Archive

  • Aon updates storm surge model

    28 October 2013

    Data from superstorm Sandy has been added

  • St Jude storm hits largest exposure on UK insurers' books

    28 October 2013

    But impact "not as bad" as 1987 or 1990 storms, says PwC

  • Low-cost modelling platform claims "ground breaking" computation speeds

    24 October 2013

    Marriott Sinclair's Tyche takes advantage of parallel processing

  • Conning updates risk management software

    18 October 2013

    Version 6.1 has enhancements for Asian users

  • The technologies reshaping insurance

    18 October 2013

    The insurance industry doesn't often evoke science fiction. But recent technological advances have been so drastic they could have leapt from the pages of Isaac Asimov. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Aon develops Colorado flood model

    17 October 2013

    Scenario model quantifies potential for flood losses in the US state

  • Hannover Re incurs €64m loss from hailstorm Andreas

    17 October 2013

    Industry losses estimated at €2.5bn

  • Montpelier Re to research alternatives to traditional cat models

    14 October 2013

    Bermudian reinsurer sets up risk institute with Canadian and European academics

  • Understand, don't blend, cat models

    11 October 2013

    The changes afoot in insurance markets make an "own view of risk" essential to the future of today's firms – and the best approach is not through blending of catastrophe models, argues Mike Duffy

  • Investors welcome Swiss Re's solvency/hurricane contingent debt

    09 October 2013

    Reinsurer may repeat issuance for other perils