risk transfer

The weather futures trading market is looking incredibly healthy today after the news that Tradition has placed the largest ever volume for a specific weather futures contract at the CME. The deal entailed a Dutch auction style placement to protect their client from weather risks in the London, UK area. The extra capacity this massive […]

The topics covered by us here at Artemis are mostly devoted to natural catastrophes and the methods utilised for hedging against them to protect the balance-sheet of re/insurers and cedents. Guy Carpenter have published a report looking at the volume of man-made losses and types of events which caused them during 2008. The annual average […]

The wildfires affecting Victoria, Australia are causing widespread destruction and loss of life. The fires, caused by a combination of above average temperatures and tinder dry bush and forest, have destroyed in excess of 750 homes and caused over 130 deaths so far. Google have created a map showing the extent of the fires. It […]

This press release hits the nail on the head when it comes to justifying reasons for public-private risk transfer partnerships. The UN Environment Programme and insurers have come together to study the potential of risk transfer to provide financing for carbon neutral projects and programmes to combat climate change. Not only is this potentially the […]

I posted a couple of days ago about the recent California wildfires and put forward some useful online data sources on fire potential and risk. On the same topic it’s pertinent to note the amount of exposure the recent fires caused. First American have said that the total residential property exposure from the recent fires […]

A blog should be a two-way conversation between the author and the visitors. Blog posts should inform but also stimulate opinion and comments. To reply to any of the posts on this blog just click to add a comment at the foot of the post you are interested in. To that end I’d like to […]