catastrophe model

Fermat Capital Management, one of the largest specialist investment managers of catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets, has licensed the Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) HurLoss hurricane model, as it seeks to add new insights from additional views of risk.

Catastrophe risk modelling specialist Karen Clark & Company (KCC) has announced the launch of complete stochastic climate-conditioned catalogs for the weather-related perils its sees as the most impacted by climate change, hurricanes, floods, and wildfires.

One Concern, a resilience-as-a-service solutions provider with a focus on providing upfront information on potential financial impacts of climate related loss events, has appointed former RMS employee Tim Kinsella as its Executive Director, Sales – P&C Insurance.

When it came to analysing hurricane Ian’s approach and potential landfall impacts, the uncertainty in modelled outputs on the storm can be helpful, but really the details and parameters of this major hurricane matter most, Aeolus Capital Management’s Pete Dailey explained yesterday.

AXA Climate, the parametric specialist risk transfer managing general agent (MGA) unit of global insurance and reinsurance company AXA, has selected the HWind product from risk modeller RMS to use as a trigger data provider for parametric insurance policies.

In comments made this afternoon during the second-quarter earnings call of Bermuda based reinsurance and third-party capital management specialist RenaissanceRe, the company’s CEO Kevin O’Donnell said the catastrophe modelling vendors are failing to robustly capture the effects of climate change.

Insurance and reinsurance broker Aon is embedding climate change considerations into its Impact Forecasting flood catastrophe risk models for Europe, thanks to a collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

One Concern, a resilience-as-a-service solutions provider with a focus on providing upfront information on potential financial impacts of climate related loss events, and broker plus advisor WTW, have teamed up with a goal to accelerate the adoption of parametric insurance solutions.

Catastrophe risk modelling software specialist RMS has announced a number of its core models transitioning over to High Definition (HD) versions, while also adding more functionality to help users understand the influence of climate change on perils of note to the insurance, reinsurance and ILS market.

Investors are becoming increasingly engaged in understanding how climate change could affect portfolios of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and the work that is being done at investment managers to understand that, with many taking the time to “come back to the table”, according to Aeolus Capital Management’s Frank Fischer.