Insights & Impacts

While acquisition strategies are an essential part of fuelling future growth, the risk implications are often extensive. The acquiring business must address these throughout the transaction and subsequent integration process.  

Australia’s resources sector has bounced back in 2018. This is great news for a cyclical industry that’s been through a tough spell but the upswing has an impact on risk profiles that must be taken into account.

“If you see this text then your files are no longer accessible, because they have been encrypted,” read the message on the computer screen. “Please follow the instructions and send $300 of Bitcoin to the following address.”

Whilst brokers have provided the opportunity to get clients insured more easily, we’ve seen that focus has drifted away from the quality of the underlying risk to the price of the insurance contract.

Amid sombre tributes to the 70-plus people who lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire this time last year, questions are emerging about the speed and coordination of Australia’s response to cladding issues that contributed to the disaster.

Australia’s energy future is one of the most important issues facing our government and business leaders. Short-term attention has focused on the need to avoid blackouts, which in-turn has translated into pressure to continue to operate ageing assets...

Electrical and mechanical breakdowns – particularly $100 million draglines and other pieces of high-value, specialist equipment – can expose mine operators to shutdowns lasting weeks or months.

FM Global's Tom Lawson, chairman and CEO, explains how the engineering-based organization has been utilizing data and analytics since it was founded 182 years ago. Find out how analytics can help you weather everything from storms to cyber threats in...

It's what makes the world go around. Almost everyone agrees that it can't buy happiness, and we all know it doesn't grow on trees. But for many people around the world, it now comes from a tiny island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Crane...