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Riesgo de que la clave para el futuro de exploración de cobre

Mar Abr 17, 2012 7:57 am GMT
 
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Por Josefina Mason

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Las grandes mineras de cobre necesario para la exploración de nuevos yacimientos en los destinos más riesgosos para compensar caída de la producción de las minas de envejecimiento y para satisfacer la creciente demanda de metal refinado, y es probable que tenga que hacer todo el trabajo ellos mismos en lugar de

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  1. RESUMEN

En el presente articulo se detallan una serie de acciones y/o recomendaciones conducentes a que los ingenieros iniciemos la implementación de nuevas metodologías, tales como: Gerencia de Proyectos simultáneamente con la Gestión de Calidad y los Costos de Calidad, de esta forma se espera que las probabilidades de éxito de los proyectos se incremente, y como consecuencia la eficiencia de las inversiones en los proyectos aumentarán para beneplácito de todos los que sostenemos este país media

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LA PROBLEMÁTICA DEL RIESGO EN LOS PROYECTOS DE INFRAESTRUCTURA Y EN LOS CONTRATOS INTERNACIONALES DE CONSTRUCCIÓN.

Por: Maximiliano Rodríguez Fernández

 

Consideraciones Finales.

  • Los proyectos de construcción e infraestructura son riesgosos por naturaleza. Ello Genera la necesidad de establecer políticas de manejo y administración de riesgo adecuada a las necesidades de cada proyecto.
  • Las dificultades de los participantes en los proyectos de construcción e infraestructura surgen, en la mayoría de los
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Cyber Threats

What is the most serious cyber threat at present?

Phishing, Trojans, cross site scripting, SQL Injection or other?

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Compliance new round up

FSA warns FCA may change discretionary firms  

The FSA has in recent months warned the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which will take over conduct regulation when the FSA is split by the end of the year, will take a more aggressive approach to intervening in the design of financial products. Linda Woodall, head of the savings and investments department at the FSA, told Investment Adviser that “some development” may be required from discretionary fund managers (DFMs) in particular under the FC

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Wondering whether a company is going well or bad? If it is large or small? If it is profitable? Thanks to s-peek it is now possible to understand these easily.

s-peek is the unique free mobile application that allows you to understand and assess the economic reliability of each company in Europe (from Portugal to Russia, from Finland to Turkey).

Thanks to s-peek you can access to the rating, credit limit, financial information of over twenty million companies and download easily detailed reports b

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Banks capital reserve practices

The European Banking Authority released a statement indicating that gaps exist in the capital standards for about 20% of the regions top 48 largest banks. Meanwhile, the Bank for International Settlements has posted a relatively positive report on Asian banks loan reserve practices.

Are Asian banks in front of the game for capital management than their European counterparts?

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This is a copy of the latest CompliSpace blog orginally published at http://http://complispace.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/10-reasons-why-your-enterprise-risk-management-program-wont-work/.  Would love to get your feedback.

In our last blog post we boldly asserted “If You’re Not Practicing Enterprise Risk Management You Should Be”.

So it was with great interest that we came across an article in Risk Management Magazine titled “Is ERM Failing?” which basically summarised the finding of a 2012 PwC repo

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Correlate your risk factors

Dimensioning Dependency, Correlation, Causality and Mutuality for multiple risk factors is an important modelling exercise risk analysts should entertain. Not doing so is one of the reasons why CAPM is busted.

Let’s look at a very straight forward method for measuring correlation in risk variables and for propagating a final outcome.

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Is your risk management program on target ?

This Conference will help you to get the benefits of referring to the ISO 31000 standard.

With more than 30+ speakers, 4 plenary sessions, 10 parallel sessions including training opportunities, this international conference is the risk management event of the year.

Our Pre-eminent Speakers

20 years of Risk Management Standardisation - Past, Present and Future

Kevin W Knight. Chairman of ISO Working Group that developed ISO 31000 – Australia

Why every RM prog

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Strategy and Risk for the iPad

Designing an organisation’s Strategy & Risk Management framework does not have to be difficult. Strategy and Risk Consultancy, Manigent, have created an innovative new way for risk and compliance practitioners to quickly develop and document their strategy and risk model: Strategy and Risk Studio for iPad.

Strategy & Risk Studio is a one-of-a-kind application enabling consultants and practitioners to design and define an organisation’s enterprise performance management, enterprise risk management

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WHERE: http://www.brighttalk.com/r/c7B

With the rising costs of data leaks and the increasing ROI of proactively securing data, 2012 is seeing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) become a priority for IT professionals. Strong DLP strategies are helping companies lower their risk of security breaches and the threats associated with the emergence of cloud computing and the consumerization of IT. This summit will reacquaint IT professionals with the pillars of a strong DLP foundation while introducing cutti

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What is wrong with VaR

Value at Risk (VaR) is often criticised. This is especially the case from those who don't use it, no surprise there and I label such propaganda as statistical xenophobia by the masses.

In this post we look at the problems with VaR and what can be done to improve this measure of potential downside.

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It is a time of clichés for banks as they currently find themselves caught in a Catch-22, stuck between a rock and a hard place. In the UK, government initiatives such as ‘Project Merlin’ have been put in place to encourage banks to lend more freely. At the same time, new regulations or initiatives such as Basel III, Recovery and Resolution plans and leverage limits are coming to the fore, increasing the capital adequacy and liquidity requirements for banks around the world. So how do banks walk

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(A report from 
the Economist Intelligence Unit)

More than ever, boards and senior management want to understand overall risk exposures, and be provided with clear, consistent information in a timely manner. With corporate governance legislation increasingly stressing the importance of personal liability and accountability for executives and non-executives, companies cannot afford to be in the dark about their risk position

 Visibility into decision making can help preserve a company’s reputatio

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Problems with Probability

In probability, there are orders of thinking which are wrong. Nassim Taleb ~ Should we ban the use of probability? Why we don't know what we talk about when we talk about probability has been revisited by its original author Nassim Taleb in a recent publication on his Fooled by Randomness portal. Great claims are being made in this paper that perhaps we should ban the use of probability and sometimes the best discoveries seem to occur when we explore dynamics at their extremities. This might jus
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Research from the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors has revealed that more than half of the fines handed out by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in 2011 were as a result of weak internal risk management systems. 

Fines can be issued by the FSA when organisations breach any of the eleven principles (operational and ethical). The research announced by the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors this week, shows that 60% of the FSA’s fines in 2011 were as a result of weak risk manage

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Is My Local Insurance Company Really Solvent (INT206)

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Many companies now operate globally, have partners that are global or are part of the global supply chain. Risk managers are tasked with setting up compliant global insurance programs while also managing processes to ensure their operating divisions, partners and suppliers have appropriate insurance in place. Even with a global insurance program anchored by a financially sound multinational insurance
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