Aon
2021 Global Risk Management Survey
Introduction
Aon’s 2021 Global Risk Management Survey is designed to offer organizations the insight necessary to enable better management of risk related volatility and compete in an increasingly complex business environment.
Conducted biennially, the survey gathered input from 2,344 respondents, covering 60 countries/territories and 16 key industry clusters, at public and private companies of all sizes.
The 2021 findings from the survey, which was conducted in 11 languages, underscore that companies
are grappling with new risks and highlights the differences of opinion on how to best prioritize and respond to them.
This report shows answers from survey respondents in this industry benchmarked against the overall respondent base.
We hope you find this report useful and encourage you to contact your Aon representative if you have any questions regarding its content.
Participant Locations
For the full list of countries/territories and additional participant demographics please refer to the appendix.
Risk Issues
This section looks at the current top ten most critical risks and the top five most critical future risks selected, as well as the top ten risks that incurred losses in the 12 months prior to this survey’s launch. It also contains an overview of mitigation actions chosen for the respective top ten risks.
All results are displayed as overall and industry selections.
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Top Ten Risks
For the full list of all 60 risks please refer to the appendix.
Global Top Ten Risks
- 1 Cyber Attacks/Data Breach
- 2 Business Interruption
- 3 Economic Slowdown/Slow Recovery
- 4 Commodity Price Risk/Scarcity of materials
- 5 Damage to Reputation/Brand
- 6 Regulatory/Legislative Changes
- 7 Pandemic Risk/Health Crises
- 8 Supply Chain or Distribution Failure
- 9 Increasing Competition
- 10 Failure to Innovate/Meet Customer Needs
Your Industry’s Top Ten Risks
- 1 Economic Slowdown/Slow Recovery
- 2 Cyber Attacks/Data Breach
- 3 Business Interruption
- 4 Pandemic Risk/Health Crises
- 5 Political Risk
- 6 Regulatory/Legislative Changes
- 7 Supply Chain or Distribution Failure
- 8 Damage to Reputation/Brand
- 9 Accelerated Rates of Change in Market Factors
- 10 Property Damage
