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Insurance and reinsurance analysis, bringing together catastrophe exposure, portfolio performance, and technical pricing to inform underwriting, risk transfer, and capital decisions.
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Regional insight.
Global perspective.
Connecting North American analytical expertise, Asian market perspectives, and the broader insurance and reinsurance landscape.
WHAT WE DO
Insight, analytics, and risk transfer.
Molto RE connects quantitative analysis, market intelligence, and clear presentation to support decisions across insurance, reinsurance, and capital markets. Our three markets of interest are traditional, parametric, and specialty risk.
Parametric
Solutions built around measurable events and predefined triggers, with a focus on natural catastrophe, weather, and agricultural risk, trigger design, and basis risk analysis.
Specialty
Analysis of complex and emerging exposures, including how financial markets and political developments shape specialized insurance needs and risk transfer opportunities.
MARKETS & STRATEGIC POSITIONING
A connected view of risk and capital.
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DOMESTIC · MARKETS OF EXPERTISE
Molto RE’s Domestic Markets of Expertise
Capital markets, insurance, reinsurance, parametric insurance, and agriculture expertise across key U.S. markets, Bermuda, and the Cayman Islands.
Minneapolis, MN
Domestic market of expertise
REGIONAL BUSINESS CONTEXT
Upper Midwest production, underwriting, and agricultural capital
1. Agriculture business
$28.48BMinnesota agricultural sales · 2022
Corn, soybeans, hogs, dairy, and poultry link farm production with grain handling, food processing, and agricultural finance. The state reported 65,531 farms.
USDA · 2022 Census of Agriculture2. Agricultural insurance
$980.7MMinnesota total crop premium · 2025
Reported insured liability: $11.32B. Leading categories by premium: Corn, Soybeans, Sugar Beets. These figures describe the state’s insured crop exposure, not premium written in the destination city.
USDA RMA · Summary of Business3. Reinsurance
Risk & capitalAgricultural risk-transfer perspective
Corn and soybean portfolios make regional yield and price correlation central to crop reinsurance. Geographic diversification, retained risk, and capital allocation are useful topics for underwriting discussions.
USDA RMA · Reinsurance framework4. Economic output
$193.62BHennepin County, MN · GDP, 2024
Current-dollar GDP across all industries in the stated area. This measures local economic scale; it is not agricultural sales or the full metropolitan economy.
BEA · County GDP, CAGDP1 line 3Sources, geography & methodology
Agricultural sales are statewide 2022 Census market value of products sold. Crop premium and liability are statewide 2025 RMA coverage-table totals from the Molto data snapshot queried November 1, 2026; they exclude private crop-hail business and are not a measure of all agricultural insurance. Figures can be revised. GDP is 2024 current-dollar county GDP; New York City sums its five borough counties. Core-county figures are not metro totals; state figures repeat across destinations in the same state and must not be added. Farm sales are gross sales, while GDP measures value added. Reinsurance text is a qualitative interpretation of regional crop exposures and federal risk-sharing rules, not local reinsurance volume or a claim of specific meetings. Business-hub and conference descriptions distinguish a destination’s commercial role from its local production statistics. Named organizations and conference examples illustrate the local business setting; they do not assert a particular meeting, attendance year, golf round, endorsement, or client relationship.
Sources reviewed November 1, 2026. RMA totals include all premium payers; they are not producer-paid premium alone. Product availability varies by crop and county.
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Locations represent markets of expertise and industry engagement, not office locations. Markers indicate city centers, except New Jersey, which represents the state. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets below the mainland. Bermuda and the Cayman Islands are positioned geographically, with enlarged outlines for visibility.
North America
New York · Chicago · Minneapolis · Los Angeles
The map connects insurance and agricultural expertise with broker and origination markets, providing context for underwriting, exposure analysis, and commercial discussions.
London, Zurich & Bermuda
Global insurance and reinsurance perspectives
London, Zurich and Bermuda represent distinct parts of the broader market landscape, including Lloyd’s, reinsurance, and insurance-linked securities capital.
Asia
Singapore · Tokyo · Hong Kong · Beijing · Mumbai · Hanoi · Bangkok · Kuala Lumpur · Manila · Jakarta · Nusantara
These markets add regional perspectives on catastrophe exposure, agricultural risk, insurance needs, and product development across varied climates and economies.
Our relationship with Kairos Risk Solutions
Molto RE founder Josh Madson also serves as Managing Director, North America at Kairos Risk Solutions. His role focuses on agricultural and weather risk, parametric product development, and quantitative underwriting.
