The Exposure Management team within Franchise Performance, is responsible for understanding and managing market aggregation of risks, and produce a number of tools and services to help the market.
Posted by Vinay Mistry on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 9:10 am
A spurious (yet timely) titled lead into an area of the catastrophe bond market that is often over looked—namely, the mortality catastrophe bond market.
The recent incidence of Swine flu has brought some attention to the mortality bond market, and cat bond market issuers and investors will doubtless be keeping a watchful eye on the development [...]
Tags: Bonds, Flu, Natural catastrophes, Pandemic
Posted by Trevor Maynard on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
The Emerging Risks Team at Lloyd’s has been looking at the economic and insurance impacts of pandemics and published a report into the possible insurance impacts of a pandemic (pdf) in 2008, which was also summarised in this recent CII think piece (pdf) .
The current strain of flu that’s causing concern is of the H1N1 type; different to [...]
Posted by Trevor Maynard on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Google have come up with an innovative use of their search engine. They have noticed that the number of people making queries like ‘flu symptoms’ is strongly correlated with the number of doctors visits due to the flu in that region.
Google explain their work and provide a link to this paper (pdf) from Ginsberg et al which [...]
Posted by Trevor Maynard on Friday, October 17th, 2008 at 8:46 am
“Catch it, Bin it, Kill it” is the slogan of the UK Department of Health campaign to reduce the risk of a pandemic emergency. It gives simple, almost obvious, advice to help slow the spread of a flu pandemic. Many forms of pandemic spread via inhalation of water droplets created when we sneeze; if the [...]
Tags: Emerging risks, Lloyd's report, Pandemic, UK Department of Health
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