Founded by Boris Agranovich in 2010, the Global Risk Community (GRC) is the world’s leading community for Risk Managers. According to its official information, GRC is also the world’s first crowdsourced training platform for Risk Managers. GRC provides hundreds of materials and resources in its website, among which videos and very interesting podcasts. Today we are […]
Conference: Risk Awareness Week (RAW) 2021
The Risk Awareness Week 2021 is upcoming! It will be 5 days of the most interesting workshops and will occur between 11th and 15th of October. This event is considered to be the biggest virtual conference about Risk Management topics, delivering more than 50 interactive workshops with more than 30 speakers, including the best Risk […]
10 Risk Professionals You Should Follow
Whether you’ve just started in Risk Management or you’re already a professional in this arena, this article will interest you. We are highlighting some of the reference professionals we follow who are seasoned Risk Managers, each in its own area of expertise. Most of these professionals have lengthy experience in Risk Management and are at […]
Agriculture Industry: Trading and Risk Management
There is a race on across the globe towards increasing productivity and efficiency in the agriculture industry and making the businesses more sustainable. What we need is a fundamental shift in the way agriculture companies handle trading and risk operations and processes. Continuous pressure to increase operational efficiency, decrease reaction times, drive efficient collaboration and […]
7 Risk Assessment Blind Spots (and How to Beat Them)
You’ve all been there, driving along knowing you can predictably change lanes with ease, when suddenly a car shows up in your blind spot. You swerve back to your lane and everyone in your car is startled to attention, wondering what happened and knowing you messed up. Or, you’re walking down the sidewalk, consumed by […]
Chimp-Throwing Darts: Problems with Expert’s Future Predictions
I am always in search of free online resources regarding diverse outlooks on risk. Recently I stumbled upon a great source of risk related concepts after listening to an episode of The Knowledge Project podcast which featured a guest, I was unfamiliar with. This guest, some sort of investment expert, started catching my attention with […]
Why Portfolio Diversification is for the Ignorant Investor
Preface The Risk Management Guru (RMG) blog was founded in October 2015 with a very clear sense of purpose: to become the go-to blog for the best articles about Risk Management. Almost 5 years on and we are proud of the footprint we have created so far, with a special emphasis on our most read […]
5 Quotes All Risk Leaders Should Live By
Quotes are collections of words that can transcend time creating literary legends in as few as one breath. Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Gandhi, Bukowski, Emerson, Hemingway, and even Gordon Gecko have given us quotes that make us think, motivate us to act, and even question the world around us. I have always been a sucker for […]