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There is an interesting article in Sundays Jamaica Gleaner which I though may interest the audience of Artemis. The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility is a risk pool covering the Caribbean islands, it launched last year to support Caribbean governments in the event of catastrophic hurricanes and earthquakes by providing financial liquidity when a parametric […]
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The IMF (International Monetary Fund) has released the bulk of it’s April 2008 World Economic Outlook today. Of particular interest is chapter 4 (PDF, requires Acrobat Reader) which contains data and commentary on the cat bond and weather derivatives markets. Four charts of particular interest are below: Read the full report here.
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TFS Energy today announced its US and Australia-based weather derivatives division completed the first-ever auction in Asia on behalf of a client who was looking to diversify its weather exposure and to help build liquidity in Japan. Offers were solicited for cumulative average temperature futures and calls in Japan for the May – September 2008 […]
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India’s National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange is planning on listing the countries first commodities index. Starting with with it’s most active commodities the plan is to follow up by launching a weather index in the near future. The planned rainfall index will use data from 350 weather stations around India to help companies and farmers […]
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