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# December 23, 2016: Beachwood Dipped in Platinum Scandal, All The Man-Made Quakes and Data Geeks Beat Hedge Fund Heroes
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/december-23-2016-beachwood-dipped-platinum-scandal-man-made-quakes-data-geeks-beat-hedge-fund-heroes/
- Published: 2016-12-23T07:36:11.000Z
- Updated: 2016-12-23T07:36:11.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Website Maps Vanuatu Climate Change Flooding Risk](http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38415796?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38415796?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A new web tool is allowing Pacific Islanders on Vanuatu to see how rising sea levels could affect their homes and businesses over the coming years.

### [Bhubaneswar Working on Model to Predict Coastal Inundation](http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-otherstates/IIT-Bhubaneswar-working-on-model-to-predict-coastal-inundation/article16930138.ece?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Hindu](http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-otherstates/IIT-Bhubaneswar-working-on-model-to-predict-coastal-inundation/article16930138.ece?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Research on coastal inundation assumes significance as intensity of tropical cyclones is predicted to rise even as the number of events would remain the same.

### [China Reports First Two Human Deaths From Bird Flu This Winter](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-birdflu-china-idUSKBN14C0CX?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-birdflu-china-idUSKBN14C0CX?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The Anhui cases bring the total number of people infected with the H7N9 virus in mainland China this month to at least seven.

### [It’s Not Just Fracking: New Database of Human-Induced Quakes](https://eos.org/articles/its-not-just-fracking-new-database-of-human-induced-quakes?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Eos](https://eos.org/articles/its-not-just-fracking-new-database-of-human-induced-quakes?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

In the largest compilation of anthropogenically induced earthquakes, causes range from building water reservoirs to mining.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [Beechwood Hit by Links to Firm in Fraud Case](http://mobile.royalgazette.com/re-insurance/article/20161222/beechwood-hit-by-links-to-firm-in-fraud-case&template=mobileart?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Royal Gazette](http://mobile.royalgazette.com/re-insurance/article/20161222/beechwood-hit-by-links-to-firm-in-fraud-case&template=mobileart?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A Bermudian reinsurance and wealth-management firm has been linked to a $1 billion fraud case in the US.

### [Data Scientists Making Millions Vie With Fund Managers Over Pay](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-22/data-scientists-making-millions-vie-with-fund-managers-over-pay?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-22/data-scientists-making-millions-vie-with-fund-managers-over-pay?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Portfolio managers at hedge funds have another thing to worry about: the $2 million data scientist.

### [The Airbnb of the Insurance Industry?](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-12-23/the-airbnb-of-the-insurance-industry?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg (video)](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-12-23/the-airbnb-of-the-insurance-industry?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Companies like Friendsurance see an opportunity to innovate an industry stuck in an old-fashioned status quo with high fees and low customer satisfaction.

### [Chinese Insurtech Giant Zhong An Turns Its Back on a US IPO](http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-insurtech-giant-zhong-an-turns-its-back-on-a-us-ipo-2016-12?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-insurtech-giant-zhong-an-turns-its-back-on-a-us-ipo-2016-12?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Insurance companies are at risk of losing a share of this valuable market to new entrants.