMASZ MIAZEK: They are worried that some asbestos may be discovered.ARIE J ...
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Features
Performing better
Is regulation a burden or a blessing? Lindsay Cox says that enterprise risk management can turn compliance requirements into a valuable business performance management capability.
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Archive
Breaking the Supply Chain
In today's interconnected world, supply chain risk represents a significant and often critical exposure to many companies.
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Features
Financial Management of Large Scale Catastrophes
The OECD has launched an international network that will gather high level public officials, representatives of the private sector and academic experts with a view to exchanging information and provid
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Features
Reviewing Model Changes
Commercial catastrophe model vendors have made key changes this year to their US hurricane and European windstorm models. Especially for US hurricane, the effect on modelled loss is material.
