industry loss index

PERILS AG, the Zurich-based independent provider of industry-wide European catastrophe insurance data and loss indices, has published an update on its progress and how widely used its data has become. The service has a primary focus on European windstorm loss data and indices for construction of industry-loss based catastrophe bonds, ILW’s and private transactions, but […]

PERILS AG, the Zurich-based independent provider of industry-wide European catastrophe insurance data and loss indices, has announced a new initiative which will see PERILS team up with the European Space Agency (ESA) to make available satellite-based flood footprint imagery during and after major European flood events.

PERILS AG, the Zurich-based independent provider of industry-wide European catastrophe insurance data and loss indices, has issued an update on how their loss data and indices have been used by the reinsurance and catastrophe bond sector. When we last reported on PERILS they had just cleared $4 billion of limits placed using their data and […]

PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company providing industry-wide European catastrophe insurance data and loss indices,has published their latest newsletter today updating the market on the events of 2011 and the progress that PERILS have made. The last time we reported on PERILS progress they had just reached $3.18 billion of risk transfer capacity placed using […]

CatVest Petroleum Services LLC, who launched last year offering oil spill risk modelling  and transfer services (specifically the creation of parametric triggers to allow for oil spill ILS issuance), have today announced the launch of a new model which targets more comprehensive energy industry losses. The CatVest EnergyRisk model is a suite of tools which […]

Important news this morning from PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company providing industry-wide European catastrophe insurance data and loss indices for insurance-linked security and industry-loss warranty transactions, who have announced that they are expanding their services to include coverage for a new class of risk, UK flood. The addition of inland flooding for the UK […]

Yesterday we updated you on the PERILS AG industry loss index usage within the insurance-linked securities and ILW markets and our article shows how use of the index and underlying data has grown to include 40 insurance risk transfer transactions with $3.18 billion worth of capacity. PERILS AG published their latest newsletter yesterday and it […]

The last time we wrote about PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company providing industry-wide European catastrophe insurance data and loss indices, they had just reported that their industry loss index had been used for over $2.79 billion worth of risk transfer transactions (including ILW’s and catastrophe bonds). Now, just a month and a half later […]

PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company providing industry-wide European catastrophe insurance data and loss indices, continues to gain traction as the preferred source of European windstorm loss data and index tools. They announced today that their PERILS industry loss index has been involved in just over $2.79 billion worth of risk transfer transactions since the […]

PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company providing industry-wide European catastrophe insurance data, has announced that more than $1 billion worth of risk transactions have been placed using their industry loss index. A total of $1.05 billion of risk has now been placed, and with cat bonds still in the pipeline that could rise by year […]