Wildfire Losses Increasing But Still Small Compared to Hurricanes: KCC April 16, 2025 Wildfire losses in the U.S. are increasing, but the risk is still considerably smaller than hurricanes, according to a new...
Global Reinsurers’ ROE Jumps to 22% in 2023, but Market Softening Unlikely: AM Best November 1, 2024 By L.S. Howard AM Best’s population of global reinsurance companies posted a return on equity (ROE) of 22% in 2023 – a five-year...
KCC Expects Private Insured Losses of $36B From Hurricane Milton October 15, 2024 By Chad Hemenway Florida’s Hurricane Milton caused private insured losses of about $36 billion, estimated catastrophe modeler Karen Clark & Co. The estimate...
Catastrophe Bondholders Sidestep Large Losses From Weather-Related Calamities July 16, 2024 By Gautam Naik Last month, amid reports that Hurricane Beryl would become the earliest Category 5 hurricane in history, a group of money...
Damage From Hurricane Beryl May Cost Insurers $2.7B in US, $510M in Caribbean: KCC July 11, 2024 Insurers in the United States may take a hit of about $2.7 billion from damage caused by Hurricane Beryl, catastrophe...
Risk Models Behind Insurance-Linked Securities Are Getting a Lot Harder to Crack February 26, 2024 By Gautam Naik and Sheryl Tian Tong Lee As the best hedge fund strategy of 2023 becomes a magnet for mainstream investors, the risk models it relies on...
After $70 Billion Hit, Insurers Wake Up to Growing Risks of Severe Convective Storms January 25, 2024 By Gautam Naik The insurance industry is grappling with a new kind of weather risk that’s increasingly driving its biggest loss category. While...
Hedge Funds Rake in Huge Profits Betting on Catastrophe Risk January 22, 2024 By Gautam Naik and Sheryl Tian Tong Lee For hedge funds, the science of catastrophes helped generate the best returns of any alternative investment strategy last year. The...
AM Best: Japan Quake’s Effect on Insurers ‘Manageable; KCC Says Losses to Hit $6.4B January 5, 2024 By L.S. Howard The earnings impact on the major domestic non-life insurers of claims from the Jan. 1, 2024 earthquake in Japan is...
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...