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September 17, 2025

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We. Communications Launches Reputation Forecast: A Board-Level Framework for Managing Reputation Value and Risk

We. Communications launches reputation forecast: A board-level framework for managing reputation value and risk for governance and ERM. The new offering combines financial-grade data from Steel City Re, the pioneering advisory firm behind reputation risk insurance, with We.’s full-stack communications intelligence including media monitoring, audience polling, social analytics and AI insights.

August 30, 2025

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All three reputation arbitrage indices informed by Steel City Re's reputation value metrics are outperforming the S&P500 this calendar year.

All three reputation arbitrage indices informed by Steel City Re’s reputation value metrics are outperforming the S&P500 this calendar year. 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 -3.18% to 22.7%. The spread between the two reputation-based price-only indices, REPUVAR and REPUSPX, is 23.34%.

August 16, 2025

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Insurance for reputation: risk is a misalignment between what a company does and says to which stakeholders respond financially." 

“In practical terms, reputation risk reflects the misalignment between what a company does and says, what various stakeholders expect and how they respond in financially relevant ways.  The choices and response of those stakeholders — buying, investing, advocating, protesting, regulating, criticizing or leaving — carry consequences for a business and its operating environment, and sometimes entire industries. These are the under appreciated and tangible costs of reputation risks worth considering with more ongoing foresight”…and financial solutions like reputation insurance and board-level Side R protections.

June 25, 2025

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DCRO Institute Guiding Principles for Reputation Risk Governance: Essential principles for Boards of Directors

The Guiding Principles from the DCRO Institute is a governance tool—for directors navigating complexity, convergence, and scrutiny. More than crisis management, these principles are a call to clarity—to governing reputation as both a mission-critical asset and a potential source of material risk. These Principles help directors avoid claims of culpability from activists, institutional investors and litigators that can create costly personal reputation losses that are not covered by D&O liability insurance.

May 14, 2025

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Disappointed stakeholders—the product of missed expectations and a feature of reputation damage—are a force to be reckoned with.

Disappointed stakeholders—the product of missed expectations and a feature of reputation damage—are a force to be reckoned with. Adidas chair in re-election fight as investors plot revolt. DWS, the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank, told the Financial Times that it would vote against Rabe’s re-election as chair of the German sportswear company’s advisory board at the annual meeting on Thursday because of a “repeated breach of expectations”.

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