CRESTA.ORG

The CRESTA organisation was established by the re/insurance industry in 1977 as an independent body to facilitate the risk management of natural catastrophe insurance. Its manager is PERILS CRESTA AG, a subsidiary of Zurich-based PERILS AG. CRESTA's main goal is to maintain a uniform global zoning system for the exchange, comparison, visualization, and modelling of aggregated insurance data used for risk accumulation control and risk assessment. CRESTA also provides independent industry loss data for major natural catastrophes under its CRESTA CLIX service