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    Lockton Natural Catastrophe Analytics team offers clients a full suite of services, including retail modelling, catastrophe modelling (including RMS, AIR and other bespoke models), reinsurance pricing & optimisation, actuarial services, market research and benchmarking, capital modelling and risk management support. In unison with the broking team, Lockton Natural Catastrophe Analytics enables clients to fully consider all risk transfer transactions' capital, financial, regulatory and rating agency implications.

    Expertise

    The Lockton Natural Catastrophe Analytic team has significant expertise that spans the full risk, exposure and capital management spectrum, enabling us to identify the optimal solution to meet our clients’ requirements. This expertise covers the areas of:

    • Catastrophe

      • Catastrophe modelling

      • Hazard mapping

      • Realistic Disaster Scenario analysis

    • Corporate

      • Insurance optimisation

      • Risk tolerance setting

      • Realistic Disaster Scenario analysis

      • Financial institution operational risk analysis

    • Insurance

      • Rating agency advisory

      • Insurance pricing

      • Market entry

    • Reinsurance

      • Reinsurance pricing

      • Reinsurance structuring optimisation

      • Market research/benchmarking

    • Specialty Modelling

      • Terrorism

      • Cyber

      • Agriculture

      • Pandemics

    • Alternative Risk Transfer

      • Retrospective / prospective structured financing solutions

      • Bespoke Parametric solutions

      • Protected investment returns

    • Captives

      • Optimisation

      • Total cost of risk transfer

      • Premium cost allocation

    • Actuarial & Regulatory

      • Actuarial due diligence

      • Capital modelling

      • Risk management analysis / support

    Key Contacts

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    Claire Taylor

    Senior Catastrophe Risk Analyst
    claire.taylor@lockton.com
    +61 478 998 286

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