Venezuela, The Built Environment And Lessons of a Catastrophic Earthquake
This week we focus on the tragic catastrophe in Venezuela, where powerful earthquakes tore along the San Sebastián fault and devastated Caracas. As a result, buildings collapsed, the airport shut down...
1 Jul 38min
Sticky Liabilities, Illiquid Assets and the Private Credit Perception Gap
A year ago, I sat down with Carmi Margalit, Managing Director and the Life Insurance Sector Lead at Standard & Poor’s Annual Insurance Conference to talk about private credit on insurance balance shee...
24 Jun 29min
2026 Hurricane Season: Risk, Markets, Models
This is the audio recording of our June 11 panel on the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season — three people who actually price this risk for a living, in conversation for an hour.The ground they cover: wher...
17 Jun 1h 6min
Ebola, Statistics, and What Pandemic Science Can Teach Markets
The Democratic Republic of Congo is in the middle of its 17th Ebola outbreak since 1976 and the WHO has declared a public health emergency of international concern. There are no approved vaccines. No ...
27 Mai 54min
Wildfire's Garbage-In Problem With Brian Bastian
California’s homeowners insurance market, backed by privae capital, is still in retreat. The publicly-backed FAIR Plan is financial buckling. And somewhere in the gap between what the cat models captu...
20 Mai 25min
Modeling Every Risk for Every Client with Willis' Ben Fidlow
Ben Fidlow is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and leads analytics and risk advisory at Willis. In this episode, he explains how brokerage modeling differs fundamentally from carrier or vend...
13 Mai 25min
The Wrong Model for the Wrong Job With Roy Wright
In this episode of Risky Science, recorded at ClimateTech Connect in April, IBHS CEO Roy Wright breaks down why catastrophe models were never designed to price individual risk, why mitigation only wor...
6 Mai 24min
The LA Fires and the Risk Market Value Chain With Joy Chen
The Eaton and Palisades fires are now the most expensive wildfire disaster in U.S. history — and what's happening in Los Angeles right now is a real-time stress test of the entire insurance value chai...
28 Apr 42min
