Éireann LeverettRisk Researcher, Centre for Risk Studies, Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, and CEO, Concinnity Dr Andrew CoburnSVP, RMS, Inc., and Director of Advisory Board, Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, Cambridge Judge Business School On 13 … Continued
The WEF Global Risks 2015 identifies ‘interstate conflict’ as the top catastrophe threat of concern, in a new ranking order of business risks for the next decade. Managing the business risk posed by political instability and other threats is a … Continued
BOOK REVIEW: Global Crisis: War, Climate Change & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century, Geoffrey Parker, 2013, Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-15323-1. What happens when lots of catastrophes happen at once? Geoffrey Parker’s book describes a period in history – the … Continued
In the Great Financial Crisis of 2007 to 2009, investment portfolios took big hits on their value, with indices like the Dow Jones falling to less than half of their pre-crisis peak by March 2009. Analysts said that the financial … Continued
Risk Managers have never been short of data – they are usually drowning in it – so they can be forgiven for not getting too excited about the prospect of ‘Big Data’: the idea of orders of magnitude more digital … Continued