Nice to see this innovative cat bond (modeled by my team at Moody's!) getting some attention! Fortifying roofs against hurricanes is a win for both insurers and insureds, but requires upfront investment. Instruments like this cat bond unlock the capital that is needed for these mitigation measures.

Just took the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan; this feels like the future! But it's reassuring that even on a fancy train like this, the wifi is still extremely bad. Can't have everything, I suppose...

Another cool Moody's piece, that some members of my team worked on! How will physical risk impact GDP and Commercial Real Estate portfolios in the future? www.moodys.com/web/en/us/in...

What are the macroeconomic effects of a major hurricane impacting Florida? Some really cool work our team did in collaboration with our economist colleagues at Moody's. Check out the interactive data story as well as the full whitepaper! www.moodys.com/web/en/us/in... www.economy.com/the-macroeco...

Which emerging risks are on people's mind within the insurance industry? Check out this new data story on 10 emerging risks presented at Moody's Exceedance this week! www.moodys.com/web/en/us/in...

I feel seen

"QGIS is the Excel of geospatial analysis" feels like it comes straight out of my brain

"On Thursday, in an indication of expanded concern, S&P said it was assessing the threat of wildfire on the creditworthiness of all bond sellers in California."

I am once again begging the New York Times to stop treating a private company’s marketing materials as anything even remotely approaching a scientific consensus Which is not to say there’s not a consensus that hazards are getting worse or that it will affect insurance rates

I completely agree we should always take a skeptical view of commercial climate risk products AND ALSO acknowledge that it's really freaking hard to correctly take the measure of things we've seen happen either once or never.

Another great post by Bartosz! Definitely also check out his archive, it's full of gems like these. In depth science communication at its best.

Fun little advent challenge! Let's see how far my #rstats skills have come in my two years of use!

From my 'to read' backlog, just read this interesting account of the role of the (re)insurance industry in the climate change discourse. I like how it shows the journey of reinsurers from seeing the first signals of CC, to becoming powerful communicators on CC. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

**New Paper Alert** Thrilled to finally announce the release of our Part 1 paper that re-evaluates and quantifies (normalizes) historical US hurricane losses. This builds upon previous work by introducing counties affected by the radius of maximum wind. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... (1/n)