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Catastrophe modelling is a critical piece of the insurance and reinsurance market chain and product offering. Using catastrophe risk models, insurers and reinsurers analyse risks to inform their pricing and risk appetites.
Read our catastrophe modelling insurance or reinsurance related news and analysis below.
2017’s disaster events show shifting risk landscape, says Chubb’s Greenberg
19th April 2018
Evan Greenberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Chubb, has asserted that the risk landscape is becoming more complex, and that re/insurers must respond to 2017’s costly natural catastrophe events by adjusting their risk-models and doing more to support government programmes. In the Chairman’s letter to shareholders, Greenberg claimed that ... Read the full article
PERILS’ updated IEDs show European windstorm as the biggest exposure
13th April 2018
Catastrophe data loss aggregation and estimation firm, PERILS AG, has released the 2018 update of the PERILS Industry Exposure Database (IED), which shows that the biggest exposure in the industry database is European windstorm. PERILS explains that the updated country IEDs for 2018 have once again been produced from scratch, and ... Read the full article
AIR Worldwide partners with RenRe to model long-tail casualty risk
9th April 2018
AIR Worldwide, the catastrophe modelling arm of Verisk Analytics, has announced that it will partner with RenaissanceRe (RenRe) to develop the re/insurance industry’s first probabilistic model for extreme liability events. As part of the collaboration, AIR Worldwide plans to use Arium, its exposure management application, to measure portfolio-specific loss potential and judge ... Read the full article
Typically, re/insurers choose to ‘bend or blend’ their risk modelling needs: GC’s Imelda Powers
23rd March 2018
Insurance and reinsurance industry catastrophe risk models constantly evolve and advance, but when adjustments are required, typically, companies must decide whether to “bend or blend,” according to reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter’s Global Chief Catastrophe Modeler, Imelda Powers. Speaking with Reinsurance News, Powers explained that many insurers and reinsurers utilise a mix ... Read the full article
Re/insurers with own view of risk less impacted by model changes: GC’s Imelda Powers
16th March 2018
Speaking with Reinsurance News, Imelda Powers, Global Chief Catastrophe Modeler at reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, discussed the management of changes to models and the impact this can have on insurers and reinsurers, while underlining the importance of utilising the latest data and expertise within models to improve the industry's view ... Read the full article
Swiss Re’s CatNet hazard data integrated into SpatialKey
14th February 2018
Catastrophe peril hazard data from leading reinsurance firm Swiss Re is to be made available to a wider range of re/insurers through a partnership with geospatial insurance data and analytics specialist SpatialKey. The partnership means that Swiss Re's catastrophe peril insights will be made available through SpatialKey’s proprietary underwriting solution, with ... Read the full article
Global insured losses from natural disasters hit $134bn in 2017: Aon Benfield
24th January 2018
Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe risk modelling unit of reinsurance broker Aon Benfield, has said that total natural disaster losses in 2017 reached $353 billion, while insured losses reached $134 billion. Of the $353 billion, a huge 97%, or $344 billion was due to weather-related events, which includes the impacts of hurricanes ... Read the full article
Aon’s Impact Forecasting cat model joins ModEx platform
1st December 2017
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe risk model development centre, has become the fourth model vendor to offer its cat risk model solutions on the integrated ModEx platform. Impact has announced a deal on model provision with Simplitium enabling it to add its models to the ecosystem of cat risk modelling services ... Read the full article
Rates need to reflect changing risk perception, suggests industry execs
3rd November 2017
The pricing of catastrophe risks in the insurance and reinsurance sector needs to reflect the increased severity and frequency of events, and the extremely costly third-quarter could lead to a change in risk perception, according to industry executives. Historically, the occurrence of significant price increases across the reinsurance market happens at ... Read the full article
RMS hires ex-Munich Re board member Ludger Arnoldussen
23rd October 2017
Catastrophe risk modelling and analytics firm RMS has announced the hiring of Dr. Ludger Arnoldussen, previously a board member at reinsurance firm Munich Re, in a move designed to strengthen the firms position in Europe. Dr. Arnoldussen has a long history in business development across both insurance and reinsurance sectors, most ... Read the full article
KCC’s new RiskInsight-lite facilitates tracking of hurricane losses in real-time
5th September 2017
Global catastrophe risk modeller, Karen Clark & Company (KCC), has announced the launch of a new modelling platform that gives insurers and reinsurers the ability to track claims and losses in real-time from live hurricanes, called RiskInsight-lite. The new modelling platform also enables insurance and reinsurance companies to estimate their exceedence ... Read the full article
CatIQ adds Canadian flood event footprints from Aon to platform
10th August 2017
Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. (CatIQ) has entered into an arrangement with insurance and reinsurance broker Aon's Impact Forecasting division to add flood footprints for recent Canada flooding events to its platform. Impact Forecasting’s Cat Event Response flood footprints for Canada will be made available as a layer on CatIQ’s CatHUB ... Read the full article
Patria Re licenses full range of RMS models for LatAm and the Caribbean
28th April 2017
Global catastrophe risk analytics and modelling firm, RMS, has revealed that Latin American reinsurance entity, Reaseguradora Patria (Patria Re), has licensed the full range of RMS catastrophe models and analytics services for Latin America (LatAm) and the Caribbean. Parts of LatAm are extremely exposed to a variety of natural catastrophe events ... Read the full article
AIR Worldwide launches new cyber risk application for re/insurance markets
24th April 2017
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide today released ARC (Analytics of Risk from Cyber), a cyber risk modeling application that can evaluate any commercial policy, and measure aggregations of cyber risk within a company's portfolio, allowing for easy assessment of key firms' cyber risk from across the globe. The application uses ... Read the full article
Swiss Re’s pioneering volcano model highlights multi-billion dollar exposure
23rd March 2017
A new, world first international volcano risk model has been launched by reinsurance giant Swiss Re, and reveals that some of the planet's largest cities have an economic exposure of up to $30 billion, underlining the need for effective insurance solutions. More than 1 billion people around the world live within ... Read the full article
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