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# March 17, 2015: First Tornado Forecast and Disasters Spoiling Development Gains
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/march-17-2015-first-tornado-forecast-and-disasters-spoiling-development-gains/
- Published: 2015-03-17T06:31:59.000Z
- Updated: 2015-03-17T06:33:45.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Experimental Forecast Projects Tornado Season](http://www.climatecentral.org/news/experimental-forecast-projects-tornado-season-18780?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Climate Central](http://www.climatecentral.org/news/experimental-forecast-projects-tornado-season-18780?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

An experimental forecast team has put together the first seasonal outlook for tornadoes in the U.S.

### [Cyclone Nathan to Have ‘Significant Impact’](http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/cyclone-nathan-to-have-significant-impact/story-e6frg6nf-1227266909932?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Australian](http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/cyclone-nathan-to-have-significant-impact/story-e6frg6nf-1227266909932?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Nathan is set to have a major impact as a category three system, or higher, when it hits far north Queensland, forecasters expect.

### [New Study Explains Surge of Oklahoma Earthquakes, Predicts Major Ones](http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepage1/new-study-explains-surge-of-oklahoma-earthquakes-predicts-major-ones/article%5F1f76113c-233c-5cb3-b298-da1347ee9a18.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Tulsa World](http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepage1/new-study-explains-surge-of-oklahoma-earthquakes-predicts-major-ones/article%5F1f76113c-233c-5cb3-b298-da1347ee9a18.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Recently released research on earthquakes in Oklahoma explains why injection wells may cause quakes here and warns of the possibility for big ones.

### [Q&A With Steve Sparks: Two Thirds of World’s Volcanic Risk is In Indonesia](http://roadtoparis.info/2015/03/17/qa-with-steve-sparks-two-thirds-of-worlds-volcanic-risk-is-in-indonesia/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Road to Paris](http://roadtoparis.info/2015/03/17/qa-with-steve-sparks-two-thirds-of-worlds-volcanic-risk-is-in-indonesia/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Through smart financial instruments, countries can be encouraged to build resilience to disaster.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [Start Managing Disaster Threat or Risk Development Gains: Experts](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/16/us-disaster-risk-aid-idUSKBN0MC1M520150316?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/16/us-disaster-risk-aid-idUSKBN0MC1M520150316?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The Sendai summit is due to adopt a new global plan to reduce the risks of disasters – and protecting development investments across the board is a key aim.

### [Heterogeneous Expectations and Speculative Behavior in Insurance-Linked Securities](http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ddns/2015/574091/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society](http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ddns/2015/574091/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A research paper analyzes the impact factors on the issuance of an insurance-linked security, and gives an ILS pricing formula and the conditions of existence and stability of the issue price.

### [Big, Leveraged Hedge Funds Could Be ‘Systemically Important,’ Regulators Say](http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2015/03/16/big-leveraged-hedge-funds-could-be-systemically-important-regulators-say/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Barron’s](http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2015/03/16/big-leveraged-hedge-funds-could-be-systemically-important-regulators-say/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Global financial regulators may cast a larger dragnet for classifying which money managers can be deemed “too big to fail.”

### [Insurance Sector Hopes for $9.5 Billion in Five Years](http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Insurance-sector-hopes-for-9.5-billion-in-five-years?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Nikkei Asian Review](http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Insurance-sector-hopes-for-9.5-billion-in-five-years?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The Indian parliament has amended an insurance law pending since 2008 that will raise the foreign investment cap from 26% to 49%.