Yearly Archives: <span>2014</span>
Doing Well and Doing Good: Zurich Insurance Group Commits to Invest up to $2B in Green Bonds
You have a choice between two investment-grade bonds, both yielding a return commensurate with risk. One bond provides funding to projects that help avoid over 450,000 tons of CO2 emissions ...
Let the Sunshine In
In public policy, it has often rightly been said that "sunlight is the best antiseptic." Recognizing this, governments all around the world have begun to open their proceedings more to the public and ...RiskMatch: More Carrier Benefits Summarized
While Kabir Syed, the creator of RiskMatch, stresses that he's built a system that is broker-focused, carriers are key beneficiaries of the information that RiskMatch extracts from brokers to drive ...
Taking a Test Drive: A Carrier CEO Tour of RiskMatch
A carrier CEO who logs onto RiskMatch—the new platform created by Kabir Syed to enhance the relationships of carriers and brokers—is greeted by a screen with a big number in the upper right-hand ...
Who Is Kabir Syed and Why Did He Launch RiskMatch?
During his nearly two decades in the industry, Kabir Syed, founder and CEO of RiskMatch, has held leadership positions in marketing, strategic planning, operations and analytics—most notably at ...
RiskMatch: Unlocking $120B in Premium Opportunities for Carriers
With an ultimate goal of onboarding 97 brokers handling $120 billion of premium on its platform, a new entrant in the world of broker analytics offers carriers a clearer window into relationships ...
Creating Added-Value Data Sets From Weather Model Forecasts
In the first part of this two-part series of articles, we examined the various weather models that drive most of the forecasts used by consumers and businesses to make weather-sensitive decisions. ...
The Role of Models in Weather Forecasting
UKMET. ECMWF. GFS. GFDL. To most of us, this potpourri of letters are seemingly chosen at random and have no meaning. It's almost as if someone reached into a large sack filled with all 26 alphabetic ...