Archive

• AI unlikely to replace physical-based flood models, says Fathom co-founder

  17 December 2024

  Nevertheless, Fathom contributes to AI tool for visualising future flood events

• Swiss Re acquires flood risk modelling firm Fathom

  14 December 2023

  Reinsurer says deal will help address growing flood risks

• Herd mentality is stopping industry progressing, warn insurers

  09 March 2023

  Insurers need to "get hands dirty" on cyber and other new, more complex risks

• Reask and Fathom offer combined wind and flood risk models

  23 August 2022

  Firms say partnership is driven by demand for better risk data and models

• Conduit Re: starting up in shutdown

  01 April 2021

  Bermuda's fledgling reinsurer, Conduit Re, raised a staggering $1bn in the midst of the pandemic and has readied itself to enter the market this year. Sarfraz Thind speaks to CRO Andrew Smith about how a slick little insurer got off the ground

• Three emerging risks for the 2020s

  16 January 2020

  Andrew Smith, chief risk officer at Qatar Re, discusses three less-discussed risks for insurers that are set to emerge over the next decade

• Fathom updates US flood model

  05 June 2019

  Model is available via the ModEx cat modelling platform

• Andrew Smith questions longevity hedge in equity-release mortgages

  28 March 2019

  Paper on ERMs to be presented to Society of Actuaries in Ireland today

• Scientists hit out at US flood risk model attempts

  26 March 2018

  Academics call for research into links to global warming

• Where next for economic scenario generators?

  14 September 2017

  Insurers have for decades relied on economic scenario generators (ESGs) in their risk modelling, asset management and business steering. Christopher Cundy investigates what the next big developments might be in this important piece of modelling software