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    Roundtable Part 5

    2007-09-25T16:00:00Z

    Giovanni Gentile: It’s a nightmare when dealing with legal entities around the globe. which operate under different regulatory frameworks. If in addition you have to deal with accounting frameworks, ERM systems and Solvency systems, you will have to produce multiple set of statements. If as an industry, we are not ...

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    Roundtable part 4

    2007-09-25T15:55:00Z

    Oskar Buchauer: From my point of view, reinsurance optimisation could be an area where we could really tie up and link the overall risk strategy or P&L volatility to the reinsurance process and my goal would be to establish such a link. However, I am not totally comfortable with the ...

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    Roundtable Part 3

    2007-09-25T15:50:00Z

    Sue Copeman: I think you all agree that models are great but they are tools and you can’t rely solely upon them. So having implemented your model, got your culture change, got your risk based pricing, how do you measure the performance, how do you know how well you are ...

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    Roundtable Part 2

    2007-09-25T15:47:00Z

    Tom Wilson: I distinguish between allocation as an active process of giving limit space or capital to grow a business, and capital attribution which is a mechanism for understanding how the business uses resources. For a lot of the pricing exercises, especially at a granular level, attribution is a measurement ...

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    Roundtable Part 1

    2007-09-25T15:42:00Z

    Sue Copeman: To set the scene, I’d like to ask each of you to briefly summarise what enterprise risk management (ERM) means to your organisation. Before the start of this discussion, Tom suggested that ERM means different things to different people so it would be helpful to get this clear. ...

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    Participants

    2007-09-25T15:37:00Z

    Sue Copeman, editor, StrategicRISK, who chaired the discussionOskar Buchauer, head of risk management and life planning, Allianz Group ItalyFerdia Byrne, senior consultant, TillinghurstGiovanni Gentile, managing director, finance/chief regulatory officer, Swiss Reinsurance CompanyOle Hesselager, head of group risk, TrygVestaJohn Redmond, president, Allied World Assurance Company (Europe)Olly Reeves, head of risk management, ...

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    Roundtable - Getting the most out of ERM

    2007-09-25T15:33:00Z

    Risk management is the core of (re)insurance companies’ business. And they have to adopt some sophisticated approaches both to steer their business focus and also to ensure that they meet forthcoming solvency requirements.

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    Roundtable Part 3

    2007-09-25T11:17:00Z

    GEOFF MILLER: What that illustrates too is the way in which the energy supply mix is changing and that to some extent influences the supply chain management issues as well. There was the dash for gas in the 1990s and so, if there were a significant event in the ...

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    Roundtable Part 2

    2007-09-25T11:11:00Z

    SUE COPEMAN: Looking at raw materials supply, there is a lot of talk because of the scarcity of oil or the cost of excavating remaining sources of oil, saying that we are going to have to build more nuclear power stations. As a risk manager, Kitty, how does that seem ...

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    Roundtable Part 1

    2007-09-25T11:10:00Z

    SUE COPEMAN: Supply continuity is probably a concern which is at the forefront of all your minds. As you are essentially in the service sector, supply has got to be pretty key. So I wondered what sort of issues you have encountered when you have been looking at this? Geoff, ...

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    Gable announces interim results

    2007-09-25T10:32:00Z

    Gable reports £0.4m net profit

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    Roundtable participants

    2007-09-25T10:30:00Z

    Simon Allen, consultant, Aon Global Risk ConsultingSue Copeman, editor, StrategicRISK who chaired the discussionSarah Hardingham, director global risk management InterGen (UK) LtdGeoff Miller, head of risk management, United Utilities plcKitty Sinclair, risk and insurance manager, British Energy Group plcKim Watts, head of risk assurance, EDF Energy

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    Energy and utilities - building on best practice

    2007-09-25T10:23:00Z

    The power and utilities sector is fairly heavily regulated in the UK. This discussion highlighted the need for organisations to achieve balance between the regulators’ requirements and the organisation’s own additional objectives

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    Roundtable Part 3

    2007-07-09T11:35:00Z

    John Windsor: That is a lesson that we learned recently: you have to have planned maintenance, whether it is your own property or leasehold. When you are a tenant, you have to ensure that you know what the landlord’s maintenance programmes are and that they are doing the job properly. ...

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    Roundtable

    2007-07-09T11:09:00Z

    ParticipantsPaul Howard, head of group insurance & risk management, J Sainsbury plc, chaired the discussionVal Butroyd, risk & underwriting manager, group risk and insurance department, the Co-operative GroupAndrew Bye, interim head of group risk & insurance, Home Retail Group plcRichard Longster, claims team manager, ASDA Stores LtdPaul Williamson, UK marketing ...

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    Roundtable

    2007-05-17T11:49:00Z

    Environmental Risks RoundtablePierre Sonigo, Group and Environmental Risk Manager, Alcan, Chaired the discussionHans Brandt, Corporate Risk and Insurance Manager, Veolia TransportAdrian Clements, Senior Insurance Risk Manager, Arcelor Insurance Consultants, Arcelor-Mittal GroupPeter Joy, Head of Research, Newsquest Specialist MediaTomasz Miazek, Risk Insurance Manager, Telekomunikacja PolskaDidier Mellaerts, Risk Manager, Umicore ...

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    Retail groups

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    For retail groups, it appears that only a very few risks, if poorly managed, do not have the potential to bounce back and hit your organisation where it hurts, at the level of brand and reputation

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    Roundtable Part 2

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Paul Howard: Does that tie in to things like the integrity of the brand?Val Butroyd: It is about reputation.Paul Howard: And trust.Andrew Bye: In some audiences, it would be a given. People do not necessarily write in about this kind of stuff. From an investment perspective and in terms of ...

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    Operational risk

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Semantics bedevils risk management. What do we mean by the terms we so often use? And do we mean the same thing? The first question for the participants in this roundtable was – what do we mean by operational risk?

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    BRUSSELS: The key environmental risks

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Research conducted by StrategicRISK in association with ACE highlights some of the issues relating to environmental liability that are taxing corporate risk professionals. In this Euro Forum discussion, our panel discussed some of the findings of that research and drew upon their own experience