Aon Benfield
Impact Forecasting
Impact Forecasting
Transparent and customisable
catastrophe models and platform
Winter/Spring 2016
Risk. Reinsurance. Human Resources.
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About Impact Forecasting
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Model Coverage Map
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Model Coverage Index
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In an increasingly risky world, insurers and reinsurers need more
sophisticated tools to quantify and manage the risks facing their
businesses. Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe
model development centre of excellence, enables firms to
analyse the financial implications of catastrophic events and
achieve a greater understanding of their risks.
Breadth of Model Coverage
With over 100 probabilistic and scenario models spanning 10 perils and over 60
territories, we empower insurers by providing risk insights for the peak risk zones
around the globe, as well as for the emerging markets. This allows insurers to place
effective reinsurance programmes and manage capital based on more accurate model
results. Impact Forecasting partners with academic and industry organisations around
the world to incorporate the latest research into all of our catastrophe models.
Customisable models
All Impact Forecasting models can be customised based on the client’s requirements
for example using an insurer’s loss data to generate more accurate results for a specific
line of business, modify an existing event to explore the sensitivity of the losses for
regulatory purposes or explore hazard uncertainty for a given peril.
Recent examples
include using our engineering expertise to apply claims data from churches and
greenhouses to create bespoke damage functions and exploring uncertainty in the
hazard component of our US hurricane model.
Transparent ELEMENTS loss calculation platform
Catastrophe Analysis and Reporting
Impact Forecasting provides real-time
information on catastrophic events through
Cat Alerts, Weekly and Monthly Cat Recaps
and the Annual Global Climate and
Catastrophe Report.
The Catastrophe Insight portal provides
aggregated economic and insured loss data for
global natural catastrophe events during the
current year plus the previous decade. Users
can compare losses by peril or region.
catastropheinsight.aonbenfield.com
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Our models run in ELEMENTS, which gives insurers the ability to incorporate their own
view of risk into model results. It delivers transparency so every step of the calculation
process is clearly defined and can be easily explained to stakeholders, regulators and
rating agencies while helping to quantify uncertainty in various model components.
As a universal catastrophe modelling platform, ELEMENTS has the ability to run both
Impact Forecasting models and third party models for any peril or territory.
It also
enables users to quantify and visualise the range of uncertainties to make business
decisions based on their individual risk appetites.
Risk rating information to enhance primary underwriting
Impact Forecasting’s set of hazard and risk score products—based on its modelled data—
enables more accurate underwriting and risk assessment for natural and man-made
hazards. The data helps insurers and corporations understand the impact of catastrophe
risk on individual locations and then in turn estimate how much premium to charge.
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. Model Coverage Map
Western Europe
Probabilistic
Japan
Central and Eastern Europe
Scenario
Probabilistic
**
Scenario
Bulgaria
**
Cyprus
Probabilistic
South Korea
Scenario
France
Probabilistic
Israel
Probabilistic
Scenario
Probabilistic
China
Probabilistic
Greece
Probabilistic
Germany
Kazakhstan
Scenario
Canada
Probabilistic Scenario
Scenario
Pakistan
Hong Kong
Scenario
Scenario
Probabilistic
United States of America
Probabilistic
Italy
Ireland
Scenario
Puerto Rico
Turkey
Probabilistic Scenario
Probabilistic
India
Vietnam
Probabilistic Scenario
Scenario
Probabilistic Scenario
Taiwan
Virgin Islands
Probabilistic
Luxembourg
Thailand
Probabilistic
Algeria
Probabilistic
Probabilistic
Scenario
Malaysia
Scenario
Probabilistic
Scenario
Oman
Probabilistic Scenario
Kenya
Scenario
United Arab Emirates
Scenario
Poland
