Sid Jha: Founder & CEO, Arbol: Bringing efficiency, transparency and access to climate risk transfer (208)

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

4.9 • 51 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Arbol provides parametric climate and weather risk management solutions for sectors such as agriculture, energy, maritime and hospitality. Siddhartha Jha, Arbol’s Founder, CEO and Chairman, joined Matthew Grant and Henry Gale to discuss how his experience of commodities trading helped inspire Arbol, how he built a company and a product and how it is addressing the needs of its customers with climate risk transfer. Talking points include: Insuring cotton gins against low yields Combining parametric and traditional property insurance in Florida Applying parametric triggers to reinsurance on an individual property level How Arbol’s parametric captive programme offers analytics and insurance to corporates The recent acquisition of Oasis Hub and how it will enrich Arbol’s dClimate network If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. Sign up to the InsTech newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to any InsTech podcast or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards the CII member CPD scheme. The Learning Objectives for this podcast are: List some of the ways in which commodities trading experience can benefit the insurance field Describe the key differences between parametric and traditional property insurance, and where these can be combined effectively Summarise what a parametric captive programme entails and its benefits for corporate organisations If your organisation is a member of InsTech and you would like to receive a quarterly summary of the CPD hours you have earned, visit the Episode 208 page of the InsTech website or email cpd@instech.co to let us know you have listened to this podcast. To help us measure the impact of the learning, we would be grateful if you would take a minute to complete a quick feedback survey.

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0:00.0	Hello, good morning, good evening, Matthew Grant here, and thank you for inviting us along for your run, drive, cycle or whatever else you get up to. Why still you are plugging us in. We don't really care. We're just
0:20.9	delighted to have you joining us. And if this is your first time, then welcome. Please do stick
0:25.3	around. If you like this, there are plenty more episodes to choose from. Well, we're spreading the
0:30.5	workload at Instate these days and Henry Gail is joining me this week as we interviewed
0:34.6	Siddhar, founder, chairman and CEO of Albaugh.
0:37.9	Of course, all our podcast guests are fascinating. We wouldn't invite them to join us
0:41.6	otherwise, but it's always fascinating, particularly to talk to founders who have both
0:45.5	built a company and built a product. It's really two jobs in one. We're back on
0:50.6	Paramountry today, but we touch on many other areas of interest and managing
0:54.2	risk and handling issues related to climate and access to more and better data.
1:00.2	Sit, like most of our guests, is a corporate member of Instac.
1:02.6	We've over 170 companies from insurance, analytics, technology, and a whole lot more.
1:07.4	We're working with to help reveal the best examples of innovation and new
1:11.3	ideas around risk and insurance. If you want to find out more, contact us. Hello at innsnet.com
1:16.6	or me, Matty Grant, by LinkedIn, find out what we offer and what it costs. And finally,
1:22.7	thanks to all of you that have been in contact to tell me you're listening. My favorite recent
1:26.4	message, though, is from the leader of a well-known market association who told me that he'd been in
1:31.0	verticomers, forced to listen to the podcast by his team and was surprised and delighted to finally
1:36.9	actually enjoyed it. So please keep spreading the word about what we're up to. And now,
1:41.5	over to Sid.
1:55.7	Sid, delighted to have you joining us today. We've been following our all very closely.
1:59.2	I think you are leading in many ways in what you're doing. We can talk a bit more about those in a minute. I've also brought Henry Gail along with me. You know Henry very well, but Henry is our
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