Forum Taking the risk out of Risk Management - Never before have we read so much about risk management in the press. Most professions are now involved in risk management of one form or another and most large companies and organisations now say that they are “doing” risk management and their annual reports contain statements to that effect. However, the term “risk management” can mean vastly different things to different professions and   read more...

New Australian Standard for Risk Management When it was published in 1995, the Australian Standard for risk management was a world-first and went on to become one of the most successful and sought after Standards internationally. This month, Standards Australia is launching the latest version of AS/NZS 4360 Risk Management, as well as   read more...

Canada puts Australian Standard to work in the public sector In early 2001, the government of British Columbia’s risk management branch (RMB) recognised the need for an enterprise risk management framework. Senior government officials endorsed a systematic risk analysis   read more...

Achieving better practice Corporate Governance Recent collapses and partial failures of major listed companies serve to keep the topic of corporate governance in the public spotlight. Accompanying this phenomenon as been a call   read more...

A globally accepted Standard for Risk Management When developing Standards for use within Australia and New Zealand the responsible Technical Committee examines what international best practice is available to adapt and incorporate into the local document. This process   read more...

Liability Insurance Policies and the Current Market (2004-05-31) A current paper from the UK on the current state of the insurance market   read more...

Flood Risk and the Insurance Industry (2004-05-05) Numerous catastrophic flood disasters in recent years have occurred, flood risk has been at the forefront of many media issues in Europe.   read more...

GARP 2004 (2004-04-27) Some challenging ideas from the 2004 annual conference of the Global Association of Risk Professionals, in New York in late February   read more...

Dropping Dollars (2004-04-01) As the US dollar continues to drop in value against other world currencies, it presents both downside and upside risks. It continues to be the major issue of volatility for 2004.   read more...

Environmental Liability Insurance (2004-02-05) A paper on the demands for environmental insurance programmes and solutions in today’s market   read more...