Fighting Emerging Pandemics With Catastrophe Bonds
By Dr. Gordon Woo, catastrophe risk expert When a fire breaks out in a city, there needs to be a prompt firefighting response to contain the fire and prevent it from spreading. The outbreak of a major...
View ArticleRising Storm Surge Losses in the U.S. Northeast
Co-authored by Anaïs Katz and Oliver Withers, analysts, Capital Market Solutions, RMS A recent article in Nature Communications, picked up by the BBC, identified a record mean sea-level rise of 5”...
View ArticleCat Bond Pricing: Calculating the True Rewards
Commentary in the specialist insurance press has generally deemed pricing of catastrophe bonds in 2015 to have bottomed out. While true in average terms, baseline pricing figures mask risk-return...
View ArticleThe ILS Community Is Calling Out for Greater Pricing Transparency
I often hear reinsurance underwriters comment on how difficult it is to capture and represent all of the risks underlying a single transaction. Their data comes in many different formats, sometimes...
View ArticleYour essential ILS overview at Exceedance
The Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) market is always fast-moving, changing, and evolving. Even in the last twelve months we have seen events such as the emergence of new market players and the...
View ArticleInsurance-Linked Securities in Asia – Looking Out for the Tipping Point
We were at a conference in Singapore, pushing to develop a market that doesn’t yet really exist. Grounds, you might think, for frustration. And yet my RMS capital markets colleague, Jin Shah, and I...
View ArticleUpdates from RMS on Major Hurricane Matthew
Monday, October 10 Matthew has now made its exit and work begins on the RMS loss estimate By Tom Sabbatelli, RMS hurricane risk expert Although it may be too soon to define Hurricane Matthew’s legacy,...
View ArticleEXPOSURE Magazine Snapshots: Water Security – Managing the Next Financial Shock
This is a taster of an article published by RMS in the second edition of EXPOSURE magazine. Click here and download your full copy now. EXPOSURE magazine reported on how a pilot project to stress...
View ArticleThe Hurricane Hunter and the Cat Bond
The second Mexico multi-cat securitization was launched at the end of 2012 to provide reinsurance for the Fund for Natural Disasters (FONDEN) – established by the Mexican federal government as a...
View ArticleFighting Emerging Pandemics With Catastrophe Bonds
By Dr. Gordon Woo, catastrophe risk expert When a fire breaks out in a city, there needs to be a prompt firefighting response to contain the fire and prevent it from spreading. The outbreak of a major...
View ArticleRising Storm Surge Losses in the U.S. Northeast
Co-authored by Anaïs Katz and Oliver Withers, analysts, Capital Market Solutions, RMS A recent article in Nature Communications, picked up by the BBC, identified a record mean sea-level rise of 5”...
View ArticleCat Bond Pricing: Calculating the True Rewards
Commentary in the specialist insurance press has generally deemed pricing of catastrophe bonds in 2015 to have bottomed out. While true in average terms, baseline pricing figures mask risk-return...
View ArticleThe ILS Community Is Calling Out for Greater Pricing Transparency
I often hear reinsurance underwriters comment on how difficult it is to capture and represent all of the risks underlying a single transaction. Their data comes in many different formats, sometimes...
View ArticleYour Essential ILS Overview at Exceedance
The Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) market is always fast-moving, changing, and evolving. Even in the last twelve months we have seen events such as the emergence of new market players and the...
View ArticleInsurance-Linked Securities in Asia – Looking Out for the Tipping Point
We were at a conference in Singapore, pushing to develop a market that doesn’t yet really exist. Grounds, you might think, for frustration. And yet my RMS capital markets colleague, Jin Shah, and I...
View ArticleUpdates from RMS on Major Hurricane Matthew
Monday, October 10 Matthew has now made its exit and work begins on the RMS loss estimate By Tom Sabbatelli, RMS hurricane risk expert Although it may be too soon to define Hurricane Matthew’s legacy,...
View ArticleEXPOSURE Magazine Snapshots: Water Security – Managing the Next Financial Shock
This is a taster of an article published by RMS in the second edition of EXPOSURE magazine. Click here and download your full copy now. EXPOSURE magazine reported on how a pilot project to stress...
View ArticleThe Hurricane Hunter and the Cat Bond
The second Mexico multi-cat securitization was launched at the end of 2012 to provide reinsurance for the Fund for Natural Disasters (FONDEN) – established by the Mexican federal government as a...
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