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# April 20, 2016: Flood Re's Missed Opportunity, Cat Bonds Up and Gallant Bounced
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/april-20-2016-flood-res-missed-opportunity-cat-bonds-gallant-bounced/
- Published: 2016-04-20T07:43:43.000Z
- Updated: 2016-04-20T07:43:43.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Creating a Map to Navigate the Post-Earthquake Landscape in Ecuador](http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/creating-a-map-to-navigate-the-post-earthquake-landscape-in-ecuador?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/creating-a-map-to-navigate-the-post-earthquake-landscape-in-ecuador?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

OpenStreetMap helped make maps of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, of Japan in 2011, and of Nepal last year.

### [Life Expectancy for White Americans Drops Slightly; Analysts Cite Drug Overdoses](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/health/life-expectancy-decline-mortality.html?%5Fr=0&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/health/life-expectancy-decline-mortality.html?%5Fr=0&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

“The increase in death in \[one\] segment of the population was great enough to affect life expectancy at birth for the whole group.”

### [New Flood Forecasting System May Help Warn Houston The Next Time](http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2016/04/19/146557/new-flood-forecasting-system-may-help-warn-houston-the-next-time/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Houston Public Media](http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2016/04/19/146557/new-flood-forecasting-system-may-help-warn-houston-the-next-time/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Knowing which creeks and bayous will flood and how quickly is hard to predict. But that could change dramatically by later this summer.

### [Scientists Describe New Research Model to Enhance Zika Virus Research](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160419144743.htm?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Science Daily](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160419144743.htm?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

One of the first mouse models has been developed for the study of the Zika virus.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

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### [Buffett’s Favored Analyst Cut by Nomura Before Omaha Meeting](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-19/buffett-s-favored-analyst-cut-by-nomura-before-berkshire-meeting?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-19/buffett-s-favored-analyst-cut-by-nomura-before-berkshire-meeting?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Nomura Holdings Inc. cut insurance analyst Cliff Gallant weeks before he was scheduled to ask Warren Buffett questions at Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s annual meeting

### [Catastrophe Bond Issuance Hits Record $2 Bln in Q1 – Report](http://www.reuters.com/article/insurance-bonds-catastrophe-idUSL5N17N1PD?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/insurance-bonds-catastrophe-idUSL5N17N1PD?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Catastrophe bond issuance rose 35 percent in the first quarter.

### [Flood Re: a Missed Opportunity for Sustainable Flood Risk Management?](http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/news/flood-re-a-missed-opportunity-for-sustainable-flood-risk-management/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [London School of Economics](http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/news/flood-re-a-missed-opportunity-for-sustainable-flood-risk-management/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Under the current proposal, Flood Re is ‘invisible’ to the households it covers.

### [China’s Fosun Mulls IPO For Specialty Insurer Ironshore](http://www.forbes.com/sites/janeho/2016/04/19/chinas-fosun-mulls-ipo-for-specialty-insurer-ironshore/?ref=riskmarketnews.com#3da44b65cfa5)

#### [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/janeho/2016/04/19/chinas-fosun-mulls-ipo-for-specialty-insurer-ironshore/?ref=riskmarketnews.com#3da44b65cfa5)

No final decision has been made on whether, when, or where to proceed with the possible IPO, according to a Fosun filing in March.