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What Should We Make of the U.S. Severe Convectiv...
After a blistering start to the 2017 U.S. severe weather season in which tornado, hail, and wind reports were at near or record levels of…
CCRA: 500 and Counting…
In terms of news events, October 28, 2005 maybe wasn’t that eventful. It was National Chocolate Day in the U.S. – an obvious cause for…
The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO): Discove...
What is the El Niño Southern Oscillation? More conveniently known as ENSO, it is the planet’s largest source of natural climate variability on…
The Hurricane Hunter and the Cat Bond
The second Mexico multi-cat securitization was launched at the end of 2012 to provide reinsurance for the Fund for Natural Disasters (FONDEN…
Severe Convective Storm Season Starts in Europe
The European severe convective storm (SCS) season has kicked off. The heatwave that scorched the continent for the best part of a week set the…
Is Property Cat “The Next Asbestos?”
For Texas, it all began with Hurricane Ike in 2008. In the run-up and during the global financial crisis, between September 2006 and the last…