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Read moreInsights Survey of Pension Funds 2013 One of the greatest potential threats to future global prosperity is a lack of key infrastructure in both emerging and developed economies. In response, Oliver Wyman’s Global Risk Center is participating in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s “Institutional Investors and Long-Term Investment” project. -
Read moreInsights A New Paradigm The financial services industry is six years into the crisis and much attention has been paid to new regulations, but not enough awareness has been placed on the 'softer' issues that render serious problems much less likely. -
Read moreInsights Transport & Logistics Journal 2013 The 2013 edition of Oliver Wyman’s Transport & Logistics journal focuses on innovation. -
Read moreInsights Rising Public Scrutiny of Infrastructure Projects Before Sao Paulo city tried to raise bus fares by 20 percent in June, Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, enjoyed approval ratings above 70 percent. But in a few short weeks her popularity plummeted, causing pundits to question her chances for re-election in 2014, while some in her party called on former president Lula da Silva to return. -
Read moreInsights Dawn of New Era in Commodity Trading - Act II Almost every month since Baar-based commodity trader Glencore completed its $80 billion merger with Zug-based mining giant Xstrata in May of 2013, independent commodity traders have bought about $1 billion in assets from commodity producers. Traders are snapping up everything from zinc and coal mines to soybean crushing plants and wheat mills as the commodity-trading industry undergoes its largest transformation in 30 years. -
Read moreInsights Doing it Right A government-owned infrastructure development company wanted to build the largest highway project in its history. But the board of directors of the public authority became concerned when the project began to suffer from delays. -
Read moreInsights Getting Things Done One of the greatest potential threats to global prosperity is a lack of critical infrastructure for transportation, energy, and water and the rapid deterioration of much of what is currently in place. -
Read moreInsights Sustainable Energy Policies for Sustainable Energy Sustainable energy needs sustainable policy. By 2030, the United Nations hopes there will be universal access to modern energy services, a doubling of the share of renewable energy sources in the global energy mix, and a doubling of the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency. -
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Insights Fed Stress Tests Add Risk to the Financial System On March 14, after the markets closed, the 29 banks that hold about three-quarters of US banking assets waited to hear if they passed or failed the Federal Reserve’s annual stress tests. The results seemed reassuring. The Fed gave a passing grade to 14 and a failing grade to two, required two others to address some additional weakness by later this year, and didn’t disclose its conclusions about the 11 smaller institutions. -
Read moreInsights Financial Crisis of 2015 In 2011 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Oliver Wyman published The Financial Crisis of 2015: An Avoidable History. This report contained a six-page “virtual history,” which described a potential crisis scenario that might unfold over the coming four years. -
Read moreInsights When Risks Collide Two storms – environmental and economic – are on a collision course. The world’s exposure to natural catastrophes is rising, butour ability to deal with these shocks is decreasing because of the weakened fiscal positions of many governments. -
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Insights Redefining Industries The four articles in this chapter examine how these developments and others are redefining entire industries, ranging from the oil and gas sector to consumer products to airlines. -
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Insights Rethinking Tactics The five articles in this chapter take a look at what companies are doing tactically to react to short-term challenges such as the rising cost of over-the-counter derivatives, increasingly volatile financial results, inadequate human capital resources, digital online service outages, and cyber risks. -
Read moreInsights Revamping Business Models Companies are struggling to differentiate between rewarded and unrewarded risks. North America's hydrocarbon boom is making once far-off possibilities like filling your car tank with gasoline made from natural gas near-term realities. -
Read moreInsights Emerging Risks The seven articles in this chapter discuss how emerging risks are forming the backdrop of a new risk management landscape – and how companies can raise their game to deal with them.reshaping their business models and changing tactics in reaction to some of these trends. Other perspectives examine how new developments are redefining entire industries, ranging from financial services to energy. -
Read moreInsights Controlling Volatility The first recorded instance of insurance took place in China in the third millennium B.C. Merchants traveling treacherous river rapids would redistribute their wares across many vessels to limit the loss should any of the vessels capsize.
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