All Risk News articles – Page 220
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Online onlyUS financially unprepared for next catastrophe
Current disaster preparedness plan relies too heavily on retrospective insurance, says lobby
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InterviewsMore 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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Lloyds bank appoints people risk director
Sandra Quinn joins from the financial regulator
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Online onlyVideographic: Who owns America’s debt?
A dynamic perspective of the major foreign holders of US government debt
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GraphicsInfographic: 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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FeaturesWinning 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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Not so smart …
Using a mobile phone can be a risky business. But while any link with cancer is still to be proved, there is no doubt about the dangers of driving and using a hand-held and the phones’ vulnerability to security lapses, writes Andrew Leslie
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FeaturesSpecial 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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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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FeaturesStill 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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FeaturesHow to: Make sure you're ready to face the judges
When Standard & Poor’s added risk management to its credit rating assessment, some doubted it had the credibility to properly judge the discipline. But as a good rating is vital to success, says Nathan Skinner, does your ERM do enough to impress the panel?
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FeaturesSpecial Report: Environmental risk
Don’t be fooled by the EU’s new environment directive. Each member state has its own take on the new environmental accountability rules. And the onus is very much on multinational companies to get to grips with what each country is serving up – to ensure they are adequately covered across ...
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Environmental Special Report: Going green is key
The Environmental Liability Directive has brought with it a new urgency to take environment risk seriously. Despite other financial pressures, companies can’t afford to let green issues slip down the priority list
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How to: Develop an eagle eye
Nimble, observant, precise: risk management auditors have much to learn from our feathered friends. Liz Taylor urges them to do a spot of bird-watching
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FeaturesThe 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
