Podcast #11: Boards Reject Personal Reputation Harm as the Price of Board Service: D&O Reputation Insurance Enhances Governance: In this episode, after an outspoken director on the board of Netflix finds herself in political crosshairs, directors demand protection from the personal cost of chaos-driven events.
The reputation premium-seeking RepuSPX, a reputation arbitrage portfolio, is out-performing the S&P500 Index by 435.73%
Over the past five years, on average, Steel City Re’s algorithm has identified approximately five names each week that seemed expensive and potential short-sell opportunities. At the close of markets, on 30 January 2026, Steel City Re’s algorithm identified 22 names. It is an unusually high number, statistically greater than three standard deviations from the mean.
The reputation premium-seeking RepuSPX is out-performing the S&P500 Index by 398.87% The trailing twelve month spreads over the S&P500 of the three reputation-linked indices comprising RepuStars Variety Corporate Reputation Composite Equity Index family range from 3.43 to 14.19%.
The issue at Campbell’s is neither one of compliance nor enterprise risk management, but rather one of reputation risk governance. The question is therefore how did reputation resilience become so impaired that that one-year old stupid comment by an allegedly impaired senior executive, then into his 5th month of employment, exposed weak governance, reputation risk management, and reputation crisis management?
As of December 26, 2025, the reputation premium-seeking RepuSPX is out-performing the S&P500 Index by 401.1%
To recruit and retain robust diverse boards, companies need the protection of Steel City Re’s Side R® D&O parametric reputation insurance.
The reputation premium-seeking RepuSPX is out-performing the S&P500 Index by 408.6%. The metrics also enable parametric reputation insurance.
Risk governance disclosures boosted equity value relative to peers at 1, 28, 56, and 84 days by averages of 0.3%, 5.6%, 3.7% and 4.1%.
The shifting landscape of social and cultural norms have made reputation risk—which threatens liquidity—more prevalent, costly to firms, and personal to corporate leadership. Risk professionals are now describing reputation risk as a threat to resilience rather than a PR problem. Communications executives are using new reputation risk governance and management intelligence tools, and both the American Law Institute and the DCRO Risk Governance Institute are recommending reputation insurance for companies and their boards.