All Strategic Risks articles – Page 13
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Features
Putting a price on life
Mike Hanley discusses the cost benefit problems of increasing the safety of the railways.
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Features
Ten lessons from the fuel crisis
In September, petrol shortage became as emotive an issue as having no bread or water. Peter Power reviews the lessons.
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Features
Managing weather risks
Trading in weather derivatives has grown steadily in Europe since the first deal was struck in 1998.
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Features
Fighting off predators
The immediate reaction of most managements to a takeover approach is negative. Sue Copeman discusses strategies for fighting a hostile bid.
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Features
Post Mortem
David Gilbert identifies five common reasons for corporate failure, ranging from elementary lack of basic controls to an ostrich-like failure to face facts.
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Analysis
Capital markets' political risks
Sovereign Risk Insurance is offering a political risk product for cross border capital markets transactions.
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Features
Alchemy for project financing?
Rob Tucker explores the arcane world of Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) and Alternative Risk Finance (ARF) and its application within property and other structured finance deals.