Anticipate risks and opportunities

No one likes surprises. Even "good news" can have negative consequences.

We have built our business on harnessing the experience and seasoned judgement of our network to create forward-looking analysis for our clients.

We help you prepare for geopolitical disruption and anticipate risks and opportunities in macronomic developments.

  • Risk Consulting

    Working directly with risk managers or senior executives, we profile your risks. We then harness our unique network to look at current and future trends affecting those risks.

  • Strategic Analysis Consulting

    We help you develop strategy, enhancing your focus on competitors and customers, with an understanding of macro forces

  • Global Stress Point Matrix™

    Monitors high impact / low probability events, whether global or particular to your organisation, using a unique, powerful methodology.

  • Daily Brief Services

    Our flagship subscription services answer the question "What will happen next?" Clients benefit from our close monitoring and unique judgement of geopolitical and macroeconomic trends, risks and opportunities arising worldwide.

  • Syndicated Research

    Study-length analysis of the outlook for particular issues and regions - essential reading when risks and opportunities in those areas are important to you.

  • Conferences

    Our conferences bring together leaders and experts to look at global and regional trends, shaping the agenda together to include the major risks you face.

Case Study

Strategic Early Warning

The Client

A global financial services company

The Issue

This international financial services provider required a system for identifying potential risks and opportunities across its business lines and exposures.

The Approach

Our Risk Practice undertook a comprehensive mapping of the client’s businesses which identified and prioritised key business drivers and exposures.

We set up a monitoring service driven by our network of experts, where we analyse events and trends affecting those drivers and the company’s interests.

Reports delivered quarterly flag significant risks and opportunities, supported by regular meetings.

The Result

The client’s Risk Committee uses our analysis as a principal input to their deliberations.