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Foresight Country Risk

Enhance intelligence-led underwriting decisions

What if you could access all of the intelligence you need on the specific perils you cover?

Get streamed intelligence, dynamic forecasts, advanced mapping, and location-specific risk ratings on war, terrorism, civil unrest and property risk. Quickly find and filter risk events and intelligence, and set up alerts based on insurable perils and exposures. Designed for insurance underwriters, this forward-looking workflow solution enables users to:
  • Secure premium income with intelligence-led risk selection and technical pricing
  • Generate new revenue streams with confident entry into new markets
  • Support reinsurance decisions

Content & Delivery Schedule

Content

Political Risk

Civil Unrest

Terrorism

War

Update Frequency

Incident/Indicator Events

Nearly 780,000 raw intelligence signals

Daily (2,000/week)

Insight Briefs

Over 19,000 assessments on emerging risks

 

 

 

 

Daily (200/month)

Forecast Briefs Over 1,150 peril- or asset-specific risk forecasts

 

 

 

 

3-month review cycle + significant outlook change (80+/week)

Country Summary Risk outlook for 196 countries

 

 

 

 

3-month review cycle + significant outlook change

Risk Index One-year risk rating for 4 sub-sovereign perils for 196 countries

 

 

 

 

3-month review cycle + significant outlook change

Location-Specific Risk Rating One-year risk score for every 500m2 globally for overall political violence, war, terrorism, and civil unrest risk

 

 

 

 

Weekly

Workflow Tools

Home Page
Customize your home page to create your own risk dashboard with current priorities

Custom Alerts
Create up to ten custom alerts based on your own intelligence criteria (e.g. risk type, relevance, keywords, location)

Online Mapping
Visualize risk with dynamic war, terrorism, civil unrest and overall political violence risk mapping for every point on the planet and integrate geocoded incident and indicator events

Advanced Search
Search online database of 780, 000 incident and indicator events, 19, 000 insight briefs and 1, 150 forecast briefs using location, risk type, date and relevance filters

Report Builder
Create and communicate reports with risk content in word, PDF or email format

Member Privileges

Analyst Access
On-demand access to the Country Risk Analysis and Forecasting team

Special Reports & Major Incident Response Assessments
Country Risk Quarterly, topical reports and incident evaluations

Bulletins and Newsletters
Daily and weekly intelligence reports by country, industry, risk and asset type (opt-in)

Country Risk Webcasts
Webcasts on key events and trends, with webcasts with leading expert Q&A

IHS Markit Forum
Complimentary passes to the premier IHS Markit conference series

Systematized Forecasting Methodology

Foresight Political Risk builds on a systemized methodology to make precise forecasts.

Dedicated Intelligence Infrastructure

Our 60-person forecasting team leverages dedicated intelligence collection against indicators of change to drive forecasts on commercially relevant outcomes for 196 countries.

Industry Success Stories

Defense Manufacturer Secures New Opportunities in New Markets

In this brief video, Paul Burton – Director of Research & Analysis for IHS Markit Defence Industry and Budgets – describes how a defense manufacturer overcame austere market conditions to unlock opportunities in emerging markets. Learn how the company used IHS Markit proprietary data and market forecasts, and worked with IHS Markit analysts, to secure a sale in a region where it had never before conducted business.

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XL Catlin “Finds the Good Risks in Difficult Places” and Cuts Costs 20% by Consolidating Research to One Source

A global insurance industry leader brought efficiency to risk selection by standardizing with one information provider across all underwriting decisions. This firm thereby reduced research costs by 20%, established a ‘center of excellence’ internally and fueled growth by gaining insights to write risk in areas where others held back.

Learn more about our customer’s success

L3 WESCAM leverages world-class media solutions to reach aerospace and defense decision makers

L3 WESCAM designs and manufactures industry-leading multi-spectral and multi-sensor EO IR imaging and targeting sensor systems. In this video, L3 Wescam Vice President, Government Sales and Business Development, Paul Jennison, explains what it is about media solutions from Jane’s by IHS Markit that he especially values and how Jane’s helps him to reach key decision makers.

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Industry Leaders Ride the "Third Wave" of Unified Information Access for Engineers

Imagine giving your engineers back 15 percent of their time to solve problems and innovate. In this video, IHS Markit Product Design VP Chad Hawkinson discusses how leading-edge companies in multiple industry sectors are harnessing the power of unified information access for their engineers to drive innovation, resolve issues and deliver products to market ahead of the competition.

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