August 2018

An hours clause stipulates that the cedant is only protected against the financial loss accumulated within a set number of hours of a catastrophe. Calculating the expected loss on a treaty with an hours clause is an ongoing challenge facing reinsurers.

For the last two weeks or so southwestern India has seen unusually heavy precipitation and major flooding.

China is the number one exporter of goods to the United States and the newly imposed tariffs have the potential to perturb trade patterns and severely change the economic landscape.

Just last week the Harris County Flood Control District released the list of mitigation projects that would be funded by the county's USD 2.5 billion flood infrastructure bond proposal. Can mitigation measures on this scale be worthwhile investments?

In an ever-changing reinsurance industry ripe with an influx of alternative capital and new competition, reinsurers have had to identify new ways to boost the profitability of their portfolios.

Typically, about 10,000 wildfires occur annually in California, but the frequency of fire ignitions increases rather sharply during the dry and windy months of July and August.

In communities and countries around the world government officials and other decision-makers with limited resources are called upon to make investments in the safety and welfare of their constituents.

Six tons is twice as heavy as three tons, and 60 mph is twice as fast as 30 mph—so why do M6.0 earthquakes release so much more than twice the destructive energy of M3.0 temblors?