How physical risk challenges insurer investments
Insurance Asset Risk Editor Vincent Huck looks at the awkward truth behind physical risk and the insurance industry’s investment strategies.
The risk of a 4 degree rise in temperatures over a century and its impact on the insurance industry has been well debated and documented for at least 10 years.
As far back as 2015, French giant insurer AXA stated that a 4 degree rise in temperatures from pre-industrial levels would render the world un-insurable. AXA has repeated that message year after year as it updated and strengthened its climate policy.
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