
The Risky Science Podcast features conversations with scientists, insurers, investors, portfolio managers, and others about the evolving science of predicting and modeling risk across both natural and man-made perils.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 52 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | InvestingBusinessScience | |||

Private credit didn't just find a new source of capital—it may have changed the role of life insurance itself. Andrew Granato and Pranjal Yadav explain why insurance regulation, guaranty funds and opaque private assets could become increasingly impor... more
For years, the biggest competitive battles in insurance have been between insurers. Underwriting. Pricing. Capital management.
But artificial intelligence may be changing the rules.
What if the next major competitor doesn't come from another insura... more
Listen to the full replay of the latest Risky Science Live "Private Capital, Public Flood: Risky Science Live". The panel examines what a larger private flood market actually requires: the modeling sophistication to price the peril credibly, and the ... more
Jane Kim just finished first in the race to become California's next insurance commissioner. She's a former San Francisco supervisor and worked for Bernie Sanders. And where Allen wants to draw private capital back into the market, Kim wants to build... more
Weather derivatives have struggled with liquidity for 25 years. Jim Huang thinks prediction markets can finally fix that — but only if the contracts are built around events people actually watch.
In this return conversation with Risk Market News, th... more
In this week’s episode we are digging into California's insurance market — and specifically, into the fight over who actually owns wildfire risk. Is it the insurers pulling back from high-risk areas? The utilities whose equipment sparks some of these... more
This week we focus on the tragic catastrophe in Venezuela, where powerful earthquakes tore along the San Sebastián fault and devastated Caracas. As a result, buildings collapsed, the airport shut down, and the death toll climbed.
And a fragile countr... more
A year ago, I sat down with Carmi Margalit, Managing Director and the Life Insurance Sector Lead at Standard & Poor’s Annual Insurance Conference to talk about private credit on insurance balance sheets . So when I caught up with him again this year,... more
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The conversations center on the evolving science of predicting and pricing risk across natural and human-made perils, with a strong emphasis on how data, models, and markets intersect finance, insurance, and policy. Across episodes, topics span from private credit, liquidity, and asset allocation for insurers, to catastrophe modeling and risk transfer through ILS and prediction markets; to the use of Bayesian methods, uncertainty quantification, and AI in epidemic, wildfire, and climate-risk contexts. A notable thread is the push for more transparent, interoperable models, real-time data, and scenario-based thinking to price tail risks, improve underwriting, and inform policy. What stands out is the blend of academic rigor, industry pragmat... more
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2. Pranjal Dahl
3. Professor Chan
4. Jane Kim
5. Ben Allen
6. Ziggy Lubkowski
7. Carmi Margalit
8. Karen Clark
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