Climate, Correlation, and Cat Bond Investing with Plenum Investments’ Dirk Schmelzer
We speak with Dirk Schmelzer, Partner at Plenum Investments in Zurich. Dirk has spent more than 15 years managing catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities funds, and he brings a practitioner’s...
10 Sep 202546min
Why Trust, Transparency, and Testing Define the Future of Cat Bonds And Models with KCC’s Karen Clark
This week we speak with Karen Clark, founder of Karen Clark & Company, about the evolution of catastrophe modeling and the shift toward higher-frequency, climate-driven events.
3 Sep 202541min
The Modeled Through Line from Hurricane Katrina to Cyber Catastrophe Risk with Fermat Capital’s John Seo
John Seo, founder of Fermat Capital, about the lessons of Katrina for catastrophe bonds and models 20 years later. (00:00) - Introduction (02:00) - Katrina as a Market Catalyst (06:30) - Investor Conf...
27 Aug 202552min
Pricing and Modeling Wildfire Risk in the Nation's Most Expensive Housing Market with Stanford's Michael Wara
Less than a year after the devastating Los Angeles fires, I’m joined by Michael Wara from Stanford University.We explore why Michael is skeptical about California developing a public wildfire model, d...
20 Aug 202554min
Severe Convective Storms are Reshaping Insurance and Modeling with Dr. Victor Gensini
We talk with Dr. Victor Gensini, a professor at Northern Illinois University and one of the leading experts on severe convective storms. Dr. Gensini works with the Insurance Information Institute and ...
13 Aug 202545min
Cascading Risks And a Cascadia Mega Quake With Dr. Tina Dura
In this episode we talk with Dr. Tina Dura, a coastal hazard researcher at Virginia Tech, as she unpacks a threat that most risk models still underestimate: Sudden land subsidence from a long expected...
30 Jul 202542min
Multi‑Hazard Events, Messy Data and Climate Insurance Models with Michiel Ingels
We're joined by Michiel W. Ingels, lead author of research that takes stock of the state of climate risk insurance modeling and maps out where it needs to go next.
23 Jul 202538min
Floods, Risk Models, and the Future of Insurance With ReThought's Cory Isaacson
On this episode of the Risky Science Podcast, we talk with Cory Isaacson, CEO of ReThought Insurance — a longtime tech and insurance executive who’s spent years building new models aimed at making flo...
16 Jul 202542min
