The global financial crisis has put risk firmly back on the corporate agenda and corporate risk-management practices are being sharpened. The search is on for highly trained risk professionals.

SMARTS group, the company founded by Professor Mike Aitken at the Australian School of Business, is to be sold to the NASDAQ Stock market.

Stratsec, an information security consulting company, has won the 2010 Telstra Australian Business of the Year Award.

The world’s leading researchers in Longevity Risk will discuss how to finance the ageing population at the Sixth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference.