Wall Street Is Gaining Access to New Catastrophe Models to Help Predict Wars June 15, 2026 By Gautam Naik As Wall Street races to incorporate war into its risk scenarios, the same people modeling natural catastrophes are now adapting...
Viewpoint: Rethinking Basis Risk in Structured Insurance Solutions September 11, 2025 By Matt Coleman Insurance solutions—more broadly referred to as risk transfer—that are parametric in design have become a common point of conversation between...
Natural Disasters to Cause $151 Billion in Annual Insurer Losses September 4, 2024 By Gautam Naik Urban expansion, property exposure and climate change could fuel a 40% increase in annual natural-catastrophe losses for the global insurance...
Catastrophe Bonds Use Models Underestimating Climate Risks, Investors Say May 13, 2024 By Gautam Naik The risk models that helped drive one of the most lucrative bets of 2023 are increasingly being tested by smaller...
Tech Update: Verisk Launches Next Generation Catastrophe Models April 8, 2024 Verisk, the Jersey City, New Jersey-based data analytics and technology provider, has launched a suite of next generation catastrophe models....
Tech Update: Xceedance Offers Cat Modeling Services to Reinsurers During Renewals October 13, 2023 Xceedance, a global provider of strategic operations support, technology, and data services to insurance organizations, announced the launch of burst...
The Care and Feeding of Property-Catastrophe Models September 7, 2023 By L.S. Howard Executive summary: The key to getting useful model results is working with models that fit specific underwriting needs and making...
Aon Updates Europe Windstorm, Severe Convective Storm Models March 13, 2023 Aon plc, a leading global professional services firm, updated its Impact Forecasting Europe Windstorm and Severe Convective Storm (SCS) catastrophe...
Insurtech Reask Gets Funding to Deliver Next-Generation Natural Disaster Modeling January 20, 2022 Insurtech Reask, an Australian science and technology company that focuses on natural hazard modeling, announced it has closed its seed...
Willis Re Launches Flood Model for MENA Region September 30, 2021 Willis Re has launched a new flood model for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which enables re/insurers...