Infrastructure & Catastrophe Risk.
The infrastructure desk covers the physical assets that carry economic activity, power grids, ports, subsea cables, and the programs that build and finance them, read through whether they survive catastrophic stress: model failure, carrier retreat, parametric and ILS capital, and the public balance sheets absorbing what private capital will not.
Grids, ports and subsea cables and the programs that finance them, read through catastrophe: model failure, carrier retreat, ILS and parametric capital, public backstops.
PUBLISHED WHEN THE EVIDENCE SUPPORTS A JUDGMENT.
The federal count of billion-dollar disasters stops in 2024. Not because they stopped.
Billion-dollar weather and climate disaster events per year, 1980 to 2024. Three events in 1980, twenty-eight in 2023. NOAA retired the product in May 2025 with no updates beyond calendar year 2024, as a federal cost reduction. The live endpoint still answers and still serves the frozen file, so a system pointed at it will read stale numbers that look current. For anyone underwriting catastrophe risk, the reference series just became a historical document.
Every report this desk has published.
THE DESK CODE IS INF, AND EVERYTHING PUBLISHED FROM NOW ON CARRIES IT. NOTHING ALREADY PUBLISHED IS RENUMBERED.
| NO. | DATE | REPORT | STATUS |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIG-INS-26-001 | 2026-05-26 | When the Models Met RealityCatastrophe Repricing, Carrier Retreat, and the Public Balance Sheet | CURRENT |
| AIG-INS-26-002 | 2026-05-26 | The Uninsurable FrontierParametric, ILS, and the Capital-Markets Repartition of Catastrophe Risk | CURRENT |
| AIG-INS-26-003 | 2026-05-26 | The Ground Underneath the MapReference-Frame Modernization, Vertical Land Motion, and the Hidden Basis Risk in Insurance | CURRENT |
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