Risk Frontiers (formerly the Natural Hazards Research Centre) is regarded as a world leader in quantitative natural hazards risk assessment and risk management. Risk Frontiers, based at Sydney's Macquarie University, is a not-for-profit research organization sponsored by the Australian insurance community. For ten years, it has provided insurers, who are under ever-increasing pressure to minimise risks and maximise returns, with sophisticated research-based solutions. Other applications include emergency management, land use planning and floodplain management. As well as Australia, these tools are currently being used in Europe, North America and Asia .

In short, Risk Frontiers:

• provides a focussed, independent and international research capability
• helps insurers and reinsurers better understand and price natural hazard risks in the Australasian and Asia-Pacific environment
• provides probabilistic Catastrophe Models
• provides Relative Risk Ratings on specific and combined perils, and
• undertakes contract research.

Key areas of expertise in respect of natural hazards include:

• flood risk modelling and home and contents vulnerability
• earthquake loss modelling
• bushfire risk ratings
• volcanic risk assessment
• hail storm loss modelling
• landslide risk assessment
• multi-hazard risk assessment and
• portfolio engineering

Key generic skills include:

• Stochastic modelling
• Geology/Geomorphology
• Physics & Mathematics
• Remote Sensing & Image Processing
• Financial Modelling
• Seismic Engineering
• Risk-informed decision-making
• Meteorology
• Agronomy

A strategic worldwide resource of research associates in other specialist areas concerning natural hazards.