All the headlines from our Reinsurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 6 2022 // Global reinsurers’ capital levels dropped by 11% in the first half of 2022 to $647 billion, hurt by market declines, though higher interest rates helped their liability positions, broker Gallagher Re said on...
Sep 5 2022 // AM Best estimates that traditional reinsurance capital will drop by roughly $40 billion to $435 billion at year-end 2022, after hefty jumps recorded in each of the prior three years.The projected 8.4% decline to $435...
Sep 2 2022 // Brazilian reinsurer IRB Brasil Resseguros SA confirmed late on Thursday it had raised 1.2 billion reais ($228.9 million) in a share offering, after successive monthly losses led analysts to raise alerts on its capital...
Aug 31 2022 // The natural catastrophe business of global reinsurers has been reshaped by five years of higher-than-expected losses, which is leading reinsurers to adopt divergent strategies – either diving in to write more business at...
Aug 29 2022 // The cyber re/insurance protection gap provides an opportunity for insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors, which historically have filled the gaps where traditional capital has either retrenched or is unavailable,...
Aug 25 2022 // CNA Hardy Taps Zurich’s Crew, Chubb’s Devenish for Management Liability TeamCNA Hardy has appointed Edward Crew as senior technical underwriter, and Oliver Devenish, as underwriter, to the London/Lloyd’s...
Aug 25 2022 // Russian coal exports were effectively halted by a European Union ban on entities within the 27-nation bloc servicing shipments of the fuel to anywhere in the world.Suek JSC, Russia’s largest thermal coal miner, was...
Aug 24 2022 // U.S. and Bermuda reinsurers reported strong operating performance for the first six months of 2022, supported by continued pricing increases in most reinsurance and specialty lines of business as well as tighter terms and...
Aug 22 2022 // AM Best estimates that traditional reinsurance capital will drop by roughly $40 billion to $435 billion at year-end 2022, after hefty jumps recorded in each of the prior three years.The projected 8.4% decline to $435...
Aug 17 2022 // Munich Re for the second-straight year holds the top spot in AM Best’s annual ranking of the Top 50 Global Reinsurance groups in 2021, followed once again by Swiss Re. The two global reinsurers together account for...
Aug 15 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Peak Re and CNA Hardy.A summary of these new hires follows here. Hong Kong Reinsurer Peak Re Appoints Nowakowski as CUOPeak Re, a Hong Kong-based global...
Aug 15 2022 // Mergers and acquisitions in the global reinsurance sector will be limited into 2023 amid investor concerns over macroeconomic risks and heightened catastrophe losses linked to climate change, according to Fitch...
Aug 9 2022 // Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Japan’s MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, will spend about $400 million to buy U.S. reinsurance broker Transverse, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.The...
Aug 8 2022 // Quotech, the insurtech that creates data-taming systems for specialty insurers, brokers, and MGAs, has raised £1 million from a number of angel investors and Convex Group Ltd., the international specialty insurer and...
Jul 28 2022 // Reinsurer SCOR reported a first half loss attributed to the war in Ukraine, natural catastrophes and the severe drought in Brazil.The H1 loss of €239 million (US$242.6 million), compares with net income of €380 million...
Jul 27 2022 // Florida’s insurance commissioner announced today that his office has found an “unprecedented solution” to the looming property insurer rating crisis – let Citizens Property Insurance Corp. provide a...
Jul 25 2022 // BMS Group, the independent specialist re/insurance broker, announce the acquisition of Calomex, the Mexico City-based specialist reinsurance broker, by BMS Re.The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in...
Jul 6 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at MS Amlin, DUAL Europe, and Gallagher Re.A summary of these new hires follows here. MS Amlin Names Liberty Mutual’s Baxter as Head of Reinsurance,...
Jul 5 2022 // For the first time since the devastating U.S. hurricanes of 2004 and 2005, property-catastrophe capacity contracted during the June/July reinsurance renewal period, Aon said in a recently released report.While the...
Jul 1 2022 // Property reinsurance rates rose by as much as 50% in Florida at July 1 renewals and by up to 40% in the United States overall, reinsurance broker Gallagher Re said on Friday, as reinsurers grappled with higher inflation...