Latest Reinsurance Headlines

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Reinsurers Face Major Claims Uncertainties, but Reap Benefits of Pricing Tailwinds

Sep 16 2021 // A principal negative factor affecting the reinsurance industry is the large amount of claims uncertainty, but positive tailwinds are offsetting these negative headwinds, creating a stable outlook for the sector into 2022,...

Cyber Re/Insurance MGA, Envelop Risk, Announces $130 Million Series B Financing

Sep 14 2021 // Envelop Risk, the UK-based cyber re/insurance managing general agent, announced a Series B investment of $130 million, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.The financing will facilitate Envelop Risk’s plans to expand its...

Gallagher Re Touts Advanced Integrated Reinsurance Analytics Platform

Sep 14 2021 // Global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has unveiled an automated analytics platform it says benefits reinsurance clients and markets by bringing together all analytics capabilities into one platform and providing a...

Aon Combines Facultative Reinsurance Broking Teams in APAC, Led by Lambrou

Sep 14 2021 // Aon plc announced that the facultative reinsurance broking team within Aon’s Singapore Broking Centre and Reinsurance Solutions’ APAC facultative team have combined to create a united facultative reinsurance...

Volatile Cyber Market Struggles to Boost Reinsurance Capacity

Sep 13 2021 // The cyber insurance market could benefit greatly from more reinsurance cover but it has been a challenge to attract interest. Part of the reason is because the cyber market is a relatively new one compared to others in the...

P/C Reinsurers Maintain Underwriting Discipline, Despite Rising Capacity: Guy Carpenter

Sep 10 2021 // Property and casualty reinsurers have displayed underwriting discipline during this year’s renewals, continuing with rate corrections that began several years ago, despite the pressures of abundant capacity. Prices...

For Now, No Need for Federal Cyber Reinsurance Backstop: Experts

Sep 9 2021 // Business owners need guidance rather than a federal reinsurance backstop to help them navigate an increasingly volatile cyber insurance market, a panel of experts said recently.“I don’t think a compelling case...

Global Reinsurers Shoulder ‘Considerable Burden’ of COVID-19 Claims

Sep 9 2021 // Global life and non-life insurance and reinsurance COVID-19 claims are approaching $50 billion, which has had a significant burden on reinsurers, according to Mike Van Slooten, head of Business Intelligence for Aon...

Global Reinsurance Rates, Demand to Continue Rising in 2022

Sep 7 2021 // Global reinsurance rates are likely to continue rising next year after several years of increases, though the pace of increase may slow, ratings analysts said on Tuesday.Reinsurance rates have been rising in the past few...

Reinsurance Prices Expected to Harden at Jan. 2022 Renewals

Sep 6 2021 // Global reinsurers’ underwriting performance will continue to improve in 2022 as premium rate increases take hold, with further rate hikes expected as a result of higher catastrophe losses, continued low interest...

Reinsurer SCOR Restructures Group Leadership Team

Sep 3 2021 // SCOR announced changes to its group executive committee, which aim to facilitate the reinsurer’s next phase of strategic development.SCOR said all the changes were made with internal promotions. The following group...

Munich Re Moves Ahead of Swiss Re as Reinsurer With Most GPW: AM Best

Sep 2 2021 // Munich Re replaced Swiss Re as the largest reinsurer in AM Best’s annual ranking of the Top 50 Global Reinsurance groups in 2020, marking a return to a position that it last held in 2017.Swiss Re held the top spot in...

Beazley Out as Reinsurer MS Amlin’s CEO; Successor CEO Selected But Not Named

Sep 1 2021 // Global reinsurer MS Amlin AG announced that Christopher Beazley has stepped down as chief executive officer.According to the announcement, Beazley will “pursue opportunities outside of MS Amlin” after serving...

Ascot Realigns Global Reinsurance With Launch of Ascot Re

Aug 31 2021 // HAMILTON, BERMUDA — Ascot announced the launch of Ascot Reinsurance, a global platform dedicated to reinsurance underwriting and ceded risk and providing a single point of entry for all Ascot’s reinsurance products...

South Africa’s State Insurer to Raise Premiums to Cover Riot-Related Reinsurance Costs

Aug 25 2021 // JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s only insurer covering political violence will increase its premiums to cover a rise in reinsurance costs following some of the worst unrest in decades, the head of the state-owned...

Reinsurance Prices Expected to Harden at Jan. 2022 Renewals – with Less Momentum

Aug 24 2021 // Global reinsurers’ underwriting performance will continue to improve in 2022 as premium rate increases take hold, with further rate hikes expected as a result of higher catastrophe losses, continued low interest...

People Moves: Aon Reinsurance Appoints 6; TigerRisk Hires Edwards from Lloyd’s; Nexus Names Tan Head of Treaty; Riveros to AXIS Re for Credit & Surety

Aug 23 2021 // This edition of International People Moves details reinsurance-related appointments at two brokers: Aon Reinsurance Solutions and TigerRisk as well as MGA Nexus and AXIS Re.A summary of these new hires follows here. Aon...

Europe Reinsurers’ H1 Profits Climb on Lower COVID Claims, Hardening Prices: Moody’s

Aug 19 2021 // The four largest European based reinsurers – Munich Re, Swiss Re, Hannover Re and SCOR – reported sharply higher profits in the first half of 2021, compared with the same period in 2020 — as a result of lower...

AM Best: Outlooks Negative for Wisconsin Reinsurance Group Members

Aug 17 2021 // AM Best revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “bbb” (Good) of Madison-based Wisconsin Reinsurance Corp....

Brookfield Reinsurance Unit to Buy American National for $5.1 Billion

Aug 9 2021 // Brookfield Asset Management Inc.’s reinsurance unit has agreed to buy insurer American National Group Inc for about $5.1 billion in an all-cash deal, the companies said on Monday.Started in 1905 by William Lewis...