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ABI chair and former MP join UK's pandemic risk pool initiative

Pandemic Re Steering Committee forms six working groups

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Impact Forecasting eases access to third-party cat models

Releases version 10 of cat modelling platform, Elements

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Willis Re launches Japan tsunami model

Incorporates data from 2011 disaster

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Oasis: a threat or a complement to the cat model giants?

A new open-source loss modelling framework, Oasis, is threatening to shake up the catastophe modelling establishment. Jamie Bullen asks insurers, scientists and cat modellers how they see it developing

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Oasis launches open source cat modelling software

Framework is backed by 21 re/insurers and brokers

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Cat modellers set out their platforms

For Eqecat, AIR and RMS, the future is platforms and the promise to give clients more model transparency and control. Open-architecture initiatives such as Oasis are also gearing up. Lorna Davies details the developments

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Oasis roll-out gathers pace

Cat model framework looking for four more players to sign up

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Pioneering new approaches to longevity and mortality risk

To model longevity improvements more accurately, Swiss Re is tapping different data sources and collaborating with a range of professions and academics. One motivation: the reinsurer is a significant holder of mortality and longevity risk, as this week's latest Vita mortality bond underlines (see news section). Swiss Re's Daniel Ryan talks to InsuranceERM

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Research projects driven by mix of altruism and business logic

Climate change, floods, longevity, volcanoes, the Arctic ice cap, the Great Barrier Reef - all have been the subject of various research projects funded by re/insurers or brokers. However altruistic the support of these projects appears, they all ultimately bring some benefit to the sponsors, as Sarfraz Thind explains

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Oasis cat modelling initiative holds inaugural meeting

But members still not named