This year’s season for wildfires is shaping up to be even more devastating than those of recent years. With reduced humidity, increasing drought and strong winds, how can we build better resiliency? Sydney Hedberg, Associate Director, Marsh McLennan Advantage; Andy Read, Vice President, Public Sector Practice, Guy Carpenter; and Sydney Chamberlin, Climate Policy Associate, ... Continue Reading »
Videocasts
Video: Public-Private Partnerships Play Key Role in Tackling Climate Risk
In this video, Josh Darr, Managing Director, Head of North America Peril Advisory for Guy Carpenter, talks about the need for a high-profile champion within the federal government to address climate-related market risks, and the progress we are seeing in this area. ... Continue Reading »
Video: The Tangible Economic Cost of Action Related to Climate Change is High, Inaction Higher
In this video, Josh Darr, Head of North America Peril Advisory, Guy Carpenter, and Jessica Turner, Managing Director, Catastrophe Advisory, Guy Carpenter, highlight how the tangible economic cost of action related to climate change may be high, but the cost of inaction is ultimately higher. They also discuss the scientific advances being made for climate change risk ... Continue Reading »
Video: What Lessons Can We Take From the COVID-19 Experience to Globally Mobilize a Whole-of-Society Response?
In this video, Jessica Turner, Managing Director, Catastrophe Advisory, Guy Carpenter, and Josh Darr, Head of North America Peril Advisory, Guy Carpenter, relate how society mobilized and came together in the pursuit of the same goal in response to COVID, demonstrating that we can use the same focus towards the next group of challenges around climate change, biodiversity, ... Continue Reading »
Decrypting the Misconceptions Around Ransomware
Ransomware has progressively become a loss trend across the cyber industry, with pricing strategies being recalibrated to account for this growing risk. Guy Carpenter is working closely with our clients to share updates on the threat landscape, deliver cyber industry insights, construct relevant modeling scenarios, and design reinsurance placements to protect these portfolios. ... Continue Reading »
Video: Dean Klisura, President, Guy Carpenter, On the Reinsurance Landscape
Guy Carpenter President, Dean Klisura, speaks with The Insurer on a wide-ranging set of topics that include the Changing Nature of Risk, the COVID-19 excess of loss claims arena, broker consolidation and race for talent, public-private structures for systemic cyber, future pandemic (re)insurance solutions and the insurance-linked securities renaissance. ... Continue Reading »
Video: Peter Hearn: Navigating the Changing Nature of Risk – Opportunities and Reinsurance Support
Peter Hearn, CEO, Guy Carpenter, talks to Asia Insurance Review about the impact the changing risk landscape will have on the insurance industry – how the industry should respond to these changes – and how reinsurance can support these new opportunities. Reinsurance supports insurance carriers in many dimensions – it is a flexible capital tool, it supports growth, and it ... Continue Reading »
Video: UK Climate Stress Test a Sign of Increasing Scrutiny of Insurer Climate Risk
Jessica Turner, Ph.D., Managing Director, Catastrophe Advisory, Guy Carpenter, speaks with The Insurer about the Bank of England’s climate stress test. It is a sign that central banks and international regulators are looking to “ramp up” oversight of insurer climate risk. ... Continue Reading »
Video: Captive Trends and Data – What You Should Know
The use of captive insurance companies grew significantly in 2020, and there are no signs of it slowing down in 2021. The webinar and accompanying slide deck from Marsh McLennan business Marsh highlight the record number of companies that formed a captive last year, how they are using them and what's ahead for the captive industry. ... Continue Reading »
Video: Heightened Volatility and Prolonged Uncertainty To Drive Reinsurance Demand in 2021
David Priebe, Chairman, Guy Carpenter, highlights how, while the industry is facing a range of new risks in 2021, it is presented with new opportunities. ... Continue Reading »
