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NEWARK, CA – May 4th, 2020: RMS, the leading global risk modeling and analytics firm, announced today at its annual Exceedance conference the release of new European Severe Convective Storm (EU SCS) High Definition Models. The models represent 50,000 years of simulation of hail and straight-line wind and tornado risk and include all key lines of business -- including automobile and property. In addition, the models cover 17* countries in Europe, complementing the RMS European climate hazard model suite.
Severe convective storms in Europe generally occur within the mid-latitudes in summer and can cause extensive loss to vehicles and property. Sometimes viewed as an attritional peril, severe convective storm risk is often managed using historical experience, despite incomplete observational reporting. Recent events have shown the potential cost this peril can cause for the (re)insurance industry. From 2013 to 2019, losses from major and attritional severe convective storms exceeded €12 billion.
The models cover the full spectrum of sources of SCS loss, from localized tornadoes and hailstorms to large derechos. The HD framework enables modeling time-based policy conditions such as hours clauses of varying length, fulfilling the diverse needs of European insurers for underwriting, portfolio management, and capital adequacy. The models were developed based on the latest scientific research and complement the existing suite of RMS climate peril models for Europe, providing users with a holistic view of climate risk across the domain.
Severe convective storms have the particularity to drive significant impact to both property and automobile lines of business. RMS employs innovative technology to model the vulnerability of these two lines. This includes dynamic modeling of automobile movement, helping users understand sensitivity in vehicle vulnerability due to variation in location and time of day.
The RMS Severe Convective Storm HD Models benefit from the HD simulation technology available within the RMS unified cloud platform, RMS Risk Intelligence™ (RI). With the new version of Risk Modeler 2.0™, which runs on RI, HD Models will now be integrated to work in the familiar workflows RiskLink® provides for RMS’s existing users, and the new HD Models are seamlessly integrated with RiskLink models for side by side use. The RMS Severe Convective Storm HD models are available today through Analytical Services, for evaluation and validation, and will be running on Risk Modeler 2.0 for summer 2020.
Mohsen Rahnama, Chief Risk Modeling Officer, RMS said:“RMS’ EUSCS HD Models give a pan-European view of convective storm risk, developed using latest scientific research, and complementing the existing RMS Europe Wind & Flood solutions, providing users with a holistic view of climate risk across the domain. It covers the full spectrum of SCS hazards - from localized tornadoes, diverse hailstorms, to large derechos. We use a hybrid modeling approach combining parametric and statistical methods which best capture storm footprints, and their associated frequency and severity, hence enabling the assessment of cross-peril correlations. The multi-peril stochastic set includes over 7.5 million events, covering 17 countries, based on 50,000 years of simulations, so that we appropriately capture the spatial and temporal scale of convective storm risk in the European modelling domain. This provides in-depth analytics not only on potential loss magnitudes for insurers’ portfolios, but it also captures the geographic and sub-peril correlations accurately. The model is calibrated using billions of Euro property and automobiles claims data.”
RMS High Definition Models are the next generation of risk modeling, delivering greater analysis and granularity than ever before. RMS HD Models have now all undergone a significant upgrade as they transitioned to the Risk Modeler application, which gives them greater flexibility and computational strength. The following models are in addition to the US Flood and US Wildfire HD Models that have been available through Risk Modeler’s earlier version:
Each of these models is available today through Analytical Services and for evaluation and validation, and will be coming onto Risk Modeler 2.0 for June-September 2020.
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* - The 17 countries are: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Ireland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. France includes Monaco; Italy includes San Marino and Vatican City.
