weather derivatives

Record rainfall in South Korea in recent days has caused significant damage and loss of life from flooding and landslides. As much as 16 inches of rain was recorded in a 24 hour period in the capital Seoul, an astounding amount of precipitation for a short time span. Despite the fact that South Korea is […]

We wrote last week that some weather traders are taking advantage of the recent heat wave across the U.S. to profit from making the right choices with their weather derivative contract purchases. The high temperatures caused some weather derivative contract prices to soar on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) allowing traders to cash in.

The U.S. has been suffering from unusually high temperatures, dry weather and heatwaves across many regions in recent days and weeks. High temperatures mean weather traders are busy as companies and traders seek to hedge their weather risks using instruments such as weather derivatives.

On a regular basis we see news articles discussing weather events which have caused losses to corporations which may have been better protected through weather risk management techniques rather than their standard business interruption insurance policies. The latest case to hit the news in recent days is the damaging hail storm which hit Denver airport […]

The second quarter of 2011 has been good for wind energy producers across the bulk of the U.S. after wind speeds have been reported to be generally elevated above normal across much of the country in a report from 3TIER®, a global leader in renewable energy risk analysis.

A research paper due to be published this month in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society suggests that routine variations in the weather, such as rainfall and cooler or hotter than average days, can result in an annual cost to the U.S. economy of $485 billion.

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, the largest general insurer in South Korea, has launched a new weather insurance product which is aimed at industries whose revenues are influenced by unpredictable and inclement weather.

We last wrote about the push to get weather derivatives listed as a tradable instrument on the commodity exchanges of India back in September last year when the Indian government approved laws to allow commodity options and futures to be traded in the country. It was hoped that the new law would lead to other […]

In our latest interview we spoke with Brian O’Hearne, President and CEO of eWeatherRisk a provider of online weather risk management solutions. Brian is a bit of a veteran in the weather risk management market having headed up weather business at Swiss Re and before that GuaranteedWeather.

At the recent Weather Risk Management Association’s (WRMA) 13th annual meeting held in Houston, Texas earlier this month participants on a panel about power and natural gas agreed that the energy markets continue to be the primary users of weather hedging and weather risk management tools.