The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Illustrative: event footprints crossing a portfolio, losses rising and the exceedance-probability curve
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Finance and Economics
The department prices and pools catastrophe risk on real exposures: the plants and refineries of the Houston Ship Channel at their ground elevations are the portfolio of its loss-exceedance instrument, whose hazard and vulnerability inputs are declared design values until the published rows admit.
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Insurance, reinsurance and protection gaps, Actuarial science, Disaster risk finance
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