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Human influence resulted in a three-fold increase in the risk of the recent Cape Town droughts. That was the stark message from Professor Mark New, AXA chair...
India is set to become the world’s second-largest economy by the year 2030 (Source: Standard Chartered – by nominal GDP). The country has a young population...
Risk managers are being urged to study the recent Cape Town drought, to learn about the water-related risks facing large cities globally. In a new case study...
Cape Town’s water crisis should be seen as a lesson in changing behaviours and good risk management, according to Helen Zille, Premier of the Western Cape province...
A new paper on index-based insurances has been published by the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS). The paper, Index-based Insurances Particularly...
Parametric or index-based insurance can play a significant role in closing the insurance protection gap – the gap between insured and uninsured losses – and fostering global resilience...
The managing director of Singapore’s financial regulator has called for greater use of parametric and index-based insurance to close the protection gap in natural catastrophe and disaster risk...
Unlike traditional indemnity insurance, parametric insurance does not cover ‘full loss’. Instead, it pays out benefits based...
As a region, Asia is particularly prone to natural disasters and extreme weather events such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, heatwaves...
