The results of a sample survey of UK institutional investors (Solomon et al., 2000) provide support for the AAA/FASB and ICAEW view, as a significant number of respondents to the survey agreed that directors needed to provide more detailed risk disclosures rather than generalised statements of risk management policy. In identifying risk disclosures to be deficient, the institutional investors acknowledge that it is important to be able to assess the risk profile of a company and this is only possible if relevant risk information is provided(Linsley and Shrives, 2005).