September 2014

They say you can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've come from. So as things are changing in the cat modeling world with new platforms that are faster, have more features, and are more intuitive than their predecessors, let's look back at how it all started.

On one of my recent flights, we came across some turbulence and were confined to our seats. That prompted me to get writing.

Fire management professionals in California and other western states are sounding the alarm that this wildfire season has the potential to be among the worst in recent years.

This week we had an interesting Black Swan event here in Singapore—cocktails at the iconic Black Swan restaurant and bar to welcome attendees from all over Asia to AIR's Certified Catastrophe Modeler Programme!

September is National Preparedness Month in the U.S., and families, communities and workplaces are encouraged to "Be Disaster Aware, Take Action to Prepare" to improve their resilience.

Earlier this year I blogged about how a jackrabbit start for the Northwest Pacific typhoon season doesn't necessarily signal a banner year for typhoon counts there. I hate to say I told you so...but at this point the typhoon season is definitely way below a banner year.

Insuring high risk properties is a thorny issue in many regions and different countries have their own ways of dealing with it.

Every year a variety of private and public organizations issue forecasts of activity for the North Atlantic hurricane season, which spans June 1 to November 30.