A Personal Account of Hurricane Matthew
Managing Catastrophic Events with Data Analytics and Modeling During the night of Hurricane Matthew, I happen to read the Three Little Pigs to my three-year old daughter. We were at home winding [...]
Speed of thought risk analytics
What is speed-of-thought risk analytics? There is a paradigm shift happening in the world of (re)insurance risk analytics. It is driven by the advent of the latest generation of high-performance [...]
Global Risk – Juggling The Responsibility
Global risk management requires effective regulatory oversight. Regulation in Latin America leaves the management of environmental risks the responsibility of companies, so mitigating and [...]
Swift Data
Big Data to Swift Data While most of us are still coming to terms with big data – often described by the 4 Vs (volume, velocity, variety, and veracity; some add value to this list and make [...]
New Technology Helps Brokers, Risk Managers Manage Complex Property Risks
by: Eduardo Hernandez, Co-Founder, EigenRisk, Inc. Today, creating effective global property insurance programs involves both the efficient deployment of underwriting capacity and the accurate [...]
Exposure Analytics for Risk Managers – Analyze This!
“Times are changing. You’ve got to change with the times”. “What am I supposed to do…get a website?” Back in 1999, when I watched the movie Analyze This, it was rather whimsical to hear a mob [...]
Quantitative Corporate Risk Management – Ready for Take Off
On September 1, 1983, a fighter jet shot down a Korean Airlines plane bound to Seoul from Anchorage. All 269 passengers and crew perished. It was determined that the airplane strayed off course [...]
Bringing Real Transparency to Risk Modeling
A few years ago, I was offered a chance to interview for a newly created leadership position at a catastrophe risk modeling firm, in which I would be responsible for “transparency”. I turned down [...]
