By Andrew Gissing, Chas Keys, Ryan Crompton The 14th of April, marked the 20th anniversary of the Sydney 1999 hailstorm. The storm is considered to have been Australia’s most expensive insured natural disaster with insurers paying out claims to the…

Ryan Crompton, Thomas Mortlock and Paul Somerville, Risk Frontiers In the Reserve Bank’s first substantial comments on the topic on March 12, deputy governor Guy Debelle warned that climate change could cause financial shocks if companies did not take these…

SIMPLITIUM PRESS RELEASE – 26.03.2019 Risk Frontiers’ HailAUS 7.0 model is now available on ModEx®, the independent multi-vendor catastrophe modelling platform for the insurance industry. Risk Frontiers represent the seventh model vendor on ModEx. Risk Frontiers specialises in disaster risk assessment…

Thomas Mortlock, Jonathan van Leeuwen and Paul Somerville, Risk Frontiers Robert FitzRoy was an English Officer of the Royal Navy, most famously known for captaining HMS Beagle during Darwin’s voyage around the world, and being the 2nd Governor of New…

Sydney Hailstorm: December 20, 2018 by Salomé Hussein and Foster Langbein On December 20, 2018, a severe hailstorm struck the greater Sydney region in the mid-afternoon. The most impacted areas were Liverpool in Sydney’s southwest and further to the north,…

by Ryan Crompton, Andrew Gissing, Thomas Mortlock and Paul Somerville, Risk Frontiers The following article, by Eryk Bagshaw and Nick Bonyhady, appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 12 March 2019. The last line notes that “companies disclosing climate risks…