Guy Carpenter announced the launch of a suite of climate advisory and modeling services, as companies look to develop and integrate robust climate change strategies into their overarching Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) programs. ... Continue Reading »
Tropical Storm Elsa Expected To Strengthen to a Hurricane at Landfall along Florida Gulf Coast
Live Event: Tropical Storm Elsa Expected To Strengthen to a Hurricane at Landfall along Florida Gulf Coast Key Headlines Hurricane Warning Issued for a portion of the Florida Gulf Coast: The National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued a special advisory at 2 pm EDT for TS Elsa, indicating the expectation of strengthening to a Category-1 hurricane prior to a landfall ... Continue Reading »
Going Beyond Investments — The Role of Commercial Underwriting in the Climate Transition
The financial services industry is an accelerator in the transition to net-zero targets, for example, with the focus on the investment portfolios of institutional investors and bank lending. Progress includes the 95 percent European bank lending having a net-zero ambition aligned with the Paris Agreement. Some 70 percent of European traded equity is managed by asset managers ... Continue Reading »
Elsa Strengthens Into a Hurricane
Live Event: Elsa Strengthens Into a Hurricane Key Headlines Elsa becomes the first hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season: The National Hurricane Center (NHC) upgraded Elsa at 8:30 AM EDT to hurricane status based on surface observations from Barbados. Elsa is a Category 1 hurricane and is forecast to maintain this strength over the next 48 hours. ... Continue Reading »
Week’s Top Stories: June 26 – July 2, 2021
2021 Tropical Season Forecasts: Active Atlantic anticipated: Across all forecast entities spanning academia, government and private sector, there is unanimous consent the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season will feature average to above average named storms, hurricanes, major hurricanes and storm days. Factors driving active Atlantic forecast include above-average ... Continue Reading »
Exceptional Drought Conditions Enhance Wildfire Risk for Western US and Canada
Key Headlines Current Fire Activity Increasing: Fire activity increased significantly across the West during June. Most of the fire activity was in the Southwest, Colorado, Utah, and Montana through mid-June, coincident with the area of most extreme drought. New and large fires were reported in California and Oregon as record heat set in in the Pacific NW. The ... Continue Reading »
Tropical Storm Elsa Forms East of the Windward Islands
Live Event: Tropical Storm Elsa Forms East of Windward Islands Key Headlines: Elsa is the earliest fifth named storm in Atlantic history: Elsa breaks the earliest record for the "E" storm, set last year when Edouard formed on July 6th. Prior to last season, Emily held the record from 2005, forming on July 12. Current official forecast calls for tropical storm ... Continue Reading »
Guy Carpenter Announces Senior Non-Marine Specialty Appointments
Guy Carpenter announced the appointments of James Johns as Managing Director, effective August 12, 2021, and Joshua O’Donoghue as Senior Vice President, effective November 8, 2021, within its Non-Marine Specialty division. ... Continue Reading »
The Five Pillars of People Risk
New research shows the greatest likelihood and impact of 25 workforce-related threats facing employers worldwide according to risk managers and human resource (HR) professionals. By hearing first hand from 744 risk and 637 HR professionals across the globe, Marsh learned which people risks will have the most severe impacts, and the barriers preventing firms from mitigating ... Continue Reading »
Get Ready For the Post-Pandemic Health Care Talent Revolution
The adoption of remote work in the health care industry had trailed other industries. Now, as some health care companies begin bouncing back after going fully remote in response to the pandemic, they’re becoming more employee-centric regarding work location and improving employee experience, according to Jim Fields, Partner of Health and Life Services at Oliver Wyman, and ... Continue Reading »
