Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company

Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company
FormerlyCaribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility
Company typeSegregated Portfolio Company
Industryinsurance
FoundedJune 1, 2007 (2007-06-01) in Cayman Islands
Headquartersc/o Sagicor Insurance Managers
Harbour Place, 1st Floor
103 South Church Street
PO Box 1087
KY1-1102,
Grand Cayman
,
Cayman Islands
Area served
Caribbean and Central America
Key people
Timothy Antoine, Chairman of the Board
Isaac Anthony, Chief Executive Officer
ProductsParametric insurance for Tropical cyclone, Earthquake, Excess rainfall, Fisheries, and Electric utilities
Websitewww.ccrif.org

Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SPC) is an insurance company headquartered in the Cayman Islands.[1] The sixteen original member-countries of CCRIF included participants in CARICOM, and the membership of the Board of Directors is selected by CARICOM and by the Caribbean Development Bank.[2]

Founded in 2007,[3] CCRIF is the first multi-country risk pool in the world, and was the first insurance instrument to successfully develop parametric policies backed by both traditional and capital markets.[4] These parametric policies release funds based upon factors of a calamity such as rainfall or wind speed, which can speed up the payout of policies rather than after damages are assessed. Unused funds are kept as reserves for the CCRIF. The fund can also draw upon $140 million in funds underwritten by reinsurance.[5]

Other regions have since setup similar government disaster instance including in the African Union and the Pacific Islands Forum.[5]

  1. ^ "CCRIF Strategic Plan 2015-2018". CCRIF SPC. 2015-06-01. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
  2. ^ "Implementation Completion and Results Report". World Bank. 2012-07-12. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
  3. ^ "Munich Re Leads Caribbean Nat Cat Risk Syndicate". Insurance Journal. 2007-06-01. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
  4. ^ "Implementation Completion and Results Report". World Bank. 2012-07-12. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
  5. ^ a b "The Caribbean's pioneering form of disaster insurance". The Economist. Retrieved 2017-09-26.

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