The Australian Climate Index, compiled by Finity’s climate risk team, showed winter was relatively benign across most of Australia, with the Index falling to levels not seen since winter 2015….
The Australian Climate Index, updated quarterly by Finity’s climate team on behalf of the Actuaries Institute has shown the return to relative normality in the weather over the past season….
Welcome to the latest Finity Climate Risk Blog, which looks at price dislocations & the future of fire insurance. The current home insurance pricing framework in Australia has evolved to…
Welcome to the seventh edition of the Finity Climate Risk Blog and the first of the decade, which focuses on an insight into why countries struggle with acting on decarbonisation…
Welcome to the sixth edition of the Finity Climate Risk Blog, which focuses on cyber exposure as a component of transition risk and how recent assertions of an affordability crisis…
According to the Australian Actuaries Climate Index (AACI) measure of extreme values, winter 2019 was among the driest since the beginning of the reference period (1981-1990). Acute dry conditions affected…
The issue of the availability and affordability of property insurance in Northern Australia has been the subject of government inquiries and generated considerable media attention. In this blog we consider…
In this fourth edition of the Finity Climate Risk Blog, our Climate Risk Team focus on climate change financing issues – its getting warmer but how do the economics play…
In this edition we look at the current average annual cost of natural peril events in Australia. This is an important figure for financial institutions and government to understand…
In this second edition of our Climate Risk Blog we look at the recent ACCC Northern Australia insurance inquiry interim report. Background The ACCC Northern Australia inquiry, which relates to home…