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Catastrophe models have become the starting point, not the answer

Insurers are increasingly combining catastrophe models with proprietary research and underwriting judgement to build their own view of risk

Inside the AI modeling race reshaping catastrophe risk

The actuarial methodology powering insurance risk models is advancing faster than most carriers realize. Here is what is changing

Inside the AI modeling race reshaping catastrophe risk

The actuarial methodology powering insurance risk models is advancing faster than most carriers realize. Here is what is changing

Hedge Funds Are Expanding Desks Designed to Profit From Natural-Catastrophe Risk

When Mitesh Parikh, a headhunter at UK recruiter Selby Jennings, started looking for an ILS modeler for a large US hedge fund this year, the pool of qualified candidates was discon...

Complex Cats, Talent Exodus Will Confound Insurance Models This Year: Sedgwick

The 2026 catastrophe season will face a more distributed and harder-to-predict risk landscape than carriers have historically planned for, according to a new report by global claim...

Wall Street Is Gaining Access to New Catastrophe Models to Help Predict Wars

As Wall Street races to incorporate war into its risk scenarios, the same people modeling natural catastrophes are now adapting their methodology to help investors, banks and insur...

How risk modelers like Fathom and Verisk are using AI and diffusion models to bypass the limits of physics-based "cat" m...

Financial Times: How risk modelers like Fathom and Verisk are using AI and diffusion models to bypass the limits of physics-based “cat” models to predict natural disasters  —  Cata...

Risk models are struggling to keep pace with cascading global threats

Climate shocks, geopolitical disruption and supply chain dependencies are exposing gaps in how organisations assess extreme risk

Wall Street is gaining access to new catastrophe models to help predict wars

The same people modeling natural disasters are now adapting their methodology to help investors, banks and insurers predict military conflicts.

Delos data chief on cracking wildfire risk models others missed

Andrew Notohamiprodjo explains how science-based modeling caught fires that history-based tools overlooked

Economic losses from Venezuelan earthquakes projected to exceed US$10 billion – Verisk

Verisk's Catastrophe and Risk Solutions group flags unusual uncertainty in translating economic losses into insured claims

Economic losses from Venezuelan earthquakes projected to exceed $10 billion – Verisk

Verisk's Catastrophe and Risk Solutions group flags unusual uncertainty in translating economic losses into insured claims

Could earthquake losses be far higher than expected?

A new study points to a seismic factor absent from many models

Static risk models failing as geopolitical threats grow more complex

Lockton research finds conflict-related property losses over the last five years have already surpassed the entire previous decade

Static risk models failing as geopolitical threats grow more complex

Lockton research finds conflict-related property losses over the last five years have already surpassed the entire previous decade

Wall Street is gaining access to new catastrophe models to help predict wars

Wars are upending the finance industry’s ability to predict everything from the price of oil to the cost of a mortgage

Catastrophe Bonds: An Uncorrelated Asset Class Amid Global Macroeconomic Uncertainty

20 Years After Hurricane Katrina: Are Insurers Ready for a Different $100B Disaster?

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana, as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph. It had previously reached Category 5 i...

Traditional Home Insurance Is Collapsing. Here’s What Could Fill the Gap

A new, AI-assisted model of insurance is quietly exploding in disaster-prone areas—and may be coming for FEMA too. Is it the answer to climate change, or a trap?

Why some insurers are using imprecise methods for risk analysis - and who gets hurt

Major US insurers are pricing wildfire risk dramatically differently. Some are too cheap

Hail, floods, and thunderstorms leave a trail of losses across three continents

Aon's latest catastrophe data captures what is becoming an all-too-familiar story for property insurers

Uninsured flood losses could top $1 trillion in worst-case scenarios, Moody's warns

The outlook is stark: $1 trillion in potential uninsured losses in severe scenarios, rising 25% by 2050 if nothing changes.

Western wildfires expose coverage gaps as carrier moratoriums spread

Snowpack and extreme wind events drove a multistate outbreak that risk modelers say had a predictable footprint

Nat cat cover to stay profitable if industry keeps innovating – Fitch

A new Fitch report finds the global nat cat protection gap has passed 60%, with emerging markets most exposed