Switzerland’s unique status within the European economy has helped it to so far avoid the worst of the recent economic and financial turmoil and the relatively high proportion of privately owned companies in the country is an added bonus as it eases short-term pressures to an extent. But Swiss risk managers are just as preoccupied with the big economic risks such as supply chain as their peers within the European Union as Adrian Ladbury discovered during the recent Risk Frontiers roundtable with a group of leading Swiss risk managers in Zurich.