How hurricanes became a hot investment
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30 min
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What It Covers
Jamaica uses catastrophe bonds to bet against hurricanes, allowing investors to profit from disaster-free periods while funding reconstruction when major storms strike the Caribbean nation.
Notable Moment
Karen Clark, seven months pregnant, carried a 35-pound portable computer to Lloyd's of London in the 1980s to demonstrate hurricane modeling to skeptical British underwriters.
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