Every year the World Economic Forum releases its Global Risk Report with the aim of addressing the key current and emerging risks and advancing thinking about their mitigation. It’s no suprise that financial risks top this year’s list. The potential for further deterioration of asset prices and fiscal positions could be exacerbated by a potential slowdown [...]
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Global Risk Report,
Marsh,
World Economic Forum
John P. Kotter, author and leadership consultant, was the guest of honor at Tuesday’s Keynote Luncheon here in Orlando. He began his intriguing presentation with the comparison of two CEOs. Those in attendance were forced to focus on how the leadership and management styles of the two men differed drastically. After in-depth studies and interviews [...]
In talking to the risk managers, brokers and insurers populating RIMS 2009, there are two themes that run constant. The first is the unique opportunity that last year’s financial meltdown has presented risk managers to raise their profiles within their organizations and prove their value to senior management. Finally, after the onslaught of calamities of [...]
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D&O,
Swiss Re,
Zurich
Environmental awareness is something a number of the insurance industry’s major carriers and brokers have spent a lot of energy promoting, and with good cause, too. According to one broker I spoke with this afternoon, companies are finally seeing the immediate results of going green, in terms of lower operating costs and much-improved records on [...]