All Strategic Risk Global articles in September 2006 Catastrophe Risk
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Features
Research on landfalling hurricane winds
Catastrophe modeller AIR Worldwide Corporation (AIR) is to sponsor research by Texas Tech University on the detailed structure of hurricane winds over land.
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Catastrophe Risk
Hurricane tracking and flood mapping tools
British company Ambiental Technical Solutions has launched a free online Hurricane Tracker.
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Features
Modelling Offshore Energy Risk
Two years of devastating hurricanes pose the question - can offshore energy risk be modelled?
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Reviewing Model Changes
Commercial catastrophe model vendors have made key changes this year to their US hurricane and European windstorm models. Especially for US hurricane, the effect on modelled loss is material.
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Financial Management of Large Scale Catastrophes
The OECD has launched an international network that will gather high level public officials, representatives of the private sector and academic experts with a view to exchanging information and provid
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Managing Uncertainty in Cat Models
Difficult questions raised by the 2005 hurricane season on the merits of the various types of analyses that underpinned trading decisions continue to worry senior management.
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Call for more spend on flood defences
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has warned that government spending on flood defences in the United Kingdom needs to increase by 10% a year to £750 million by 2011 to deal with the growth in
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Cat bonds at record levels
Catastrophe risk securitisations reached record levels during the first eight months of 2006, and more are expected before the end of the year.
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North east hurricane could cost $65 billion
A north east hurricane hitting New York State could result in insured losses of $65 billion, Lloyd's America President Wendy Baker has warned.
