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Insured and uninsured losses related to natural catastrophes

Data source provider

1. Insurance Services Malaysia
2. Insurers and takaful operators

Use cases

Financial stability monitoring

Data group

Insurance sector's exposure to climate risk

Metric Type

Physical vulnerability

Methodology/ Standard / Classification/ Taxonomy / Reference

Insurance and takaful claims due to natural catastrophes

Unit (e.g. CO2)

Currency (e.g. MYR)

Dimension (e.g. Sector, Customer)

By Entity

Time horizon 

Backward-looking

Frequency

Not available

Time series

Not available

Accessibility

Confidential

Observation on data availability/gaps

ISM collects data on insured related natural catastrophes, but only applicable to flood under fire class. Munich RE, Swiss RE and BoE have reported this information but on a global basis and aggregated level.
Global for Munich RE only: 1.https://www.munichre.com/content/dam/munichre/mrwebsiteslaunches/natcat-2022/2021_Figures-of-the-year.pdf/_jcr_content/renditions/original./2021_Figures-of-the-year.pdf
2. https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/sigma-research/sigma-2021-01.html
3. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2017/the-banks-response-to-climate-change.pdf?la=en&hash=7DF676C781E5FAEE994C2A210A6B9EEE44879387

Data on "Number of Policies/Certificates", "Number of Claims", "Gross Claims Incurred" and "Net Claims Incurred" by climate change-related products, such as Flood under Motor class, Fire class and Other class are collected from insurers and takaful operators on a half-yearly basis by BNM via CCPT reporting.

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