With Barclay's Bank, Britain's third biggest bank, joining the growing list of banks taking multi-billion hits on subprime and with Goldman Sachs warning that leveraged investors may need to...

More companies recognize the risks of climate change, but they're struggling to deal with it, according to a new global study. The survey canvassed the views of 2400 companies.The ISS RiskMetric...

Listed companies seem to have a knack of alienating investors and harming their share price by providing forecasts that are way off target, according to a global study.More than 70 per cent of...

The rule of thumb with risky investment is that it cuts both ways. The present new opportunities for big gains but there is also the danger of being wiped out. It applies to all sorts of financial...

Early last year, i did a blog entry looking at the views Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Professor Yossi Sheffi. He argued that many companies struggle with risk management because...

Do one or two of your employees have very close relationships with vendors? Do any key employees have outside business interests that might conflict with their job duties? Do any appear to dominate...

A coalition of interests, including investors are petitioning the Securities and Exchange Commission to force companies to come clean on pollution risks, reports MarketWatch.Basically, the argument...

This is the week of critical meetings to find answers on what to do about global warming. In New York, the United Nations will be looking at tighter emission mandates and the Bush administration will...

Financial institutions might be spending more on IT security but they continue to struggle and many are now starting to realize that the big problem is with people. Either with their own employees,...

Last week, I talked about how business leaders believed they were now working in an increasingly dangerous world with that political violence shaping up as a bigger problem than crime.Now the PRS...

This week, I sat down to have a chat with Thomas Homer-Dixon, professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and author of The Upside of Down. In his book, Homer-Dixon argues that the...

Business leaders believe they are now working in an increasingly dangerous world with political violence shaping up as a growing risk for companies planning to invest in big ventures.An Economist...

Technology-related risks might rank high on the agenda for boards these days. But new research suggests many British company directors are totally clueless when it comes to understanding IT...

Have finished reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's thought-provoking book The Black Swan. All about the futility and danger of making and relying on forecasts.Basically, Taleb argues that we are...

With climate change and shifting weather patterns, water shortages are now popping up everywhere around the world. Whether it's in the US, Australia, Ireland, Bulgaria, Turkey, and other parts of...

Why do we keep making bad investments? Maybe it's because of the way our brains are wired up, says Jason Zweig, author of Your Money and Your Brain.Zweig gives eight tips CNN Money, just warnings...

The volatility in the markets now reflects a whole new set of financial risks, says Harvard Business School business administration lecturer Mohamed El-Erian.He argues that the markets have become so...

Global markets are in turmoil, risk is being repriced and institutions are likely to put more pressure on companies to come clean on their contingent liabilities that include environmental,...

The Internet is becoming a playground for criminals and has turned into a lawless "wild west'', according to a report out of Britain's House of Lords.The report says there the...