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  • Guy Carpenter warns of "growing protection gap" in flood-risk areas of US

    14 July 2025

    Riverine flooding in Texas last week "underscores the growing protection gap in areas where flood risk is high, but perceived risk and insurance uptake remains low," according to a briefing note from Guy Carpenter yesterday.

  • Guy Carpenter launches new investment structure for climate change insurance

    12 June 2023

    Guy Carpenter and an academic from Queen Mary University of London have outlined a re/insurance structure, partly backed by private investors, "to facilitate improved financial resilience and loss prevention for climate change-related weather risks".

  • Climate change "an important factor" in reinsurance renewals

    06 January 2020

    The impact of climate change was "an important factor" during negotiations on the price of retrocession agreements in the 1 January renewals, according to Guy Carpenter.

  • Catastrophe Risk: Citizens Property Insurance/Everglades Re cat bond

    01 April 2015

    The stand-out transaction in last year's buoyant market for catastrophe (cat) bonds, was undoubtedly the $1.5 billion issue for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation of Florida.

  • Outstanding risk capital in cat bond market soars to new high

    04 February 2015

    Total risk capital in the catastrophe (cat) bond market reached a record high of $22.9 billion at the end of December, according to reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter.

  • New study will examine emerging risks facing energy finance

    01 October 2014

    A study into the changing risks facing investments in energy infrastructure has been launched by the World Energy Council in partnership with the re/insurance company Swiss Re and advisory firm Marsh & McLennan.

  • Mercer to analyse climate risks, backed by investors worth $1.5trn

    22 September 2014

    Global investors managing a combined $1.5 trillion have teamed up with consultancy Mercer to help it analyse the risks climate change poses to portfolios.

  • Weather and Catastrophe Risk: The winds of change

    09 December 2013

    Winners in the weather risk market are increasingly seeing demand for risk protection broaden beyond the conventional energy market. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports