Among natural disasters, wildfires are the great unknown. Even the most-sophisticated scientific models fail to capture all the risk factors...
Articles by Gautam Naik
The wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles are unlikely to trigger significant losses for catastrophe bonds designed to capture such risks....
Catastrophe-bond issuance rose to a record this year, increasing the overall market to almost $50 billion, as insurers transferred more...
The European Central Bank and the region’s insurance authority proposed a two-pronged approach to increase insurance coverage for floods, storms...
Top insurance companies suffered $10.6 billion of climate-attributed losses this year, just shy of the $11.3 billion of direct premiums...
After emerging from an unusually active hurricane season with market-beating returns, catastrophe bonds are rapidly adding investors. Despite the increase...
Starting Jan. 1, every company in Italy must buy insurance to protect its assets from floods, landslides and other natural...
After two weeks of number-crunching, it now seems clear that investors in catastrophe bonds emerged from Hurricane Milton relatively unscathed....
After fearing the worst from Hurricane Milton, investors in catastrophe bonds appear to have sustained losses well below those predicted...
Investors in catastrophe bonds are girding themselves for substantial losses as the combined destructive force of Hurricanes Helene and Milton...