Opening China’s Weather Risk Markets with climateHedge’s Jim Huang
China was once seen as a vast, untapped frontier for global risk finance — drawing interest from New York to London. Yet a combination of geopolitical headwinds and trade tensions has cooled expansion...
29 Okt 202542min
Sweet Earnings, Sour Investors and the Insurance Cycle Reset with KBW’s Meyer Shields
This week I’m joined by Meyer Shields of KBW, one of the most followed insurance analysts on Wall Street. We get into what’s driving that split, how AI and modeling are — or aren’t — starting to show ...
22 Okt 202529min
Building Trust In AI-Driven Weather and Risk Models With Dr. Hansi Singh
This week’s guest is Dr. Hansi Singh, an Earth system scientist who’s worked at the U.S. Department of Energy, taught in academia, and now leads a startup called Plannette.AI, which blends physics and...
15 Okt 202547min
From Models to Markets and Future of Catastrophe Risk with Dr. Paul Wilson
Dr. Paul Wilson, Head of Catastrophe and Climate Research at Twelve Securis, a leading insurance-linked securities asset manager, sits down for a live recording of the Risky Science Podcast.
1 Okt 202541min
AI, Climate, Catastrophe and Why Markets Need To Rethink Risk with Dr. Seth Baum
We sit down with Dr. Seth Baum, Executive Director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and research affiliate at Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. We explore how s...
24 Sep 202543min
Prediction markets and disrupting insurance with Kalshi's Shannon Magiera
Join the Risky Science Podcast for a live discussion with Dr. Paul Wilson, Tuesday, September 23, 11 a.m. ET.Register Here
17 Sep 202533min
Climate, Correlation, and Cat Bond Investing with Plenum Investments’ Dirk Schmelzer
We speak with Dirk Schmelzer, Partner at Plenum Investments in Zurich. Dirk has spent more than 15 years managing catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities funds, and he brings a practitioner’s...
10 Sep 202546min
Why Trust, Transparency, and Testing Define the Future of Cat Bonds And Models with KCC’s Karen Clark
This week we speak with Karen Clark, founder of Karen Clark & Company, about the evolution of catastrophe modeling and the shift toward higher-frequency, climate-driven events.
3 Sep 202541min
