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    Russia, Ukraine and Africa: Against the Grain

    2023-02-15T11:36:00Z

    Is Russia’s war in Ukraine a localised conflict, a regional war, or a global disaster?

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    Born to insure

    2023-02-01T10:28:00Z

    From a family of insurance experts, Soni Srivastava was perhaps destined for a career in the industry

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    How short-term challenges are impacting the net-zero transition

    2023-01-25T13:49:00Z

    Charles Sincock explains how global risks are altering our journey to net zero and what this means for businesses

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    Room for risk

    2022-10-17T13:16:00Z

    Marriott’s Sharon Xu on being people-oriented, embracing change and preparing for another COVID at the hotel chain giant

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    Tipping towards disaster

    2022-09-29T11:13:00Z

    In this ever-more destabilised world, the post-Cold War rules no longer apply, explains Dragonfly’s Henry Wilkinson

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    The tough cookie

    2022-09-28T13:51:00Z

    Philippines-based Annacel Natividad on resilience and building risk relationships in her frequently catastrophe-hit country

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    Predictive analytics in an era of cascading risks

    2022-09-28T09:59:00Z

    How effective data integration makes sense of complexity and takes risk management into a new era

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    Are your brokers costing too much?

    2022-09-01T21:32:00Z

    When approaching last year’s renewals, a single factor helped us shortlist brokers: data

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    The risk maverick

    2022-03-31T12:33:00Z

    Something of a divisive figure within the risk profession, one thing no-one can accuse Alex Sidorenko of is being apathetic about risk management

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    Reputations under siege

    2022-03-14T15:12:00Z

    It has never been more difficult to manage reputational risk - is authenticated risk management the answer? asks Peter Gerken

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    The changemaker

    2021-11-22T17:21:00Z

    Cristina Martinez Garcia of Sacyr is on a mission to put a positive spin on the risk manager role

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    The reinvention of supply chains

    2021-08-17T12:01:00Z

    Near shoring and technology will shape the post-COVID supply chain, thinks AXA XL’s Pascal Matthey 

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    ESG champion

    2021-05-27T10:32:00Z

    Swiss Re Corporate Solutions’ Jonathan Rake explains why real innovation in insurance has never been more important

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    Time to pull together

    2021-05-17T11:31:00Z

    Argo Group’s Adam Seager on the challenges of maintaining corporate cohesion in a more virtual working environment

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    Generation ERM

    2021-03-31T08:44:00Z

    Part of the next generation of risk managers promoting the holistic approach, Sogefi Group’s Valentina Paduano believes it is time to rethink your methods

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    NDBI: Exposed and unprotected

    2021-02-12T13:30:00Z

    Caroline Woolley explains why it’s much better to play ‘let’s pretend you have a loss’, than trying to deal with expectation gaps after an event

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    In support of a green economy

    2021-02-02T12:06:00Z

    Europe and Asia suffer from some of the most severe fossil-fuel-company insured losses in the world, according to PCS data

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    Mental health: The next crisis

    2021-01-28T10:57:00Z

    Tackling mental health is not just the right thing to do, but an essential exercise in risk management, according to International SOS’ Dr Rodrigo Rodriguez-Fernandez.

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    Time to revisit building codes?

    2020-08-25T11:33:00Z

    Amidst the increasing frequency and intensity of natural catastrophes it is time to revisit the purpose and content of building codes, argues FM Global’s Michael Stuckings

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    Why current risk definitions just don’t work

    2019-03-18T22:00:00Z

    ‘Intangible’, ‘the effect of uncertainty on objectives’, ‘likelihood’, ‘probability’, ‘consequence’, and ‘impact’ – do these perennially-used terms add clarity to risk management practices or do they just dilute and confuse what we do? asks Tony Thornton, ERM and business continuity expert