Catastrophe risk and insurance-linked securities

• Wildfire catastrophe models could spark the changes California needs

  By Eric J. Xu, Cody Webb, David D. Evans | 28 October 2019

  Wildfire risk has become a key focus of California property insurers.

• Climate gentrification and the role of flood insurance

  By Molly Barth, John W. Rollins | 16 September 2019

  The visibility of climate’s impact on property hazard is increasingly leading individuals and their chosen leaders to ask: how might an increase in hazard affect the desirability of living in various communities, and how do we manage the socioeconomic impacts?

• Long-Term Care Insurance Fraud, Waste and Abuse Risk Management

  By Robert Eaton | 30 July 2019

  This survey is intended to share insurance company risk management practices and perspectives so that stakeholders may have a common understanding when discussing waste, fraud, and abuse in long-term care insurance.

• ILS Will Continue To Play an Increasing Role for Captives

  By Aaron C. Koch | 25 July 2019

  An interview with Aaron Koch about the current state of affairs in the insurance-linked securities market and how captives are using this segment.

• How does volcano risk differ from other natural disasters?

  By John W. Rollins, Cody Webb | 14 August 2018

  What are some of the differences in insurance among volcanoes and other catastrophic events, such as hurricanes and floods?

• Casualty: The next ILS frontier?

  By Aaron C. Koch | 11 July 2018

  Important progress has been made in establishing a precedent for casualty insurance-linked securities transactions in the last several years, but there is still significant work to do.

• Non-NatCat insurance-linked securities: Identifying market opportunities for diversifying perils

  By Aaron C. Koch | 28 November 2017

  This paper, the first in a three-part series, provides an overview of non-NatCat insurance-linked securities.

• Surveying the damage: The impact of Harvey, Irma, and Maria on the alternative capital market

  By Aaron C. Koch | 31 October 2017

  In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, the property and casualty insurance and reinsurance markets are positioned to step in and provide perhaps the largest series of storm-related payouts in history.

• How alternative capital is shaping the global reinsurance industry

  By Karl Goring | 31 August 2017

  The infusion of alternative capital into catastrophe reinsurance has reshaped the market and continues to ripple through the industry as it expands to include new structures and cover new perils.

• Reviewing Hurricane Matthew: Wide-reaching economic impacts, but unlikely to shake the reinsurance and ILS markets

  By Aaron C. Koch | 11 October 2016

  It is worth considering what impacts Hurricane Matthew may have on the insurance-linked securities market and on alternative capital investors more generally.

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