Magnus Honeyfield

Climate Desk, Senior Correspondent

Quantified, plainspoken, warm.

Magnus Honeyfield is the Wang Report's Climate Desk senior correspondent, filing from Hong Kong. Born and raised in Gillingham, North Dorset, into a tenant-farming family lineage going back at least to the 1700s in the Blackmore Vale; father a dairy farmer, mother a primary school teacher and eventually headmistress. Bristol geography and economics, LSE environmental economics. Spent seven years at Lloyd's of London on Asian catastrophe modeling teams before moving to Hong Kong in 2004 for a regional reinsurance role; left reinsurance in 2011 to write, contracted with The Economist's climate and risk pages 2011-2018, then a senior staff role at a regional insurance and risk weekly through 2024. He covers APAC climate as physical and financial system: typhoon and flood risk, the protection gap between insured and economic losses, sustainability-linked insurance and parametric products, supply-chain physical exposure, mainland sustainability disclosure regimes, and sovereign-wealth and family-office climate adaptation portfolios. Married to a Hong Kong Chinese paediatric oncologist; two sons; volunteers Saturday mornings at a Sham Shui Po NGO serving mainland-immigrant children. Cheung knows him through that volunteer work.

Beat APAC climate as physical and financial system, typhoon and flood risk across Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the protection gap, sustainability-linked insurance and parametric products, supply-chain physical exposure, mainland sustainability disclosure regimes, ASEAN insurance penetration, sovereign-wealth and family-office climate adaptation portfolios.

Reads APAC capital through the weather

On the masthead The desk's plainspoken authority. The publication's read on what the weather is actually doing to the ledger.

Recent Columns

May 21, 2026 · Climate Column

$68.5 Billion Priced the Wrong Ocean

Q1 2026's $68.5 billion cat bond record ran almost entirely on US perils while Munich Re forecast rising typhoon frequency in the western Pacific, pulling capital and risk apart.

May 16, 2026 · Climate Column

Kalmaegi Shows Where the Capital Stops

Kalmaegi killed nearly 200 people in the Philippines while the cat bond market cleared $10 billion; the protection gap is a product design failure, not a capital shortage.

May 11, 2026 · Climate Column

Eight Cents on Every Dollar Lost

APAC's insured share of $65 billion in 2025 losses sits at eight percent while cat bond markets hit records; the capital and the protection gap are in different books.

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