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# February 16, 2016: Catastrophe Model as Hedge Fund, Living Less In Europe and AIG Cuts Out Dealmaker
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/february-16-2016-quake-model-as-hedge-fund-living-less-in-europe-and-aig-cuts-out-dealmaker/
- Published: 2016-02-16T08:55:42.000Z
- Updated: 2016-02-16T08:55:42.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Breaking the Strongest Link Triggered Big Baja Earthquake](http://phys.org/news/2016-02-strongest-link-triggered-big-baja.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Phys.org](http://phys.org/news/2016-02-strongest-link-triggered-big-baja.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A spate of major earthquakes on small faults could overturn traditional views about how earthquakes start.

### [Builders Finding Ways to Make Homes Stand Up to Mother Nature’s Fiercest Outbursts](http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/style/home-design/article/Builders-finding-ways-to-make-homes-stand-up-to-6832288.php?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Houston Chronicle ](http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/style/home-design/article/Builders-finding-ways-to-make-homes-stand-up-to-6832288.php?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A movement in the home-building industry to adapt to risks of climate change is gaining momentum.

### [A New Earthquake-Sensing App Just Hit the Google Play Store](http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/12/10980222/myshake-earthquake-sensing-android-app?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Verge](http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/12/10980222/myshake-earthquake-sensing-android-app?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Your phone can be part of a distributed seismograph

### [Where Do People Live Longer and Shorter Lives?](http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2016/01/06/jech-2015-206827.short?g=w%5Fjech%5Fahead%5Ftab&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (sub may be required)](http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2016/01/06/jech-2015-206827.short?g=w%5Fjech%5Fahead%5Ftab&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

An ecological study of old-age survival across 4404 small areas from 18 European countries.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [Bill Miller’s a Hedge-Fund Guy Now With a Funky Model to Try Out](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-11/bill-miller-s-a-hedge-fund-guy-now-with-a-funky-model-to-try-out?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-11/bill-miller-s-a-hedge-fund-guy-now-with-a-funky-model-to-try-out?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Bill Miller is starting a hedge fund that will make bets based in part on a computer model designed to predict natural disasters.

### [Only Two Applicants Clear Insurance Commissioner Pre-Screening](http://floridapolitics.com/archives/201797-201797?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Florida Politics](http://floridapolitics.com/archives/201797-201797?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Kirk Schmidt, president and CFO of Cornerstone National and Jeffrey Bragg, head of its Terrorism Risk Insurance Program, answered “yes” to the state’s two pre-screening qualifying questions as of Monday.

### [Can Health Care Providers Afford to Be Ready for Disaster?](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/sunday-review/can-health-care-providers-afford-to-be-ready-for-disaster.html?%5Fr=1&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/sunday-review/can-health-care-providers-afford-to-be-ready-for-disaster.html?%5Fr=1&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Industry experts are awaiting release of a federal rule that would make emergency preparedness a condition for a wide range of health care institutions to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

### [AIG Dealmaker Schreiber Exits With Maag as Insurer Shrinks](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-16/aig-strategy-head-schreiber-exits-with-maag-in-executive-shakeup?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-16/aig-strategy-head-schreiber-exits-with-maag-in-executive-shakeup?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Schreiber, who shepherded multibillion-dollar deals that expanded the company and then shrank it after the 2008 credit crisis, is departing as the insurer overhauls management.