The ballots are in, and we are pleased to announce the winners of our annual Risk Communication Award for 2013, which recognizes those who used communication to skillfully take and manage risk in the past year. Take your seat, top up your champagne and read on.
It’s the time of year to reflect on life, business – and our best and worst posts. Your diligent scribe here at the Risk Matters blog had a few observations that proved prescient. Oh yes, there were some clunkers, too.
There’s something to be said for surprise. It keeps us on our toes and makes life interesting. That’s especially true in financial markets, where we’ve grown accustomed to apparent certainties – from “consensus” earnings estimates to interest-rate forecasts. So it was good to see Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke remind everyone on Wall Street that Fed […]
Readers of the Sunday New York Times found a scowling, unshaven Larry Summers on the front page, accompanying an article that questioned his fitness to lead the Fed given his close ties to Wall Street. The article was a first-rate takedown – a savaging that was thin on facts and lacking any kind of balance. […]
We suffering taxpayers were treated to some rare good news this week, when the U.S. Treasury sold the last of its holdings in AIG, earning a cool $23 billion profit. Not bad for a risky corporate turnaround. But there to rain on the parade was Hank Greenberg, the former CEO of the insurance giant, who […]