ILS market eyes weather research as a new opportunity

Publish Date: August 22, 2013
Article Source: Royal Gazette
Article Link: www.aer.com/news-events/in-the-news/2013/ils-market-eyes-weather-research-new-opportunity

Royal Gazette article link: ILS market eyes weather research as a new opportunity

"The insurance linked securities (ILS) market could benefit from research being conducted by Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER). Emerging Risk. The Bermuda Stock Exchange has 50 percent, or $7 billion, of the global ILS market listed. The market is currently seeing significant growth.

"AER announced last week that its scientists have begun a new emerging risk research programme entitled Climate Change: Tornado and Hail, to quantify any shifts in the patterns of hazard related to severe thunderstorms in North America."

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Read more about the AER Emerging Risk research program Climate Change: Tornado and Hail.