All General articles – Page 4
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The Loss Of Certainty
If you buy insurance to protect your business against loss and catastrophe, you need to be able to rely on it. But loss of certainty resulting from the breakdown of record keeping systems is a growing
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Manage Legal Risk
Legal risk management is emerging as a new and important branch of the risk management business. Adrian Leonard asks Rob Murray, director of Legal Risk Management at KLegal, part of KPMG, about LRM
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Unilever: The risk spectrum
Unilever provides its customers with everything from tea to household cleaners. Lee Coppack highlights the corporate governance and risk management issues facing the dual nationality group
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Emerging issues
Adrian Leonard discusses risk and solutions with Chris Frost, partner, operational risk management solutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers
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Risk-free decisions?
Human psychology can easily get in the way of making the correct risk management decisions. Brian Toft describes the pitfalls
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Harnessing creativity
Avoiding the risks of missed opportunities, poor strategic choices, or financially skewed evaluation systems means harnessing creativity and imagination
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When the inspector calls
The contaminated land regime is now heading into an important phase. Risk management principals are at the core of the new legislation, says Sue Cooley
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Assessing captive performance
Current insurance market turbulence will encourage greater use of captives. But how do you know if your captive is performing successfully? Clive Thursby advocates a financial strength rating
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Trouble ahead?
Nick Stanbury looks at the practical implications for company directors of the proposed UK company law changes
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South Africa the HIV/Aids crisis
Companies which source products in South Africa, or which have subsidiaries there, may need to face up to the growing problem of the country’s HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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Transactions increase vulnerability.
Negotiating mergers, acquisitions and IPOs can leave directors open to claims. Charles Boorman discusses the risks and how to protect yourself against them
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Moving forward
The events of 11 September have shattered the traditional concepts of our world.
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On the record
Honest and open media strategies play a crucial part in successful crisis and risk management, stresses former police spokesman Matt Tapp.
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Managing people risks and risky people
Mark Edelsten believes that HR managers have an important role to play in the risk management team.
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Public sector good practice
Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, said that his office was working with government departments to improve their risk management and assist them in well thought-through risk taking.
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Complex Challenges
Adrian Leonard asks Professor Ortwin Renn, a consultant at the Centre of Technology Assessment in Baden-Württemburg about his approach to the challenges of systemic risk management.
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For Better, For Worse?
Should the widely predicted economic recession materialise, Jane Yates suggests it will be time for a new brand strategy.
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Deadly cost of driving
Ten people are killed and 1,000 more are injured on Britain’s roads every day.
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Insurable certification on-line
Globalisation and the growth of e-commerce raise problems of lack of transparency and security.
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Getting the right balance
The first in a series of Q&A discussiosn with influential members of the risk management community.
