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Transferring Risk Helps Relieve Leaders’ Biggest Fears

Chief Executive

Political risk insurance is a highly specialized form of insurance that protects a company’s assets, investments, or contractual rights in foreign countries from losses caused by political events happening abroad.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

Third, people are over-optimistic and thus underestimate their own risk exposure. And the risks are real: Zillow’s research predicts that $400 billion dollars of real estate value in Florida could be at risk from climate change by the year 2100.

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How to Get Our Savings on the Move Again

Harvard Business Review

Some politicians claim that unsystematic loan losses, like the $2 billion loss JP Morgan recently suffered, significantly increase the risk of another financial crisis. A 30% drop in real estate prices, which systematically threatened all lenders with upwards of a trillion dollars of losses, caused the financial crisis.

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How to Get Our Savings on the Move Again

Harvard Business Review

Some politicians claim that unsystematic loan losses, like the $2 billion loss JP Morgan recently suffered, significantly increase the risk of another financial crisis. A 30% drop in real estate prices, which systematically threatened all lenders with upwards of a trillion dollars of losses, caused the financial crisis.

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Think About Any Risk Like an Investor

Harvard Business Review

Steve Starr, the owner of Starr Real Estate in Austin, Texas, was worried that Eve, his commercial leasing manager, was becoming a problem. When both Talbots and Laura Ashley collapsed in the financial crisis of 2008, Sara suddenly lost the vast majority of her revenues.

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

At the very basic level, protecting assets will also mean that operational leaders will move more equipment to the second floor of buildings (which one of my consumer products manufacturing clients has done in numerous locations). Real estate or hospitality companies with major coastal assets may want a Sea Level Rise Officer.