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  • Guy Carpenter launches new investment structure for climate change insurance

    12 June 2023

    Guy Carpenter and an academic from Queen Mary University of London have outlined a re/insurance structure, partly backed by private investors, "to facilitate improved financial resilience and loss prevention for climate change-related weather risks".

  • Climate change "an important factor" in reinsurance renewals

    06 January 2020

    The impact of climate change was "an important factor" during negotiations on the price of retrocession agreements in the 1 January renewals, according to Guy Carpenter.

  • Catastrophe Risk: Citizens Property Insurance/Everglades Re cat bond

    01 April 2015

    The stand-out transaction in last year's buoyant market for catastrophe (cat) bonds, was undoubtedly the $1.5 billion issue for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation of Florida.

  • Outstanding risk capital in cat bond market soars to new high

    04 February 2015

    Total risk capital in the catastrophe (cat) bond market reached a record high of $22.9 billion at the end of December, according to reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter.

  • New study will examine emerging risks facing energy finance

    01 October 2014

    A study into the changing risks facing investments in energy infrastructure has been launched by the World Energy Council in partnership with the re/insurance company Swiss Re and advisory firm Marsh & McLennan.

  • Mercer to analyse climate risks, backed by investors worth $1.5trn

    22 September 2014

    Global investors managing a combined $1.5 trillion have teamed up with consultancy Mercer to help it analyse the risks climate change poses to portfolios.

  • Weather and Catastrophe Risk: The winds of change

    09 December 2013

    Winners in the weather risk market are increasingly seeing demand for risk protection broaden beyond the conventional energy market. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports