Risk Modeling & Management

WRMS provides integrated risk management and regulatory services that help financial institutions, insurers, and corporates understand, quantify, and manage their risk associated with weather – earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and other weather events – and crop yields.

What Benefits Do We Offer

Exposure Assessment

Assess exposure to natural catastrophes – eg cyclones, typhoons, droughts, floods, earthquakes.

Insurance Cover Design

Create a solution to cover the income & asset loss due to these catastrophes.

Stop-Loss Protection

Create a custom-made weather index-based cover that offers stop-loss protection after a certain threshold has been exceeded in large claims in agricultural portfolios due to severe weather events.

Who Can Benefit

  • Businesses affected by severe NatCat events; suffering income loss – due to business interruption – or asset loss.

  • Businesses that seek loans from microfinance institutions and banks.

  • Insurers covering large agricultural portfolios.

Our Happy Clients

What Benefits Do We Offer

  • PML Analysis: Perform a yield- and / or weather-based PML (Probable Maximum Loss) analysis for insurers / reinsurers.
  • Risk Exposure Measurement: Measure risk exposure and determine the premium that needs to be charged to insure that risk.
  • Insurance Pricing: Help in pricing PMFBY and customised weather index based products.
  • Exposure Analysis: Help insurers and reinsurers to quickly & accurately analyze exposure concentrations across geographies.
  • Real-time Monitoring: Help insurers & reinsurers in real-time loss monitoring for weather- and yield-based portfolios.
  • Leverage our IoT sensors, GIS technology, and Artificial Neural Networks to remotely monitor weather & crop yield.
  • Analyze sown/damaged area for invoking prevented sowing.
  • Conduct surveys and / or crop-cutting experiments (CCEs) to monitor the yield-based claims leveraging our on-ground team.
  • Help insurers hedge their risk in the global reinsurance markets.
  • Help reinsurers price the existing reinsurance treaties.
  • Help reinsurers design and price customised weather index based stop loss covers.
  • Helps farmers and AgriBusinesses get custom-made insurance covers based on their risk profile & appetite.

Who Can Benefit

  • Global Insurers

  • Reinsurers

  • Large Farmers

  • Agricultural Businesses

Our Happy Clients

Our Success Stories

Business case

Due to insufficient availability of historical data availability, insurance companies were not able to design a suitable product to cover the risk of loss of its seed crop on account of cloudy conditions during pollination.

What we did

  • Designed a cover correlating rainfall of all weather stations within a 50 km radius of the cropped location to cover the risk of cloud cover.

Impact

  • Cover was successfully tested across 200 acres.

  • Helped insure seed crop during pollination under cloudy conditions.

Business case

Cholamandalam wanted to establish a robust Crop Insurance Product portfolio.

What we did

  • Helped to structure Weather & Yield Index based products.
  • Advised Cholamandalam to manage its Crop Insurance portfolio.
  • Helped to build necessary banking channels for sales and distribution.
  • Installed Weather Stations and conducted claim settling audits.

Impact

  • Cholamandalam generated an income of US $ 20m in FY 13 - 14.

  • The portfolio covered 20,000 farmers in Bihar and Rajasthan.

Business case

Large-scale implementation of subsidized weather insurance program.

What we did

  • Embarked to remove technological, policy level and reinsurance capacity bottlenecks.
  • Developed low cost weather stations, unmanned aerial vehicles, and automated yield measurement instruments to facilitate claim settlement.
  • Developed low cost weather stations, unmanned aerial vehicles, and automated yield measurement instruments to facilitate claim settlement.

Impact

  • Ministry consented in 2007 and granted support to Weather Insurance Products.

  • ~ 4,000 farmers for 10,000 acres in 2 districts of West Bengal were covered in Rabi 2009-’10.

Business case

WRMS was tasked to create a Comprehensive Agri Risk Management Services package that could make micro insurance commercially viable and sustainable for smallholder farmers.

What we did

  • Provided insurance, mobile based agro-advisory service, and irrigation controllers to the farmers.
  • Provided agri-advisory services & irrigation management systems to the farmers as preventive risk management measures.
  • Used insurance to manage catastrophic risks.
  • Facilitated bank loans to farmers.

Impact

  • Provided these services to over 20000 farmers across India.

  • Demonstrated that micro-insurance for small-scale farmers can be made commercially viable and sustainable by clubbing it with other risk management services.

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