All Catastrophe articles – Page 10
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GR Focus
Modelling for investors
As the market for insurance-linked securities takes off, catastrophe modelling agencies are striving to make their products simpler for investors to understand and easier for issuers to apply. David Banks reports.
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Features
Insuring the uninsurable
Reinsurers face a future of ever-increasing catastrophe losses. The World Bank’s Eugene Gurenko discusses the industry’s role in an age of climate change.
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Modelling future climate
The fourth assessment report from the UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) goes some way to predicting the impact of climate change on weather patterns.
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Cover Story
Paying for catastrophes
Catastrophe losses are getting more and more expensive. Population growth and increasing wealth compound exposures while a changing climate causes more frequent and severe events. Ronald Gift Mullins asks, “Who should pick up the tab?”
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Industry Matters
Commodity inflation heightens catastrophe risk
Chris O’Kane looks at why the industry urgently needs to wake up to the real possibility of “commodity surge”.
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Insurer reports impact of 2Q storms
15 severe weather events in the U.S. caused up to $18m losses to Argo
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Online onlyFlorida insurance commissioner meets Lloyd’s chairman
Kevin McCarty joins state governor Charlie Crist as part of London trade mission
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Bertha heads away from Bermuda
Island suffers 63mph winds, but damage "should be minimal" - AIR
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RMS: Elida is second East Pacific hurricane of 2008
Hurricane Elida, near Mexico, is expected to move north-west away from land
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Bertha revives
First hurricane of the season re-intensifies. "Could reach category 3" - RMS
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New futures contracts as wind season starts
CCFE to List IFEX Florida and US Gulf Coast Tropical Wind Event Linked Futures
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UPDATE: Bertha regains strength
Back to a ‘weak’ Category 2 hurricane with 105mph winds - Eqecat
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FOR YOUR DIARY: Storm Force, 17 July
Seminar on windstorm risk to be held in London next week
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Global nat cat losses total $13bn in 2008
Munich Re summarises "substantial and above average" impact of the first six months of the year
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Bertha ‘not untypical’ – Munich Re
Company’s head of geo risk research describes 2008 catastrophes to date
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UPDATE: Bertha downgraded to Category 2 storm
Unlikely to affect US, may still pose a threat to Bermuda
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Online onlyCalifornia wildfires destroy 600,000 acres
AIR: conditions are worse this year because state experienced its driest spring since 1894
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FOR YOUR DIARY: Northeast Hurricane Mitigation Leadership Forum
Experts meet to discuss threats associated with a major New England Hurricane, July 10
