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    Managing risk in the recession

    2009-08-04T00:00:00Z

    Not surprisingly, the effects of the current economic recession on risk and risk management dominated the agenda. Managing change is a daily necessity in the crisis.

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    Turmoil, transparency and compliance

    2008-10-30T17:16:00Z

    The presidents discuss the effects of the financial crisis, transparency over broker remuneration and compliancy for global programmes

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    Presidents' Roundtable 2008

    2008-05-20T00:00:00Z

    The presidents of the European national risk management associations discuss the macroeconomic risks that individual countries, let alone companies, cannot control, plus the impact of globalisation and the fast pace of change

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    Presidents' Roundtable 2007: Evolving risks

    2008-05-20T00:00:00Z

    The comparatively short-term focus of management boards and national governments means that the implications of long-term risks are not being taken into account despite the fact that dealing with them now would actually save overall costs

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    Policing your supply chain

    2008-03-11T16:46:00Z

    Well, do you need to police it, or will a strategic partnership relationship work much better? This was one of the questions addressed by our roundtable participants

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    Risk retention

    2008-03-10T17:30:00Z

    Deciding how much risk to retain can be a challenging balancing act. You have to take account of a wide range of factors including the operational as well as the financial elements

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    Absence management

    2008-03-10T17:20:00Z

    All the statistics show that absence management is a win-win strategy. Employers reduce not just their employee-related claims but also a whole raft of other costs, both direct and indirect, associated with having people off work

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    Emerging risks

    2008-03-10T17:14:00Z

    You can plan for the unexpected – even for the most unlikely event, provided it is on your risk radar. But what about those things that you know might cause a loss but whose cause and impact are so far unproven?

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    Corporate governance

    2008-03-10T17:09:00Z

    In the last 10 years we have seen a plethora of corporate governance regulations and legislation, both nationally and globally. The growing focus on risk controls and reporting may be increasing the importance of the risk manager’s role, but it also poses some challenges

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    Managing your liabilities

    2008-03-10T16:59:00Z

    Interestingly, our panel of experts was divided as to whether the much talked about UK compensation culture was as widespread as it is made out to be

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    Developing a risk culture

    2008-03-10T16:51:00Z

    Financial institutions, perhaps more than any other business sector, today face the need to comply with a myriad of regulations which inevitably touch upon if not directly impact their risk management and corporate governance

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    GENEVA: The future for risk management in Switzerland

    2007-12-06T00:00:00Z

    On the last day of September, Swiss-based risk managers gathered at the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva on the eve of the FERMA conference for StrategicRisk’s latest roundtable.

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    Participants

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Beat Affolter, (Chair) Director of Risk and Insurance management, Schweizerische PostFranck Baron, Vice president, Risk management & Insurance, FirmenichMarcel Eckerle, Marine Underwriting manager, ACE SwitzerlandPhilippe Guerry, Risk manager, Maus FrèresMichael Heimburger, Director international Risk management & Insurance, Kraft FoodsMaurizio Micale, Corporate risk management & Insurance director, STMicroelectronicsFlorian Mueller, General Manager, ...

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    Definitions and perceptions

    2007-10-15T00:00:00Z

    There are a plethora of definitions of enterprise risk management (ERM). Many of them focus on process, rather than looking at what ERM actually seeks to achieve

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    Roundtable Part 4

    2007-09-27T11:30:00Z

    Ralf Oelssner: I propose that we look now at D&O.Hans Jörg Schill: That can be dealt with fairly easily. If it comes to a claim, the insurers point to an exclusion, if not to a violation of the pre-contractual duty to disclosure. If that does not come in, then it ...

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    Roundtable Part 3

    2007-09-27T11:22:00Z

    Günter Dröse: If you look at Solvency II and Basel II, there is also the question of the financial conglomerates. That will be really interesting later with the way equity capital is allocated. The FSA has already promised that it will push for banks to give insurers in their groups ...

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    Roundtable Part 2

    2007-09-27T11:20:00Z

    Günter Schlicht: I would just like to say one thing about Mr Fromme’s remark – you lit the fire and now you must live with the consequences. Briefly to firelighting, we did in fact light a fire in the sense that at the beginning of the decade we spoke out ...

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    Roundtable Part 1

    2007-09-27T11:18:00Z

    Ralf Oelssner: Good day, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues. We all know what we want to do. We want to talk about the future of German industrial insurance. If you agree, we will start with Europe, and thus with the EU Commission’s analysis of the industrial insurance sector.I expect that most ...

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    Participants

    2007-09-27T10:15:00Z

    Ralf Oelssner, Vice President, Corporate Insurance, Lufthansa German AirlinesHans-Jurgen Allerdissen, Managing Director, Deutsche Verkehrs Assekuranz-Vermittlungs-GmbH, Insurance Brokers, Deutsche Bahn GroupAndreas Berger, Global Head of Market Management & Communication, Allianz Global Corporate & Speciality AGGunter Drose, Managing Director, Deukona Versicherungs-und-Vermittlungs-GmbH, Deutsche Bank Group, Corporate Insurance / Risk ManagementWolfgang Faden, Chief Executive ...

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    Trends in German Industrial Insurance –an inside out perspective

    2007-09-27T09:58:00Z

    Large German industrial companies are worried about the efforts of the EU Commission to set up stricter rules for industrial insurance along the lines of consumer protection systems