Investor Presentaiton
Role of insurers-climate risk is not just for corporates
Insurers have a unique role in the global effort to mitigate and adapt
to climate change:
✓ Providers of risk protection
✓ Major investors managing c.$30 trillion of assets
Are new approaches to risk protection require?
• History is no longer a reliable guide to pricing risk ... 1-in-100
event in the 1960s is now a 1-50 year event ... could be even
more frequent in the future
Insurers drop almost 350,000
California homeowners in high-
fire risk areas
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Potential for risk mispricing arises
Consider, a top Physical Risk ... the risk of flooding
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Impacts people's homes and businesses, with devastating impacts
on communities
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Not just emotional distress associated with damage and loss,
there are also financial costs
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• Underinsured to flood risk, flood events can cause losses
for homeowners
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Reduces ability to repay loans ... damaging the value of the
property
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Quality of the loan portfolios of banks/insurers
136,000 homes destroyed
15m total housing stock;
only 15% insured for flaoding
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