Risk Frontiers is an independent research centre sponsored by the insurance industry to aid better understanding and pricing of natural hazard risks in the Asia-Pacific region. It was founded in 1994 to service the specialized needs of its sponsors in the local insurance and international reinsurance markets.  Its aims were to:

• undertake risk assessment and research into natural hazards,
• develop databases of natural hazards and their impacts on communities and
  insured assets, and
• develop loss models to improve the pricing of natural hazard catastrophe risks.

These activities remain the core business of Risk Frontiers today, although it now undertakes studies on a much wider range of risk-related problems and for a client base that extends well beyond the insurance sector. It is the preferred provider of research to the NSW State Emergency Service and works with various government agencies and a number of corporate and utility organisations on risk-related issues. .  Read more.

RMS Opens RMS(one) to Third-Party Catastrophe Modelers

Clients Offered a More Comprehensive Suite of Catastrophe Modeling Capabilities, with ERN, JBA Risk Management, and Risk Frontiers to be First Partners Delivering Models on New RMS(one) Platform.
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Market-Based Mechanisms for Climate Change adaptation
(Assessing the potential for and limits to insurance and market based mechanisms for encouraging climate change adaptation.)

NCCARF Report

by John McAneney, Ryan Crompton, Delphine McAneney (Risk Frontiers)
Rade Musulin, George Walker (Aon Benfield Analytics Asia Pacific) and Roger Pielke Jr. (Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado).

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Risk Frontiers' latest Newsletter

This Issue:

• Atlantic Basin Seasonal Hurricane Forecasts
• January 2013 Tasmanian Bushfires

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Brian Ashe, Kevin Roche and Ryan Crompton have been awarded their PhDs.

Please click here to view an abstract of Brian's thesis "The Real Cost of Fire in Australia".

Please click here to view an abstract of Kevin's thesis "Managing the Cost of Natural Disasters in Australia"

Please click here to view an abstract of Ryan's thesis "Natural Hazards, Impacts and Climate change"

Multi-Peril Workbench Version 2 now available for commercial licensing.

Risk Frontiers' Multi-Peril Workbench combines all Risk Frontiers' Australian loss models in a single easy-to-use package. For more information contact riskfrontiers@mq.edu.au.