Risk Market News

Smaller, But More Black Swans

DeFi insurance coming, pushing a pandemic bond and Aeolus' politics (not performance) pays off

Oct 18, 2020

Pioneering Cat Bond Program On The Chopping Block

Florida's Citizens puts its model contract out for bid

Oct 16, 2020

PG&E's New Burn Notice

State regulators eye expanding vendor cat models and internal models

Oct 13, 2020

Catastrophe Insurers Go to Washington

Insurers want a role in responding to the pandemic (as long as it doesn't involve their capital)

Oct 12, 2020

September 2020

China Re Exec Says Foreign Cat Models Falling Short

With its commercial earthquake model launched, the reinsurer has set its sights on a typhoon and climate models.

Sep 28, 2020

Wealthy Benefit Most From Hurricanes

Flood defenses can't save Louisiana.

Sep 27, 2020

FCC Explores Satellite Insurance

New regulatory proposals set the stage for satellite debris insurance and modeling.

Sep 27, 2020

Finance Continues to Lag in Climate Modeling

A call for Wall Street to incorporate third-party catastrophe models

Sep 27, 2020

August 2020

IPO Hinges On Insurance, Model Markets

COVID-19 models need to look ahead

Aug 26, 2020

July 2020

US Leads the World In Storm Losses

Hawaii's not so great timing, embrace COVID-19 model uncertainty

Jul 26, 2020

Critical "Fault" In Quake Models

New research suggests that risk may be underpriced.

Jul 20, 2020

COVID-19 Modeling Needs to Look Like the Local Weather Forecast

A new model for following pandemics locally

Jul 5, 2020