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We consider it an important part of our professional service to conduct research into the risks faced by insurers and reinsurers. As a means of sharing our expertise, we regulary present the findings of our research into risk, associated loss trends, and market and pricing impacts.

This information is contained in our technical reports, which you can download as PDF documents or order online as printed copies.


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Best Estimate Assumptions for Biometric Risk
The introduction of “fair value” into reporting environments, namely MCEV, IFRS and Solvency II, has made Best Estimate assumptions a must-have for life insurance companies. Based on multiple market-years of experience, this report is a first, practical documentation of the process of establishing Best Estimate assumptions. It provides a comprehensive walk through the distinct development stages and their essential considerations. It also includes numerous supporting examples, including two European market case studies.
Life September 2011
The CatFocus® Tropical Cyclone Model: Advanced Risk Analysis and Validation
Tropical cyclones over the last decade have challenged pre-existing views of their potential damage impact and loss magnitude. The CatFocus® tropical cyclone model incorporates all the latest event data and advances in understanding, analyzing this risk in a sophisticated, consistent and verifiable way. Download for a description of this model, with a focus on “internal consistency” and “validation”; features that help to ensure that modeled events are realistic and in line with observation.
 Catastrophe October 2010
El Modelo de Terremoto CatFocus®: Análisis de Riesgo de Alta Calidad
Although the return periods of the largest events are high, the devastating consequences of earthquakes make reliable risk evaluation critical. This report describes PartnerRe’s proprietary earthquake model: a state-of-the-art and fully up-to-date risk evaluation and pricing tool that is able to process all industry-standard data formats. The model incorporates a number of differentiating innovations and advanced approaches, in particular relating to the development of empirical vulnerability curves.

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 Catastrophe July 2010
The CatFocus® Earthquake Model: High-Quality Risk Analysis
Although the return periods of the largest events are high, the devastating consequences of earthquakes make reliable risk evaluation critical. This report describes PartnerRe’s proprietary earthquake model: a state-of-the-art and fully up-to-date risk evaluation and pricing tool that is able to process all industry-standard data formats. The model incorporates a number of differentiating innovations and advanced approaches, in particular relating to the development of empirical vulnerability curves.
 Catastrophe April 2010
Hazard and Risk Science Review 2009
The Review, co-sponsored by PartnerRe and AonBenfield, and written by academics at the Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre, is focused on four major natural hazard areas – atmospheric, geological, hydrological and climate change and provides a link between the science and insurance worlds, with an overview of new natural hazards research that has been published over the last 12 months.
 Catastrophe September 2009


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