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CRESTA: geographic zoning standard for the (Re)insurance industry ESRI UC 2008 Christina Schlenther Swiss Re GfK GeoMarketing Map Edition World

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CRESTA: geographic zoning standard for the (Re)insurance industry

ESRI UC 2008Christina SchlentherSwiss Re

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Swiss Re at a glance

• One of the world’s leading reinsurance companies

• Reinsurance: Insurance for insurance companies

• Around 70 offices in more than 30 countries

• Headquarter in Zurich, Switzerland

• Business functions:

• Client Markets

• Products

• Financial Services

• Risk Management

• GEOservices team is part of Swiss Re’s Products Division and within the Actuarial Services & Tools UnitESRI UC 2008

Christina SchlentherSwiss Re

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CRESTA at a glance

• Established by the insurance and reinsurance industry in1977 

• Administered by the CRESTA Secretariat (currently located at Swiss Re’s GEOservices team)

• Independent body for the technical management of natural hazard coverage 

• Broadly accepted zoning standard within the (re)insuranceindustry

• Goal: establish a uniform and global system to process and electronically transfer accumulation risk control data for natural hazards 

• Basis for this data exchange: CRESTAzones

• Preparation of maps using ArcMap and data from GfKGeoMarketing

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Catastrophe            Risk                   Evaluating and Standardizing       Target  Accumulations

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Why a zoning standard for the (re)insurance industry?

• Country‐specific zones for unified and detailed reporting of accumulation risk data.

• Spatial basis for the standardized exchange of insurance related information. 

• In countries where no geocoding is available these zones play a major role in geographic accumulation risk control.

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CRESTAzones – availability

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Development of the zoning standard

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Paper ManualMap of 1991

Web siteMap of 2002

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Visualization of the value distribution of portfolios based on CRESTAzones

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Example: Visualization of value distribution of a portfolio in Swiss Re’s Hazard Atlas

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CRESTAzone visualization in Swiss Re’s GEOportal

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The future of the zoning standard?

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• Focus on emerging markets

• Add zones for additional countries

• Provide more detailed zones

• Discussion to provide interactive mapping application

• Discussion to implement new web site

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