risk modeling

Catastrophe risk modelling specialists RMS have announced the launch of a range of product updates to its Risk Intelligence platform, including a new version of its Risk Modeler tool, updated models, plus new high definition risk models covering the European severe convective storm peril across 17 countries in the region.

Catastrophe risk modelling specialist RMS has launched a high definition inland flood risk model for the United States, which it hopes will help insurance and reinsurance firms to establish and expand flood risk underwriting businesses.

Risk modelling firm AIR Worldwide has released version 2.0 of its Touchstone catastrophe modelling platform. The new version includes the ability to account for both catastrophe and non-catastrophe risks in a single platform, providing a single view of exposures.

William (Bill) Keogh, the ex-President of risk modelling firm EQECAT who went on to take a role at reinsurance broker, risk and capital management firm TigerRisk Partners, has moved again becoming CEO of risk analytics and software firm Ultimate Risk Solutions.

Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has announced the release of new views of risk for its U.S. and Canada Severe Convective Storm (SCS) and China Typhoon models as well as a launch date for its new exposure and risk-management platform, RMS (one).

Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a leading provide of catastrophe risk modelling and analysis products and services, has announced today that it has provided the risk analysis for $1.2 billion of catastrophe bond issuance in 2013 so far. This includes two recently closed transactions which both increased in size significantly and were well received by investors; […]

William (Bill) Keogh, who left his role as President of risk modelling firm EQECAT just last week, has emerged as a new hire at TigerRisk Partners, a reinsurance broking and risk and capital management firm founded by Jim Stanard and Rod Fox. Keogh resigned from EQECAT to pursue a new opportunity within the reinsurance industry […]

A new risk modeling tool which allows users to run scenarios and generate loss estimates against a range of specific historical or hypothetical catastrophe events has been launched today by Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center at reinsurance broker Aon Benfield. The tool will allow users to run scenarios to analyse the potential financial […]

Risk modeller AIR Worldwide have issued a press release discussing how a new client of theirs, ILS Capital Management Ltd. a company established with the help of reinsurance industry veteran Don Kramer, has signed up to use their risk models and portfolio management tools for a portfolio of insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds and reinsurance contracts. […]

Broker Guy Carpenter has published a report looking at effective uses of catastrophe models by property insurers, uncertainty in risk modelling and advocating a multi-model approach to catastrophe models. The report suggests that a multi-model approach is better for estimating risk and controlling uncertainty, particularly given the ever-present factor of uncertainty in risk modelling.