Resource scarcity tops extreme risk ranking for investors

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Food, water or energy shortage has replaced a global depression as the most pressing extreme risk faced by institutional investors, says Towers Watson.

The consultant's Extreme Risks 2013 report, which ranks low probability, high impact events, categorised stagnation and global temperature change as the second and third most serious threats. Th...

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