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Longevity The Ultimate Risk For Ageing Populations, Says John Piggott, Knowledge@Smu
Longevity The Ultimate Risk For Ageing Populations, Says John Piggott, Knowledge@Smu
Knowledge@SMU
The proportion of elderly people in the population is increasing with Japan leading the field globally. The long-run effect is to put an increased burden on the young to support them. John Piggott, research dean at the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, spoke on longevity as the ultimate risk in the 21st Century at a seminar organised by the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at the Singapore Management University at the end of last year.
Consensual Security Risk Assessment: Overcoming Bias, Conflicting Interests And Parochialism, Benjamin Beard, David J. Brooks
Consensual Security Risk Assessment: Overcoming Bias, Conflicting Interests And Parochialism, Benjamin Beard, David J. Brooks
Australian Security and Intelligence Conference
In a risk assessment process, insular methods of data collection and analysis may lead to an inaccurate risk assessment as stakeholders hold individual biases, conflicting interests and parochial approaches to certain risks. The article considered these issues and tested a consensual risk assessment approach that can overcome many of these issues. A staged risk assessment process was applied within an entertainment complex in the Security, and Food and Beverage Departments. Eight supervisors from the two departments participated in the study, with each participants individually interviewed on their view of predefined risks followed by the same risks discussed within a facilitated …