FORESTRY & INTEGRATED WOOD PRODUCTS

The Forest Products Industry Practice of Marsh blends insight and experience with innovative thinking to provide solutions that create real economic value for clients. These clients benefit from Marsh's extensive network of contacts and relationships that includes virtually every insurer in the world, capital markets, thousands of client organisations, and countless service providers.   

Forestry and Integrated Wood Products

Successfully managing the unique risk profile of the forest products industry is critical to providing a competitive advantage in a global marketplace.

The Forest Products Industry Practice of Marsh blends insight and experience with innovative thinking to provide solutions that create real economic value for clients. These clients benefit from Marsh's extensive network of contacts and relationships that includes virtually every insurer in the world, capital markets, thousands of client organisations, and countless service providers.

Marsh's Risk Consulting specialists address recurring risk issues in the forest products industry to help clients effectively develop and implement risk solutions when managing a business. Our innovative solutions for the forest products industry include:

  • Risk Fusion ™, a program that economically packages uncorrelated risks;
  • Dual trigger programs, an innovative approach to structuring retained risks;
  • Mergers and acquisitions and due diligence solutions, to assist in handling M&As on short notice; and
  • Environmental services, which provide environmental clean up, cost capping, and risk strategy services.
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Windstorms, Earthquakes, Floods: Using Catastrophe Modeling to Strategic Advantage
May 20, 2011  |  Views: 869 |  Comments: 0 
Windstorms, Earthquakes, Floods: Using Catastrophe Modeling to Strategic Advantage
Listen to the replay of our May 18, 2011, New Reality of Risk Webcast.  Read More...
Preparing for a Changing Market
January 25, 2012  |  Views: 742 |  Comments: 0 
Preparing for a Changing Market
This publication is a synopsis of presentations made at Marsh's fourth annual Client Conference in London, 6 December 2011.   Read More...
Webcast Replay - After the Earthquake: Supply Chain Resiliency
May 26, 2011  |  Views: 1618 |  Comments: 0  | Article Rating
Webcast Replay - After the Earthquake: Supply Chain Resiliency
A replay of our New Realilty of Risk Webcast covering supply chain resiliency. The devastating earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear events in Japan were only the latest in a string of ...  Read More...
The UK Bribery Act 2010 - guidance April 2011
May 25, 2011  |  Views: 725 |  Comments: 0 
The UK Bribery Act 2010 - guidance April 2011
For the past year we have been commenting on the new bribery laws passed in the Bribery Act 2010.On 30 March 2011 the Ministry of Justice published long-awaited guidance on the pro...  Read More...
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Risk Fusion™
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Risk Fusion™
The volatility in the price of both raw materials and finished goods has long had a highly disruptive effect on the forest products industry. Risk Fusion packages many uncorrelated...  Read More...
Benchmarking services
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Benchmarking services
The Benchmarking Portal's rapidly growing database contains information on nearly 90,000 policies covering $US50 billion in premium placements, $US4 trillion in limits, and $US15.5...  Read More...
Best practices for property programs in the forestry industry
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Best practices for property programs in the forestry industry
The Forest Products Practice has benchmarked best practices extensively on property and casualty programs, in addition to a variety of other risk management topics.   Read More...
Bowring Marsh: Global Casualty
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Bowring Marsh: Global Casualty
Bowring Marsh’s global Casualty team comprises more than 60 dedicated brokers located in Bermuda, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Miami, São Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo and Zurich. Our glob...  Read More...
Brand and reputation risk
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Brand and reputation risk
Companies can damage their brand image and reputation in numerous ways: poor service, a drop in product quality, environmental harm and unfair treatment of staff are some of the mo...  Read More...
Business interruption insurance
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Business interruption insurance
Losses from Business Interruption (BI) are often far greater than other losses such as property damage.   Read More...
CS STARS
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CS STARS
CS STARS LLC, a business unit of Marsh, serves the technology needs of risk management professionals, as well as insurance carriers and third-party administrators — delivering inte...  Read More...
Environmental solutions for the forestry industry
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Environmental solutions for the forestry industry
Recent deals structured for forest products industry clients demonstrate our ability to deliver a broad range of services associated with providing environmental clean-up, cost cap...  Read More...
Mergers and acquisitions/due diligence for the forestry industry
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Mergers and acquisitions/due diligence for the forestry industry
Further consolidation in the forest products industry is to be expected. At the same time, shareholders are demanding a higher return on their investment. This creates a need for f...  Read More...
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Soft commercial insurance market conditions expected to persist in fourth quarter of 2010
November 19, 2010  |  Views: 1175 |  Comments: 0 
Soft commercial insurance market conditions expected to persist in fourth quarter of 2010
Soft commercial insurance market conditions are expected to persist through the fourth quarter of 2010, according to preliminary rate information published last week by Marsh.  Read More...
Marsh CEO: Insurance industry needs differentiation, innovation
May 25, 2010  |  Views: 1653 |  Comments: 0  | Article Rating
Marsh CEO: Insurance industry needs differentiation, innovation
Marsh chairman and CEO Dan Glaser described the multiple challenges facing the risk management and insurance communities in a recent speech to insurance industry leaders at InsideS...  Read More...
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February 07, 2011  |  Views: 1486
Soft insurance market conditions set to continue into 2011: Marsh
Soft commercial insurance market conditions persisted throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in 2010 and are set to continue into 2011, according to a comprehensive r...  Read More...
August 23, 2010  |  Views: 716
Russian fires should prompt review of business continuity plans
Moscow, 23 August 2010 – Following the devastating peatland and forest fires in Russia and resultant smog in Moscow and the surrounding regions, Marsh is urging affected organisati...  Read More...
July 21, 2010  |  Views: 720
Bowring Marsh opens Hong Kong office
Hong Kong, 21 July 2010 – Bowring Marsh, the Specialist International Placement Broker at Marsh, has expanded its footprint in Asia with the opening in Hong Kong of its ninth offic...  Read More...
November 23, 2009  |  Views: 1045
Customer-related and credit risks top agendas for Europe’s leading firms
New research by Marsh, the world’s leading insurance broker and risk adviser, reveals that senior executives in Europe’s leading organisations are most concerned about customer-rel...  Read More...
August 26, 2009  |  Views: 1025
Excess capacity and competition stifling insurance rate increases in Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Insurance premium rate reductions slowed for property and casualty business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in the first half of 2009, according to figures released today...  Read More...

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Jim McCluskey

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