LONDON – 20th December, 2021 – RMS®, the world’s leading catastrophe risk solutions company, announces that it has formally signed a consulting agreement with Tunis Re to create an exposure and accumulation study, with a focus on Flood, Terrorism and other natural catastrophes. This agreement will enable Tunis Re to increase monitoring of its exposures and further expand its risk management capabilities. Lamia Ben Mahmoud, Chief Executive Officer at Tunis Re, said: “To continue providing our valued clients with the excellent service to which they are accustomed, we continuously look for ways to stay ahead of our exposures and maintain exceptional risk management processes. Our strategic collaboration with RMS, who is highly regarded especially around flood, natural catastrophe and terrorism risks, will enable us to further develop a more comprehensive monitoring of these risks for the benefit of both our team and our clients and our other business partners.” Vivek Bajaj, Managing Director Europe and Asia, RMS, added: “We are delighted to work with Tunis Re on this collaborative initiative. We look forward to assisting them in furthering their awareness and knowledge of their exposures and supporting them as they embark on this journey. This demonstrates our commitment to continued development and growth in the important MENA region.” About Tunis Re Tunis Re is a public limited reinsurance company based in Tunis, Tunisia. Founded in 1981, the company writes both treaty and facultative solutions (non-life and life) and is one of Africa’s leading regional reinsurers. Tunis Re has a diversified global portfolio which expands over 51 countries across the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
LONDON – 13th December, 2021 – RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk solutions company, is working with leading global specialty (re)insurer Canopius to develop and enhance Canopius’ climate change risk analysis with the adoption of RMS Climate Change Models. RMS has worked closely with Canopius to fully integrate the climate change models into its business processes with a focus on North Atlantic hurricane wind and storm surge. The RMS Climate Change Models will also help Canopius to respond to new and emerging regulatory reporting, such as the recent Bank of England Climate Biennial Exploratory Scenario (CBES) exercise, as well as further financial disclosures. RMS Climate Change Models help (re)insurers, such as Canopius, better understand, evaluate, and manage climate change risk in multiple regions using a probabilistic modeling approach. The models offer comprehensive and flexible parameters to seamlessly adjust time horizons and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) to assess the impacts and uncertainties associated with different climate change scenarios. Joss Matthewman, Senior Director, Product Management, RMS, said: “Rigorous and reliable climate change risk analytics are vital for all businesses right now. This is not just about contributing to increased regulation and financial disclosures, but also providing clients with strategic insights and outcomes for short-, medium- and long-term horizons. We are pleased to continue our work with Canopius, and we see more companies across the insurance and reinsurance industry defining best practices around climate change and investing in the future of our industry.” Paul Wilkinson, Head of Aggregation and Risk Strategy, Canopius said: “Climate change presents one of the most significant risks to the (re)insurance industry. It is important to us to incorporate the latest science relating to climate change into our risk analytics in a manner that can be tailored to our needs and fully integrated across key business operations, such as portfolio management, near-term underwriting, and business planning. The RMS models enable adjusting time horizons for the near- and long-term, which, combined with the full flexibility and range of the IPCC’s Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios allows us to confidently assess North Atlantic hurricane climate change risks.”
LONDON – 7th December, 2021 – Specialist global insurer Hiscox is working with RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk solutions company, to extend and increase its use of groundbreaking RMS Location Intelligence API technology, to improve the customer experience for its coverholders by providing real-time tailored quotes. RMS Location Intelligence provides market-leading modeling data offering high-resolution, location-level hazard, risk, and loss metrics. The use of an application programming interface (API) to integrate RMS data directly into Hiscox systems allows real-time responses to coverholders, and no lost business due to slow response times. RMS Location Intelligence also provides a live view of Hiscox’s bound portfolio enabling active management of risk aggregation and greater opportunities for dynamic pricing. Paul Butler, Technology Director, Hiscox, said: “It is no secret that technology continues to be a major driver across all aspects of the insurance industry. At Hiscox we are accelerating investment in our data and analytical capabilities to enable us to capture new opportunities in the market. Our Coverholder relationships are vital to our business growth at Hiscox and since working with RMS Location Intelligence API, our FloodPlus book has doubled year on year, now generating in the region of 20,000 quotes per week. The millisecond response times are needed to keep our overall API response time below four seconds – our benchmark for providing real-time and automated trading platforms in FloodPlus and BindPlus.” Jason Futers, Managing Director at RMS, said: “There has been huge growth in the Coverholder market, and many sophisticated carriers are now moving to live quoting of delegated business so that they can precisely tailor pricing to their view of risk and build a better book of business. RMS Location Intelligence offers real-time screening and pricing analytics from RMS data and models that enable carriers to adopt a consistent view across the full risk transfer process, from individual risks through to portfolio management. Being able to provide coverholders with real-time, fully automated quotes is a gamechanger that is driving increases to the quote-to-bind ratios, and improvements in the quality and quantity of underwritten policies.” About the Hiscox Group Hiscox is a global specialist insurer, headquartered in Bermuda and listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:HSX). Our ambition is to be a respected specialist insurer with a diverse portfolio by product and geography. We believe that building balance between catastrophe-exposed business and less volatile local specialty business gives us opportunities for profitable growth throughout the insurance cycle. The Hiscox Group employs over 3,000 people in 14 countries, and has customers worldwide. Through the retail businesses in the UK, Europe, Asia and the USA, we offer a range of specialist insurance for professionals and business customers as well as homeowners. Internationally traded, bigger ticket business and reinsurance is underwritten through Hiscox London Market and Hiscox Re & ILS. Our values define our business, with a focus on people, courage, ownership and integrity. We pride ourselves on being true to our word and our award-winning claims service is testament to that. For more information, visit www.hiscoxgroup.com
