Capital allocation decision making in the face of extreme climate
February 24, 2020
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Speaker: Dr Ryan Springall
General Manager, Risk Frontiers
UNSW CCRC Seminar Room or zoom from:
Every day, insurance and reinsurance companies and capital markets make decisions on risk and how to allocate capital against the possibility of catastrophic losses. Far from being an abstract process, this is crucial in ensuring that companies are able to meet their liabilities to individuals, companies and governments that rely on financial support and indemnification to rebuild after disasters and embed resilience.
In this presentation, Dr Ryan Springall will articulate how the global financial system uses detailed catastrophe loss and climate models to price risk and allocate capital. Further, he will show how critical it is to have a robust and independent scientific community that is objective in the assessment of climate risks and how the work being done by researchers is having a real-time impact on the financial industry.
About Risk Frontiers and Ryan Springall
Risk Frontiers is a CLEX Partner Organisation. It is a company that specialises in the assessment and management of risk across the Asia-Pacific region. Their research and expertise cover major hazards affecting the region including floods, tropical cyclones, storms, bushfires, heatwaves, coastal erosion and earthquakes. They also work with communities to understand the human dimension of risk and policy implications.
Ryan is General Manager at Risk Frontiers and is responsible for delivering Risk Frontiers’ products and services to the (re)insurance, capital markets, banking and government sectors.
Prior to joining Risk Frontiers, Ryan was a Senior Reinsurance Broker and manager at Aon Tokyo, Japan, specialising in the trading of catastrophe risk. Ryan was formerly a senior analyst within the Australian Defence Intelligence Organisation working in Counter-Proliferation, a Senior Research Fellow in Geophysics at RMIT University and was appointed General Manager of Risk Frontiers in 2019. Ryan holds a PhD in Physics.