Portugal
Switzerland
Slovakia
Slovenia
United
Kingdom
Scenario
Qatar
Probabilistic
Montenegro
Indonesia
Tanzania
Probabilistic
Hungary
Singapore
Probabilistic
Probabilistic
Czech Republic
Serbia
Scenario
Kuwait
Probabilistic
Croatia
Romania
Scenario
Scenario
Chile
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Netherlands
Probabilistic Scenario
Morocco
Probabilistic Scenario
Mexico
Liechtenstein
Probabilistic
Saudi Arabia
Scenario
Austria
Denmark
Probabilistic
Belgium
Scenario
Philippines
Uganda
Probabilistic
Probabilistic Scenario
Bahrain
Probabilistic
Scenario
Australia
South Africa
Probabilistic
Scenario
Yemen
Probabilistic
Scenario
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earthquake
life - earthquake
tropical cyclone
tornado*
windstorm
flood
storm
surge
tsunami
cloudburst
terrorism
life - terrorism
workers’
compensation
*tornado / hail / severe winds / thunderstorm
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. Model Coverage Index
Country
Probabilistic
Scenario
Country
Probabilistic
Algeria
earthquake
earthquake
Montenegro
earthquake
flood
Morocco
earthquake
earthquake
Netherlands
storm surge and riverine flood,
windstorm
storm surge and riverine flood,
windstorm
Oman
earthquake
earthquake
Australia
Scenario
Austria
earthquake, flood
flood
Bahrain
earthquake
earthquake
Belgium
windstorm
windstorm
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
earthquake
Bulgaria
earthquake
Canada
flood
flood
Portugal
Chile
earthquake, tsunami
earthquake, tsunami
Puerto Rico
earthquake, tropical cyclone
earthquake, tropical cyclone
China
tropical cyclone
flood
Qatar
earthquake
earthquake
Croatia
earthquake
Romania
earthquake
Cyprus
earthquake
earthquake
Saudi Arabia
earthquake
Czech Republic
flood
flood
Serbia
earthquake
Denmark
windstorm
windstorm
France
windstorm
windstorm, flood
Germany
earthquake, terrorism, life-terrorism,
storm surge, windstorm
flood, storm surge, windstorm
Greece
earthquake
earthquake
Guam
Pakistan
earthquake
Philippines
tropical cyclone
earthquake
Poland
tropical cyclone
tropical cyclone
flood
flood
flood
Singapore
cloudburst, earthquake, flood
earthquake
Slovakia
earthquake, flood
Slovenia
earthquake
South Africa
earthquake
South Korea
tropical cyclone
flood
Hong Kong
tropical cyclone
Sweden
Hungary
earthquake, flood
Switzerland
earthquake, flood
India
tropical cyclone
flood
Taiwan
tropical cyclone
Indonesia
flood
earthquake, flood
Tanzania
earthquake
flood, tropical cyclone
earthquake, flood
earthquake, life-earthquake
cloudburst
Ireland
windstorm
windstorm
Thailand
Israel
earthquake, life-earthquake
earthquake, life-earthquake
Turkey
earthquake, life-earthquake
flood
earthquake
flood
Uganda
Japan
earthquake, tropical cyclone
earthquake, tropical cyclone,
tsunami, flood
United Kingdom
terrorism, life-terrorism,
windstorm
windstorm
Kazakhstan
earthquake
earthquake
United Arab Emirates
earthquake
earthquake
Kenya
earthquake
Kuwait
earthquake
earthquake
United States of
America
earthquake, flood, life-terrorism,
storm surge, terrorism, tropical
cyclone, tornado
Liechtenstein
flood
flood
earthquake, flood, life-terrorism,
storm surge, terrorism, tornado /
hail / severe winds / thunderstorm,
tropical cyclone
Luxembourg
windstorm
windstorm
Vietnam
tropical cyclone
flood
Malaysia
tropical cyclone, flood
flood
Virgin Islands
earthquake, tropical cyclone
earthquake, tropical cyclone
flood
Yemen
earthquake
earthquake
Italy
Mexico
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. About Impact Forecasting
Impact Forecasting is Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development centre of excellence
whose seismologists, meteorologists, engineers, mathematicians, finance risk management
and insurance professionals analyse the financial implications of natural and man-made
catastrophes around the world. Impact Forecasting’s experts develop a suite of probabilistic
and scenario models, plus its transparent and customisable ELEMENTS loss calculation platform.
These empower insurers and reinsurers to understand the impact of global risks ranging from
hurricane, earthquake and flood to tsunami, cloudburst and terrorism. To find out more about
Impact Forecasting® LLC, visit www.impactforecasting.com
Impact Forecasting Contact
Adam Podlaha
+44 (0)20 7522 3820
adam.podlaha@aonbenfield.com
impactforecasting.com
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