All Asset Risks articles – Page 4
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Interviews
AstraZeneca settles with drug users
The company paid £125m to settle about two thirds of seroquel personal injury claims in the US
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Infographic: Global risks spectrum
36 economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological risks mapped
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Interviews
Chilean miners appeal for rescue
33 miners could be trapped underground for months at a mine in northern Chile
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US financially unprepared for next catastrophe
Current disaster preparedness plan relies too heavily on retrospective insurance, says lobby
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Interviews
More trouble than its worth
Solvency II will severely restrict the commercial insurance market. It’s time Europe listened to the concerns of risk managers, blogs Carl Leeman
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Infographic: Tracking the history of the FTSE100
Visual graphic shows how the value and composition of the index has changed over 26 years
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Features
Winning treatment
Launching a series of fi rst-hand accounts of practical risk management, Mike Florence, who led AstraZeneca’s programme, explains how the team’s strategy has breathed new life into its respiratory and infl ammatory efforts
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Features
Special Report: Property Risk
Robust property risk management practices may call for serious investment in loss protection – but the benefi ts for the corporate bottom line can often more than compensate
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New world order
Corporate multinational property insurance programmes can provide signifi cant cost and control benefi ts – but risk managers should be aware of the potential pitfalls
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Features
Plight of the honeybee
Pesticides, parasites, disease – the growing list of aggressors against the humble honeybee is causing the population to die out and, Emily Miller warns, the ramifi cations will be huge
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Features
Still some way to go
StrategicRISK’s latest benchmarking survey indicates that, while many organisations are seeing the benefi ts from enterprise risk management, a signifi cant number still have some distance to cover before it is fi rmly embedded in their corporate culture
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The first line of defence
The effects of a blaze in a large building or facility go beyond just safety and structural damage, and can be ruinous – to the local infrastructure, economy and environment. But installing sprinkler protection could take businesses out of the line of fi re, says FM Global’s Brendan MacGrath
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Features
Continental shift
The Environmental Liability Directive has been on the agenda for years, but now that it has reached all corners of Europe, multinational organisations no longer have any excuse for turning a blind eye to the consequences of their environmental actions
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Trends in the emerging world
Growing emerging market economies offer significant opportunities, says Eurasia Group