Reputation Risk Solutions

More than just insurance, we help you build and validate your firm’s thoughtful risk management and dutiful governance over all that is mission-critical.

Great companies with the most sophisticated boards will sometimes disappoint stakeholders. In our increasingly chaotic economic and political business environment, some customers, employees, regulators or investors will feel betrayed and act.

This is reputation risk—now less predictable, governable, or manageable.

For companies that are not resilient, adverse stakeholder actions can create long-term term financial harm. Investors will have their day in a court of law. D&O liability insurance sides A, B, and C will typically cover costs.

Investors and others will have their day in the court of public opinion. Executives and directors whose reputations are tarnished may be asked to leave with the loss of current compensation and, more significantly, future opportunities. Only reputation insurance (Side R) will cover these costs.

Benefits to companies that are resilient include customers buying, not boycotting; employees working, not fleeing; investors buying, not selling; lenders adjusting interest rates down, not up; regulators deferring, not enforcing; and social license holders acquiescing, not protesting. But even in resilient firms, stakeholders may still demand a “fall guy.”

Steel City Re’s strategic tools help risk managers build corporate resilience by forecasting reputation risk and protecting enterprise value. We help companies, c-suites, and boardrooms mitigate personal costs with strategic insurance.

Steel City Re is a reputation risk specialist forging reputation resilience through risk forecasting, management, and insurance.

Forecast Reputation Risk

Our Resilience Monitor is the world’s only objective, forward-looking AI-powered indicator of a company’s reputation value and risk. It provides timely quantitative measurements for risk strategies.


Protect Enterprise Value

Our Reputation Risk Strategy Framework includes advisory tools for risk managers to combine external human intelligence with existing ERM practices, and communicate the effectiveness of strategic risk management.


Insure Risk Strategically

For corporate resilience to have value, stakeholders must discover and trust it. We support that with the world’s only strategic parametric reputation risk captive insurance and reinsurance solutions.


Latest News And Commentary

As SEC sees it, we live in a Manichean world where allies are pliant, and anyone who is anything else, is an activist. No more engagement to offer a gentle nudge. "Investors that threaten to vote against directors' reelection if the company is not aligned with their stewardship policies or views on environmental, social or governance issues will not be considered passive and must instead file a Schedule 13D as activists, according to a new compliance and disclosure interpretation released by the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance this week.
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The spreads since inception of RepuSPX, RepuVAR, and RepuVART (Total returns) are 330.46%, 201.48% and 521.11% greater that returns of the S&P500, respectively.
The spreads since inception of RepuSPX, RepuVAR, and RepuVART (Total returns) are 330.46%, 201.48% and…
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Reputation risk: financial damage from emotional stakeholders who are angered, or worst, feel betrayed. “We laid out the strategic and budget plan for 2025 expecting that American products, including American whiskey, will be less accepted by those countries outside of the US because of first, tariffs and, second, emotion,” said Takeshi Niinami, chief executive of drinks giant Suntory Holdings.
Reputation risk: financial damage from emotional stakeholders who are angered, or worst, feel betrayed. “We…
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Target failed to warn investors of risks associated with its mandates regarding its ESG/DEI initiatives.
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Securities class-action lawsuits increased. There were 225 filings last year, up from 215 in 2023 and 208 in 2022.
Securities class-action lawsuits increased. There were 225 filings last year, up from 215 in 2023…
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"Whether they condone, condemn or ignore such comments, some dutiful and conscientious board members will paradoxically suffer personal reputational harm if aggrieved stakeholders feel betrayed."
Public comments made by Cleveland-Cliffs’ CEO and chair against Japan and Nippon Steel that appeared…
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The reputation premium-seeking RepuSPX is out-performing the S&P500 Index by 333.42%
The reputation premium-seeking RepuSPX is out-performing the S&P500 Index by 333.42%
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So, sustained loss ratios: stable returns, higher returns, and IP-protected extended returns over years,” explained Kossovsky.
Steel City Re is the world’s only provider of parametric reputation insurance offerings, leveraging a…
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Moral hazard has stalled progress in reputation risk insurance, but parametric solutions could help insurers meet growing demand and seize new opportunities. [...] The global reputation crisis can help carriers appreciate how parametric technology can accelerate solutions for emerging risks.
Moral hazard has stalled progress in reputation risk insurance, but parametric solutions could help insurers…
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