Climate change leads to a larger protection gap of which 96% is in the developing world*
Twelve Capital held a workshop with high calibre market players to discuss how natural catastrophe risks can be transferred to financial markets for disaster relief in emerging markets.
Against the backdrop of Impact Investing some highlights covered were:
– Development of parametric Cat Bonds market in recent years
– Investors’ expectations and requirements:
– Impact investing criteria
– Risk/return profile
– Parametric risk transfers in the Caribbean
– The role of Multinational Organisations
– Market assessment of parametric risk transfer for disaster relief – Parametric Insurance
– Risk transfer for disaster relief in Africa
*Source: Lloyd’s
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