22 // THE DISASTER GAP: HOW INSURERS AND THE CAPITAL MARKETS CAN HARNESS BIG DATA TO CLOSE THE GAP


DEDICATIONS


BNY Mellon would like to thank the following experts for their insight and contributions to this report:


Luca Albertini, chief executive officer of Leadenhall Capital Partners. London- based investment manager Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP is wholly focused on investing in insurance-linked investment portfolios for institutional investors. It was set up as a joint venture between international Lloyd’s insurer Amlin Group and Leadenhall’s highly experienced management team.


Bill Dubinsky, head of Willis Capital Markets & Advisory. WCMA is a specialised investment banking boutique exclusively focused on the insurance industry with ILS underwriting as one of its solutions.


Steve Evans, founder of Artemis. www.artemis.bm is the leading website for news and analysis on catastrophe bonds, insurance-linked securities, reinsurance and weather risk transfer.


Ismet Güngör, coordinator of the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool at Eureko Sigorta. Established in 2000, the TCIP is responsible for provision, implementation and management of compulsory earthquake insurance in Turkey.


Eugene Gurenko, lead insurance specialist at the World Bank. The World Bank’s Disaster Risk Financial and Insurance (DRFI) Program helps developing countries increase their financial and fiscal financial resilience against natural disasters within the broader disaster risk management and climate change adaptation agenda.


Dr Andreas Müller, head of the ILS Investments Department in Munich Re’s Risk Trading Unit. Munich Re is the world’s biggest reinsurance company, combining primary insurance and reinsurance under one roof, and offers expert solutions across all lines of insurance business including ILS.


Alex Plenty, associate partner, business analytics and optimisation, Global Business Services at IBM. IBM has carried out in-depth research and published several papers investigating how solutions designed for big data can help insurers accelerate the speed and increase the precision of catastrophe risk modelling.


Martyn Street and Chris Waterman are directors of Fitch Ratings. Fitch is a global rating agency which covers all areas of the insurance market including life, property & casualty and reinsurance.


Mark Wei, chairman of KGI Securities. With total assets of about TWD150 billion and over 4,500 employees in all main markets in the Asia-Pacific region, including: Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Thailand and Singapore. KGI Securities provides a fully functional platform of investment products, including securities, asset management, derivatives, fixed income, and corporate and personal investment services.


Dickie Whitaker, director of the Lighthill Risk Network and Oasis Loss Modelling Framework. Oasis provides a new, more transparent way of modelling catastrophes, allowing users to fully test uncertainty in model results.


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