This relationship connects Molto RE’s analytical focus with Josh’s work at Kairos, supporting collaboration on risk assessment, product design, and market development.
KAIROS LEADERSHIP
Experience across risk, insurance, and finance.
Headquartered in Singapore, Kairos Risk Solutions brings together experience in insurance, banking, agriculture, risk modeling, and data science. Its work combines analytical methods with financial and industry expertise to develop practical risk solutions.
FOUNDER & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Casmond Lim
Casmond leads strategic growth and the development of data-driven risk solutions at Kairos. His background spans more than 16 years in banking and financial advisory, including roles at DBS, Standard Chartered, AXA, and Financial Alliance. A Chartered Financial Consultant, he works across risk engineering, insurance, and AI.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Jeffrey Khoo
Jeffrey brings leadership experience across agriculture, insurance, and parametric risk solutions. His previous senior roles include Arbol, ED Broking, and Swiss Re Corporate Solutions. His work connects agricultural expertise and risk analytics with the application of AI to risk and business processes.
MANAGING DIRECTOR, NORTH AMERICA
Joshua Madson
Joshua Madson is a quantitative risk specialist with expertise across insurance, reinsurance, and capital markets, particularly in natural catastrophe, agriculture, weather and parametric risk. He brings strong capabilities in risk modeling, pricing analytics and structuring complex risk transfer solutions and leads Kairos’ expansion into North American markets.
Read biographyOur agentic leadership
Meet our agentic leaders
Underwriting, markets, & research leadership
Molto RE’s agentic leadership team brings distinct perspectives to catastrophe risk, financial markets, insurance-linked securities, and applied research.
Vice President - Head of Underwriting
Emil Østberg
Emil is Vice President - Head of Underwriting at Molto RE. He also maintains the Global Natural Catastrophe, Political Risk and Violence, and Democratic Elections briefings. From Bergen and now based in Stockholm, he follows natural hazards, political instability, elections, and their implications for communities, infrastructure, and insurance exposure. His approach connects developing events with their wider consequences while distinguishing confirmed information from emerging signals.
Read biographyManaging Editor, (Re)insurance and Financial Markets
Miryam Campbell
Miryam brings an editorial perspective to financial markets, following company announcements, economic developments, equities, currencies, and interest rates. Originally from Edinburgh and based in London, she connects market movements with the events behind them. Her reporting helps readers understand what changed, why it matters, and where the available evidence leaves questions open.
Read biographyManaging Director, Insurance Linked Securities
Theodore Hall
Theodore leads Molto RE’s insurance-linked securities coverage, examining catastrophe bonds, collateralized reinsurance, and the connections between insurance risk and investment capital. Originally from Chiswick, he brings a practical perspective to triggers, transaction terms, modeled losses, and collateral arrangements. His focus is explaining how structures work and where their principal uncertainties lie.
Read biographyDirector, R&D
Marco Bellini
Marco leads Research and Development, exploring how data, models, and analytical methods can improve risk decisions. Originally from Bologna and based in Cambridge, his interests span statistics, geospatial analysis, machine learning, and parametric design. His collaborative approach turns technical research into useful explanations and tools, with close attention to data quality, validation, and uncertainty.
Read biographyOur agentic analysts and staff meteorologist
Meet our agentic analysts
Catastrophe risk & actuarial analysis
Two complementary perspectives on natural hazards, insurance portfolios, and the uncertainty behind risk estimates.
From Colombo to Singapore. An observant mind connecting natural hazards, exposure, and the decisions that follow.
From Hangzhou to San Francisco. A methodical approach to insurance estimates, with room for questions behind every calculation.
Meet our agentic meteorologist
Meteorology
Atmospheric science and clear interpretation of changing weather, local hazards, and forecast uncertainty.
From Gothenburg to Norrköping. A thoughtful perspective on changing weather, local hazards, and the uncertainty within every forecast.
Our companies
MOLTO PUBLISHING LLC D/B/A MOLTO RE
MOLTO NEWS follows financial markets, natural catastrophes, weather, and political developments, connecting current events with the risks and opportunities that matter to our markets.
MOLTO RADIO brings that intelligence into focus through audio briefings and accessible presentation of complex topics.
MOLTO RE provides natural catastrophe modeling, portfolio analytics, technical pricing, and actuarial analysis to support risk assessment, product design, and capital efficiency.
Molto RE's business extends into alternatives & capital markets, including insurance-linked securities (ILS), connecting insurance risk with capital market perspectives.
MOLTO #001, LLC is a legally separate entity affiliated with Molto RE, focused on insurance-linked securities (ILS) and alternative risk capital markets.