World Economic Forum

• Control What You Can

  By Laura Mazzuca Toops, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 1, 2012

  Catastrophes of the future may not arise from the usual suspects like hurricanes, flooding and earthquakes. We could be looking at even bigger problems that will affect the ever-connected globe.

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  The Business of Controlling What You Can

  By Laura Mazzuca Toops, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 20, 2012

  Future disasters may not arise from hurricanes, flooding and earthquakes, but from bigger socioeconomic issues that will affect the ever-connected globe, according to the World Economic Forum.

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  Drivers of ERM in 2012: The End of the World?

  By Denise Tessier  |  January 20, 2012

  Adopting ERM to meet ever-increasing risks in the new year.

• Businesses See Economy as Greatest Risk in 2012, Two Studies Say

  By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com, Mark E. Ruquet  |  January 19, 2012

  Economic risk is the top concern on business professionals’ minds going into 2012, according to two new, separate surveys conducted by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) and the World Economic Forum.

• WEF: Financial Risk Trumps Environmental Concerns

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 12, 2012

  Experts and industry leaders see world-economic conditions having far greater consequences on society in the near term than environmental risks, according to a report from the World Economic Forum.

• U.S. CIO Kundra to Keynote 2012 ACORD LOMA Forum

  By Staff Writer  |  November 14, 2011

  Vivek Kundra, the first CIO of the United States, will be the keynote speaker at the 2012 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum. Kundra will open the conference and describe how the best defense is a good offense in overcoming technology challenges.

• Insurers Try to Keep a Lid on Mobile Security

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 8, 2011

  Information is spilling out of mobile solutions today. Risk managers are being challenged by the desire of business users to access data wherever and whenever they wish.

• Mobile, Cloud Computing Issues Challenge Risk Managers

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 16, 2011

  Risk managers are facing two related, yet still divergent, movements in the world of computing, according to David Allred, head of technology for Zurich North America Commercial.

• Swiss Re: Public-Private Partnerships Can Ease Nat Cat Budget Burdens

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 27, 2011

  Public-private partnership solutions can substantially ease the financial burden natural disasters put on government budgets as evidence mounts that the burden is growing beyond some nations’ abilities to pay, according to a report from Swiss Re.

• Top Global Risks To Be Examined At WEF In Davos

  By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 26, 2011

  Macro-economic imbalances, illegal economy and unsustainable pressure on resources are three global risks that will be in focus at the upcoming World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland later this week.