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Guy Carpenter launches new investment structure for climate change insurance
12 June 2023Guy 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".
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Climate change "an important factor" in reinsurance renewals
06 January 2020The 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.
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Outstanding risk capital in cat bond market soars to new high
04 February 2015Total 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.
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New study will examine emerging risks facing energy finance
01 October 2014A 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.
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Mercer to analyse climate risks, backed by investors worth $1.5trn
22 September 2014Global investors managing a combined $1.5 trillion have teamed up with consultancy Mercer to help it analyse the risks climate change poses to portfolios.
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Weather and Catastrophe Risk: The winds of change
09 December 2013Winners in the weather risk market are increasingly seeing demand for risk protection broaden beyond the conventional energy market. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports