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Friederike/David: The Day Our Luck Ran Out?
Little more than a week ago, I signed off my previous blog post, discussing storm Eleanor/Burglind, with the following thought: As the number…
Purpose before Profit: The Rise of Impact Investing
I had the privilege of following Ben Brookes onto the Exceedance main stage in 2015. I can’t remember a word of my talk, but something Ben…
Southern California: Thomas Fire Loss Estimate a...
Thomas Fire Loss Estimate RMS has produced estimates for the insured loss arising from the Thomas Fire that affected the Southern California…
Eleanor/Burglind: Another “Near-miss” for Europe?
Over the course of this winter, RMS has been publishing a series of blog posts charting the progress of the 2017/18 European windstorm season…
The “Glasgow Hurricane”: A Fifty-year Retrospective
In the early hours of Monday, January 15, 1968, cyclone “Low Q” charged across northern U.K. and smashed the densely populated Central Belt of…
The Mysterious Mitigation Multiple
You will certainly have heard this statement: “Investing in mitigation action to reduce disaster consequences shows benefits relative to…