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Interactive Brokers’ ForecastEx platform, which allows investors to buy ‘yes’ or ‘no’ contracts based on stated outcomes for specific indicators, is currently seeing temperature contracts as the most frequently traded on the platform, according to the firm’s founder and chairman Thomas Peterffy.

Following the launch of Interactive Brokers’ ForecastEx platform, which allows investors to buy ‘yes’ or ‘no’ contracts based on stated outcomes for specific indicators, Artemis spoke to Patrick Brown, Head of Climate Analytics at the firm, about how these contracts allow investors to access risk-linked returns, as well as some of the key advantages they […]

Making adjustments to the exposure of insurance-linked securities (ILS) portfolios based on inputs gleaned from the early July hurricane season forecast can drive opportunities to generate excess returns in reinsurance, according to a study from Euler ILS Partners and Tropical Storm Risk (TSR).

Remember HURLOs? Hurricane Risk Landfall Options? They were launched in October 2008 by Weather Risk Solutions, LLC (WRS) and promised a mutualized marketplace for hurricane options (our previous coverage here and here). To date they’ve been dabbled with by investment professionals but we haven’t heard a great deal more until today.