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NewsWhy insurance companies are failing to deal with emerging risks
Better training, staffing strategies and adapting product development are three effective methods to mitigating emerging risks, says the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies
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How to claim it from the weatherman
Almost nine out of ten businesses are impacted by the weather. In other words, the fortunes of 88% of companies depend on meteorological conditions.
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The future is in the ‘radical risk management process’
Risk management is a mental process, not a technical one of data gathering, evaluation and reporting. Those who do nothing will just be exploited by those who constantly change and improve. So, swap tradition for a four-tiered ‘radical’ risk management process, writes Horst Simon of Risk Culture Builder
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Are we sleep walking into a crisis?
’This is the way we have always done it’ is the most dangerous phrase in modern risk management argues Warren Black, founder and principal, Complexus.
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Taking the temperature of risk
When Kurt Meyer took the job as head of risk and insurance for the swiss national grid, he had no idea that it would lead him to reshape the conversation around risk management.
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Three fatal mistakes corporate risk managers make
A new paradigm in risk management is beginning to take shape, with more professionals talking about a shift to risk-based decision making and culture. But this has also uncovered some ugly truths about how we apply risk management in our businesses, writes Alex Sidorenko, chief executive of Risk Academy
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Brexit chaos spells trouble for risk managers
As the Brexit deadline nears, uncertainty prevails after British MPs rejected the prime minister’s deal – twice. Strategic RISK gathers the reaction of European risk managers, including the chief risk officer of French pharmaceutical company, Ipsen, who has prepared the business for a ‘hard Brexit’. Sara Benwell reports
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Risk managers shake up insurance buying as rates climb
Insurance managers are mulling changes to the structure of their policies in response to a push by insurers to increase prices following a devastating succession of catastrophe losses
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Time to reposition the role of risk managers
PARIMA chairman Franck Baron tells StrategicRISK why ’redefining risks’ will be an important central theme that will be echoed across PARIMA’s conferences and new initiatives in 2019.
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StrategicRISK launches #ChangingRisk campaign
Risks are changing and risk management needs to change too. That’s why we’ve launched #ChangingRisk - a campaign promoting new thinking in risk
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Growthsurance: Facilitating change
Marc Covarrubias, head of strategic account management, EMEA at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions explains how risk managers can drive growth in their organisation
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Making markets: extended product warranties
How differentiating a service offering using innovative insurance solutions can offer companies a competitive edge
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Is insurance fit for the future?
Most traditional insurance products provide cover for tangible assets. But increasingly an organisation’s value is based around intangible assets, so how can insurance keep up?
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When reputation is at stake
An important part of any risk management plan should incorporate crisis management planning should something go wrong, writes the Institute of Risk Management’s Victoria Robinson.
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WEF 2019: Geopolitical risks dominate today’s global risk landscape, but are we sleepwalking into a crisis?
Risk managers across Europe react to the findings of this year’s WEF Global Risks report, which warns that “our ability to collaborate on [risks] and then mitigate them is decreasing”
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Cyber risks and business interruption top risk ranking as the biggest risks to corporates
Cyber and BI risks are increasingly interlinked as ransomware attacks or accidental IT outages often result in disruption of operations and services, costing hundreds of millions of dollars, warn AGCS on the launch of its Risk Barometer 2019
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Re-branding ‘risk management’ to ‘success assurance’
Are old-school risk management approaches such as risk matrices and heatmaps preventing it from being seen as driver to business performance?
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Lloyd's responds to cyber hackers' 'fresh threat'
It relates to a previous incident that was discovered last year by a specialist law firm working with Hiscox
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How corporates get derailed and what risk managers can do to ensure it doesn’t happen to them
Economic and corporate crises in our recent history have taught us that solid risk management, communicated effectively to the top, works. Yet often, it never reaches the decision makers, writes Jonathan Blackhurst, head of risk management at Capita
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Managing the risks of the on-demand and sharing economies
In the sharing and on-demand economies, customers have the upper hand, and they are using this to drive prices down and standards up. Companies must be proactive as they enter a whole new world of risk.
