All Comment articles – Page 7
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Opinion
Opinion: 'Is there really a preponderance of grey hair – or lack thereof – lining the corridors of risk departments?'
Looking 20 years ahead, does the risk management industry still exist? Willis’s UK risk director Tim Chadwick examines whether risk management is an ageing profession
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Opinion
Opinion: “Risk management must change or else we remain fragmented technical people”
John Hurrell Airmic CEO on the future of risk management
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Opinion
Opinion: 'Diversity? I thought middle-aged white men knew everything?'
Heathrow Express’s safety & assurance director Elaine Heyworth brings the diversity in risk management debate to the fore – and to Twitter
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Opinion
Opinion: CSR reality check
Companies risk their reputation if CSR policies are not genuine says Lani Bannach, international risk management director, Well U Trading
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Opinion
Opinion: Main risk exposures are now cyber and natural catastrophe
Repsol’s director of insurance Miguel Luque Herrán on the key challenges affecting the oil and gas industry
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Opinion
Opinion: Risks of cost-cutting in the marine sector
‘By cutting costs, businesses may feel forced to cut corners,’ says RSA marine risk manager Nick Andrews
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Opinion
Opinion: The old-fashioned coal plants facing closure are being worked as hard as possible
The EU energy strategy will take many old-fashioned coal-fired power stations out of production says Andrew Leslie
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Analysis
Ferma Forum 2013: interactive conference review
All the news, views and video interviews from this year’s Ferma Forum in Maastricht
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Analysis
Editor's comment: Social media – 'a virtual mirror for narcissists and a meeting point for the terminally vacuous’
Are the changes engendered by the internet – or, indeed, social media – always a force for good?
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Risk Innovation
Zurich chief spells out German priorities
Zurich Germany head of broker management GI Johann Worm (pictured) discusses the key challenges facing German corporations
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Risk Innovation
Lorenzo Arias, head of international technology and financial services, Zurich Global Corporate Switzerland
Compliance and regulatory risk is a major issue for companies based in Switzerland.
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Risk Innovation
Manuel Meier, chief executive, Zurich Global Corporate Switzerland
Our customers face several risks.
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Risk Innovation
Peter S Philipp, managing director, Willis Global Solutions (International)
For perhaps five or six years now the insurance market in Switzerland has been soft.
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Comment
‘Making disaster insurance mandatory brings in its wake a whole new set of problems’
The European Commission natural disaster proposals have revived questions about moral hazard and allocation of responsibility,
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Comment
‘3D printers could mean the end of supply chain troubles. But what about the reverse side?’
Counterfeit could become an increasing problem as 3D printing technology takes off
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Interviews
Leading the way on risk
On the eve of Airmic’s golden jubilee, its chief executive is a calming and commanding presence with a vision for the next 50 years
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Comment
‘It’s time to take notice when risk management is turning into process over purpose’
‘In a benign economic environment, it is all too easy to be frustrated by the constraints of risk controls and the vagaries of regulators’
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Comment
‘The coffee house of 100 years ago has been replaced by the global immediacy of social media’
‘Next year will mark the centenary of the start of the Great War and the world has changed beyond recognition in that time’
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Risk Innovation
Bas van Mullem, global relationship leader, Zurich Global Corporate Benelux
Socio-demographic change is one of the key risks facing the Benelux countries
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Risk Innovation
Alain Wijnants, chief executive, Zurich Global Corporate Benelux
Benelux might be small, but it has always had a serious international outlook