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# August 23, 2016: Hedge Funds Make Reinsurers Riskier, Time to Sell Your Beach House and a New Tornado Alley
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/august-23-2016-hedge-funds-make-reinsurers-riskier-time-sell-beach-house-new-tornado-alley/
- Published: 2016-08-23T06:56:39.000Z
- Updated: 2016-08-23T06:56:39.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Spatial Redistribution of U.S. Tornado Activity between 1954 and 2013](http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0342.1?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology](http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0342.1?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Climate change could be driving U.S. tornadoes southeast.

### [A New Strategy for Climate Change? Retreat ](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-22/nj-s-blue-acres-program-a-new-strategy-for-climate-change?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg View](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-22/nj-s-blue-acres-program-a-new-strategy-for-climate-change?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Coastal storms will eventually push residents inland and change the dynamics of the U.S. population.

### [The Heart of Hurricane Season Has Arrived, and We’re Monitoring Three Systems](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/08/22/the-heart-of-hurricane-season-has-arrived-and-were-monitoring-three-systems/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/08/22/the-heart-of-hurricane-season-has-arrived-and-were-monitoring-three-systems/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Of these three systems, one has some potential to affect the U.S. coast — though it’s not a sure thing.

### [Researchers Find Complex Relationship Between Major Earthquake Faulting and Mountain Building in the Himalaya](http://phys.org/news/2016-08-complex-relationship-major-earthquake-faulting.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Phys.org](http://phys.org/news/2016-08-complex-relationship-major-earthquake-faulting.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The Gorkha earthquake worked against long-term mountain building by uplifting the foothills and down-dropping the mountains.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [Hedge Fund Incursion Weakens Reinsurers’ Catastrophe Defenses](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-23/hedge-fund-incursion-weakens-reinsurers-catastrophe-defenses?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-23/hedge-fund-incursion-weakens-reinsurers-catastrophe-defenses?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

It won’t take another Hurricane Katrina for reinsurers to face losses from covering the cost of storms and earthquakes.

### [Mexican Development Bank to Issue First Local Green Bonds](http://www.reuters.com/article/mexico-bonds-green-idUSL1N1B31M8?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/mexico-bonds-green-idUSL1N1B31M8?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Green bonds have had a slow start in Latin America, where markets are highly illiquid and investors tend to be more cautious.

### [The Latest: Flood Damage at Least $110M to Louisiana Ag](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-disaster-recovery-centers-opening-louisiana-41566099?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [AP](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-disaster-recovery-centers-opening-louisiana-41566099?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The figure is likely to grow.

### [Most of Louisiana’s Flood Victims Lack Insurance](http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2016/08/uncovered?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2016/08/uncovered?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The real question facing Louisiana is what the federal government is going to do for Louisiana this time.