April 20, 2024
Reputation arbitrage premium: The reputation premium-seeking RepuSPX is out-performing the S&P500 Index by 382.16%
D&Os
April 7, 2024
“Unsavory” may be forgiven, if not forgotten. Speculation aside, objectively, none of Steel City Re’s reputation risk measures indicated a problem with MSGE. The obvious benefit of such objective metrics is that it protects CEOs’ reputation-linked compensation and shields boards from attacks. Is your reputation risk management process insurance-authenticated?
March 25, 2024
The new program “will create new incentives for individuals to report misconduct,” “If anything (said a defense lawyer), I think you’re going to see more scrutiny on this, […] And the risks are increasing.” The increased risk of discovering an adverse event is not unlike placing an additional bullet in the chamber in a game of Russian Roulette. But with risks increasing to all companies, and risk being the basis for discounting value, all companies will be equally discounted. That will be hard to appreciate in a stock market that is soaring. Until it isn’t. That’s where we come in. With reputation risk forecasting, management, and insurance, Steel City Re helps companies build and prove to stakeholders their thoughtful risk management and dutiful governance over all that is mission-critical. It is an authenticated story stakeholders can appreciate and value.
January 23, 2024
$5 trillion worth of shareholder votes want more ERM this year. The investment stewardship team at Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, will put “increased focus on how companies are strengthening financial resilience.” It is a is a challenge Steel City Re has been anticipating since 2007.
January 6, 2024
Southwest Airlines reputation crisis. At crisis day 375, Southwest equity is under performing the S&P500 index by 41.4%. Steel City Re’ Resilience Monitor warned that an operational failure was likely to trigger a reputation crisis.
December 12, 2023
Environmental issue? Investors scrutinizing! According to Kossovsky, shareholders seem most concerned about the impact of fines and other costs, but, in the long run, usually don’t expect environmental incidents to materially impair revenue.
November 24, 2023
![“Over the course of four days at NACD Summit 2023, speakers pushed nearly 1,500 in-person and virtual attendees to think about new approaches and ways of thinking about their roles as directors in a world of crisis. […] One area that is an emerging risk in today’s environment is a company’s reputation. ‘We failed to predict that trust could be a target, just like information systems, and that there are entities out there that want you to diminish trust in our institutions…’”](https://steelcityre.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20231122b-Steel-City-Re-1.jpg)
“Over the course of four days at NACD Summit 2023, speakers pushed nearly 1,500 in-person and virtual attendees to think about new approaches and ways of thinking about their roles as directors in a world of crisis. […] One area that is an emerging risk in today’s environment is a company’s reputation. ‘We failed to predict that trust could be a target, just like information systems, and that there are entities out there that want you to diminish trust in our institutions…’”
October 16, 2023
![Mitigate value-destroying legal risk. For Fox, Kossovsky said. “This new reputation at FOX Corporation, if it [is] indeed forming, is or will be value-destroying.”](https://steelcityre.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20231016b-Steel-City-Re.jpg)
Fox experienced a surge in reputational risk in the summer of 2021, according to reputational risk insurance provider Steel City Re’s resilience monitor. […] “Reputation risk is usually triggered by missed expectations,” Kossovsky said. “Arguably, stakeholders expected that Rupert Murdoch would once again pull the organization back from the brink after an ethically questionable strategy went sour. They’ve been disappointed.”
October 13, 2023
In the past six months, more than $130 billion in shareholder value was lost by 39 banks due to reputational risk—the risk of unmet stakeholder expectations resulting in incinerated business value–flawed stakeholder intelligence.
October 11, 2023
Steel City Re CEO and former Los Angeles County deputy coroner on what derailed the ESG movement & what boards expect from risk management in the aftermath.