Guy Carpenter Announces New Global Capability to Help Clients Navigate Evolving InsurTech Market: Guy Carpenter announced the launch of GC Genesis, its expanded InsurTech advisory offering designed to meet clients’ desire to understand and leverage the dynamic universe of InsurTech.
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Mw 6.6 Earthquake – Iburi, Hokkaido: A magnitude (Mw) 6.6 earthquake struck the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan at 18:07 UTC on September 5 (03.07 JST on September 6), according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The epicenter was located at a depth of 33.4 km in the Iburi Subprefecture, about 20 km east of the coastal city of Tomakomai and 62 km southeast of Sapporo. No tsunami warning was issued. The event triggered significant landsliding causing damage to buildings and vehicles, as well as widespread power outages.
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Super Typhoon Jebi: In the West Pacific Basin, Typhoon Jebi made first landfall on Shikoku (Tokushima Prefecture) at around 03 UTC on 4 September, and then second landfall near Kobe (Hyōgo Prefecture) at around 05 UTC on the same day. The storm brought reports of damaging wind gusts in excess of 160 km/hr (100 mph), flooding due to storm surge and heavy rainfall and mudslides. Widespread damage and power outages have been reported by media across southern Japan.
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Data and Analytics Support Innovations in Flood Risk Management – GC@MC Commentary: Flood risk and its impact on communities are global concerns. Advances in data quality coupled with expanding model development and computational power leads to increasingly accurate risk evaluation for (re)insurer portfolio analyses and underwriter risk analyses – with a concomitant increase in policyholder risk awareness.
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A Strategy for Market Volatility: Portfolio Optimization – GC@MC Commentary: Today, (re)insurers are challenged by a host of factors pressuring companies’ earnings and capital – excess capacity is impacting underwriting profitability as claim frequency and severity are rising – contributing to a movement toward balance sheet volatility that impacts earnings and growth, according to a global roundtable of Guy Carpenter leaders.
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Maintaining Momentum – GC@MC Commentary: In May, SCOR became the first reinsurer to use the new UK ILS regime to issue a cat bond. GC Securities,* as sole structurer and bookrunner, was the first broker-dealer to navigate the requirements of the legislation. Des Potter, Managing Director, GC Securities and a leading figure in the work to establish the regime, discusses the potential for ILS growth, and how London can build on its early success and become an innovation hub.
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Week’s Top Stories: September 8 – 14, 2018
