Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting has licensed its loss calculation platform to both MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings and its group company InterRisk Research Institute & Consulting.
MS&AD Insurance Group is enhancing its risk quantification capability to identify accumulated risk and improve its risk management strategies.
Impact Forecasting’s Elements platform was chosen to house the models developed by InterRisk Research to better analyse non-modelled perils.
MS&AD Insurance Group selected the platform as it enables the firm to develop and run its catastrophe models more efficiently.
CEO of Aon Benfield Japan, Katsuya Tanimizu, commented: “As Japanese insurers develop increasingly sophisticated catastrophe models, we are seeing the trend to find a robust platform on which to run them.”
“Ever since Tohoku in 2011, regulatory and shareholder pressure means that these models need to evolve to incorporate new aspects such as governance systems and quality standards to better understand the potential risks.”
Yousuke Satoh, deputy general manager and head of natural catastrophe risk management team of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, added: “Quantifying non-modelled catastrophe risks from our point of view is becoming more crucial since current models have not yet covered all of these risks.”
“MS&AD Insurance Group is enhancing our capability to evaluate non-modelled risks, especially those which have high uncertainty, by using Elements to improve our sophisticated risk management strategies.”
