Robinson , who served on Ronald Reagan’s National Security Council , runs Washington consulting firm Conflict Security Advisory Group. When the terrorists struck, he was already busy developing a service to help institutional investors assess the investment risks posed by global terrorism and by nuclear and biological weapons. “We take the longer view that the world is not becoming safer but more dangerous,” says Robinson, 51.
These days, that’s not a hard perspective to peddle to anxious clients. Robinson’s group and Washington’s Investor Responsibility Research Center plan to jointly offer the new service, called Global Risk Monitor, starting this month. Naturally, the details are “eyes only.”
A nuclear strike may be a lot tougher to contemplate than mere missed earnings, says former cold warrior Robinson, but investors dare not dismiss the pros-pect altogether. “This is a new category of risk,” says Robinson. “Over time it will become a boilerplate concern that institutional investors need to look at.”
