February 8, 2025
The spreads since inception of RepuSPX, RepuVAR, and RepuVART (Total returns) are 330.46%, 201.48% and 521.11% greater that returns of the S&P500, respectively.
Innovation
January 25, 2025
The reputation premium-seeking RepuSPX is out-performing the S&P500 Index by 333.42%
January 23, 2025
Steel City Re is the world’s only provider of parametric reputation insurance offerings, leveraging a reputational value index that delivers more stable and higher returns for reinsurers and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors, according to co-founder and CEO Nir Kossovsky. […] “So, sustained loss ratios: stable returns, higher returns, and IP-protected extended returns over years,” explained Kossovsky.
January 14, 2025
![Moral hazard has stalled progress in reputation risk insurance, but parametric solutions could help insurers meet growing demand and seize new opportunities. [...] The global reputation crisis can help carriers appreciate how parametric technology can accelerate solutions for emerging risks.](https://steelcityre.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Parametric-technology-The-key-to-unlocking-reputation-risk-insurance-intelligent-insurer.jpg)
Moral hazard has stalled progress in reputation risk insurance, but parametric solutions could help insurers meet growing demand and seize new opportunities. […] The global reputation crisis can help carriers appreciate how parametric technology can accelerate solutions for emerging risks.
October 28, 2024
An industry that is using parametric technology to insure losses from natural disasters caused by wrathful deities can now also provide meaningful insurance for losses from reputation disasters caused by emotional mortals. The 4-M parametric framework of metric, model, monitor and market for natural earthquakes disclosed at the 2023 Hawaii Captives Insurance Conference makes parametric insurance for metaphorical earthquakes easy to back, underwrite, broker and bind.
September 9, 2024
Affirming in practice what it disclosed in January, Blackrock “engaged 2,683 times on strategy, purpose and financial resilience-related themes with 2,014 companies — more than any of its other engagement priorities — this proxy year. Given this information, board directors may want to prioritize financial resilience in their own work and in engagement with index funds.” Steel City Re can provide metrics and tools to support innovative strategies for strengthening financial resilience.
August 31, 2024
32.9% of companies, including American Airlines and US Bancorp, have compensation clawback policies for reputation harm.
August 19, 2024
Investors are not good at predicting the net impact of reputation risk. They tend to over or underestimate the net impact on future cash flows on the basis of sentiment and noise rather than on indicators of stakeholder disaffection and behavioral change such as those integral to Steel City Re’s premier reputation risk prediction tool, its Resilience Monitor.
June 8, 2024
Captives are a solution to the lack of innovation. Martin South, president and chief executive officer, Marsh, was being interview by Penny Randall Seach, group chief underwriting officer, Zurich Insurance Company in a Global CEO fireside discussion at AIRMIC called ‘Global forces driving change: a future outlook’ Because the industry is not offering products that address clients’s needs as risks evolve, “some $25 billion of Marsh clients’ premium is now being retained using this form of risk transfer.“ In other news, insurer AXA is reorganizing US operations. Layoffs are expected. Meanwhile, Steel City Re has on offer a remarkably innovative original outcome-based solution to the most complex risk of all. It is a solution insureds have wanted since 2005, and it is backed today by Tokio Marine Kiln.
March 1, 2024
Reputation risk management is an efficient strategy for interconnected risk. “Risk interconnectivity — the interdependence of various risks, illustrating how one risk can affect or amplify others across systems — is of growing concern to global risk managers. […] Andrew Chung, litigation, arbitration and investigations partner at Linklaters, said the key enterprise risks that are top of mind for clients today are interconnected. He explained: “We are seeing how risks across financial crime, cyber, ESG and energy transition, digital transformation and AI, and geopolitics including supply chain and sanctions all have common elements and data, so now require an enterprise-wide and holistic lens more than ever, to properly manage the risks.”