Moody’s RMS and Augment Risk partner on parametric risk transfer market

Moody’s RMS, the global catastrophe risk modeling and solutions company, has strategically collaborated with innovative reinsurance brokerage firm Augment Risk, to develop the market for parametric risk transfer.

The collaboration aims to serve a range of clients including large corporates with captives, Lloyd’s syndicates, and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds who are all looking at the range of benefits parametric re/insurance solutions offer.

The focus will also be on a cross-section of perils including windstorms, earthquakes, wildfires, and severe convective storms.

Ben Brookes, Managing Director, Moody’s RMS, commented, “We believe parametric risk transfer products will play an increasingly important role in managing risk. Parametric risk transfer offers the combined benefits of high transparency and complete risk disclosure, plus the prospect of rapid loss settlement. We look forward to continuing to open up significant market growth by increasing the use of sophisticated risk models and basis risk analytics as enablers.”

With the insurance industry striving to better gauge extreme weather, climate change, and other natural peril catastrophes impacting communities worldwide, parametric solutions are increasingly being viewed as a realistic and effective alternative to more traditional forms of catastrophe protection.

Kurt Cripps, Global Head of Parametric at Augment Risk, added: “Working with Moody’s RMS will allow our clients access to some of the most advanced risk analytics capabilities in the world and will develop modeling specifically for parametric reinsurance protections. For index-based solutions to grow as an asset class the modeling must underpin the view of risk from an empirical and stochastic standpoint.

“Furthermore, demonstrating how the product responds to certain perils is key for achieving solvency benefits for carriers. As this embryonic market establishes itself it is evident that buyers and sellers will require absolute transparency on the index and the actual and projected losses for a given risk.”

The collaboration, according to the companies, will help deliver well-structured, consistent risk transfer submissions to the market, by enabling placements to be syndicated among various capital sources. Using more detailed modeling, inclusive of industry loss, empirical, and stochastic analysis, should help build greater trust toward developing parametric policies as an alternative to traditional products, the pair feel.

The hope is that as confidence grows in parametric solutions as a class of business this will attract greater investment.

Cripps added, “Risk is more extensive and complex than ever before, and this collaboration will allow our partners to make more informed, accurate, efficient, and confident risk management decisions, armed with the latest models that the markets use to assist in pricing parametric risk.

“By keeping clients fully informed, we can achieve more consistent prices and help normalize this exciting market. For too long, the parametric market has been on the periphery of the natural catastrophe market. We believe that now is the time for parametric solutions to truly challenge traditional reinsurance buying habits.”

Andrew Matson, Chief Executive Officer, Augment Risk, concluded, “We are committed to providing bespoke solutions that not only protect our clients but, more importantly, allow them to grow and maximize their enterprise value. For us, this collaboration is an important development as investors seek more accurate and specific modeled outputs.

“As one of only a few specialist brokers in this space, Augment Risk is delighted to have parametric solutions as a cornerstone of our execution strategy and this collaboration is further recognition of our absolute determination to build a differentiated and relevant reinsurance broker.”

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