All Cat Modelling articles – Page 10
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EQECAT: Dean losses around $2bn
EQECAT also estimates that overall losses in Mexico will be less than $250m
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$2bn losses expected as Dean batters Jamaica
Cat 5 Hurricane Dean is expected to intensify as it heads towards Cayman
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AnalysisMexico braces for cat 4 Dean
Dean is expected to make landfall in Mexico in four days time as a category 4 storm
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Flossie weakens as it nears Hawaii
Hurricane Flossie weakens into a category 2 hurricane with AIR forecasting no “significant insured losses”
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Online onlyHawaii braces for cat 4 Flossie
Hurricane Flossie is bearing down on Hawaii with maximum sustained winds of 140mph
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Credit Suisse firm licenses AIR model
Financial institution will use model to manage cat bond risk
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Karen Clark unveils new company
Karen Clark & Company to offer modelling consultancy services
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Online onlyTSR lowers its hurricane outlook again
Tropical Storm Risk has lowered its hurricane forecast to 35% above normal
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Online onlyTRIA renewal leaves insurers exposed
The renewed TRIA could expose insurers to “colossal” NBCR losses
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Online onlyTyphoon Usagi makes landfall
Losses are not expected to exceed $500m as the storm weakens to a category 2
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Guy Carp to release UK flood model
Model will focus on exposures in London and provide flood extents for sea surges and 1-in-250 year events
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Features
Predicting the weather
Today’s catastrophe models are more scientifically robust than ever before. Dr Jayanta Guin takes a looks at how our understanding of the forces driving natural catastrophes becomes ever more sophisticated.
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Cover StoryCorrelations of risk
Large catastrophes often reveal unexpected correlations and loss amplifications. Nick Thorpe examines whether these correlations of risk could catch out insurers, reinsurers and their investors
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Industry Matters
Integrating catastrophes
JB Crozet looks at the value for reinsurers of including catastrophe models in their business plans
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FeaturesGR Survey: Catastrophe models
Users think catastrophe models are good value for money and increasingly important to their business. The challenge, it seems, is to feed them better data – and to use their output more effectively. Peter Joy reports
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Willis Re teams up with EQECAT
EQECAT's model will help reinsurer to quantify offshore energy risks in the Gulf of Mexico
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AIR presents near-term hurricane methodology
Also reveals preliminary findings from hybrid physical-statistical storm track model
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TSR lowers hurricane activity forecast
Tropical Storm Risk continues to predict an active Atlantic storm season despite lowering its activity forecast
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Online onlyLondon terror plot “slipped through the net”
RMS says a thwarted car bomb attack “slipped through the intelligence net”
