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Tokio Marine Kiln Launches Specialty Reinsurance Division

Sep 13 2024 // Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), the international specialist insurer, announced the formation of a new Specialty Reinsurance division to support the company’s growth ambitions in the sector.The new division will be led by...

Treaty Reinsurance Premiums in London Company Market Grew by 32% in 2023: IUA

Sep 11 2024 // Treaty reinsurance written in the London company market grew by almost one-third in 2023, with the sector generating premiums of £10.889 billion (US$14.2 billion), up from £8.248 billion ($10.8 billion) in 2022,...

Viewpoint: CrowdStrike Failure Highlights Potential Aggregation Risks for Reinsurers

Sep 10 2024 // The unique, evolving and often volatile nature of cyber risks has always lurked beneath the surface as the cyber insurance premium climbed in recent years.The recent CrowdStrike software failure underscored the dormant...

Viewpoint: Reinsurers Reach Peak Performance as Market Stabilizes; M&A on Hold

Sep 9 2024 // The reinsurance market has reached an equilibrium, with increased capital supply from accumulated earnings meeting higher demand for reinsurance protection from cedents. As such, margins will peak in 2024, although...

Coalition Starts Reinsurance Intermediary Coalition Re Led by Aspen Capacity

Sep 9 2024 // Coalition today announced the creation of its reinsurance intermediary, Coalition Re, to provide capacity for cyber reinsurance treaties and expand on its mission to protect more unprotected businesses. Coalition Re...

Climate Losses Batter Insurers While Reinsurers Step Back

Sep 5 2024 // As the planet warms and more natural disasters occur, insurers are facing an increasingly difficult time.In 2023, for the fourth year in a row, global insured catastrophe losses exceeded $100 billion. The trend continues...

Reinsurers’ Appetite for Natural Catastrophe Risks Grows – But Discipline Remains

Sep 4 2024 // Top reinsurers are showing increasing – but disciplined – appetite for natural catastrophe risks as a result of rising demand, better pricing, more favorable terms and conditions, and sound investment income, according...

Global Non-Life Reinsurer’s Profits to Peak in 2024: Fitch Ratings

Sep 3 2024 // Fitch Ratings published midyear underwriting results for 19 non-life reinsurers, finding that the group’s average first-half 2024 combined ratio was 84.2, and forecasting continued profits for the rest of 2024 and...

Munich Re and Swiss Re Both Top List of 2023’s Largest Reinsurers

Aug 30 2024 // Munich Re tops the list of the world’s 50 largest reinsurers that use IFRS 17 reporting standards, while Swiss Re is the largest non-IFRS 17 reinsurer, according to AM Best.Among the largest IFRS 17 reporting...

Hard Reinsurance Prices Likely to Last Longer Than in Previous Market Cycles: Report

Aug 15 2024 // Hard reinsurance pricing conditions are likely to last longer than in previous market cycles mainly due to persistently high claims activity from the accumulation of medium-sized disaster losses and secondary perils,...

People Moves: Aon Names Nudo Senior Managing Director of Reinsurance for Chicago

Aug 13 2024 // Nick Nudo Aon plc named Nick Nudo as senior managing director of reinsurance for Chicago. Based in Chicago, Nudo joins Aon having most recently served as chief underwriting officer of reinsurer SCOR’s U.S....

Skyward Specialty Enters the Mortgage (Re)insurance Market

Aug 13 2024 // Skyward Specialty Insurance Group announced its entry into the mortgage (re)insurance market. In support of this new venture, Jean-Philippe “JP” Latour joined the company as senior vice president in May 2024....

Australian Pensions Industry Boosts Investments in Natural Catastrophe Reinsurance

Aug 12 2024 // The risks from the growing number of natural disasters offer Australia’s largest pension funds a chance to boost returns.Colonial First State, one of the nation’s biggest pension and wealth managers, is looking...

Insurance Broker Miller Acquires Swiss Reinsurance Capital Advisory Business

Aug 1 2024 // Miller, the London-based independent specialist re/insurance broker, announced the acquisition of reinsurance capital advisory business 4809 Brokers AG.Financial details were not disclosed. As its third Continental...

Reinsurer SCOR’s Recovery Clouded by First Quarterly Loss Since 2022

Jul 30 2024 // SCOR SE Chief Executive Officer Thierry Leger said he’s taking over control of the company’s life and health unit after it led the firm to report its first quarterly loss since 2022.The Paris-based reinsurer...

New London-Based Specialty Reinsurer, Stability Re, Launched

Jul 24 2024 // The Connect Group announced the launch of a London-based specialty reinsurer, Stability Re.This follows the formation in September 2023 of Stability Risk, an MGA created to allow Connect Underwriting Ltd. (a specialist...

What Happened to Reinsurance ‘Class of 2023’? Hard Market Defies Age-Old Patterns.

Jul 12 2024 // Catastrophic events, such as major hurricanes and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, traditionally have led to hard markets that in turn drove the formation of startup reinsurers to fill capacity needs. Reinsurers launched in...

People Moves: Gallagher Hires Eaton From Howden for US Cargo Role; Hartford Names Fish Head of Group Benefits, Bassett Global CUO and Head of Reinsurance

Jul 10 2024 // Gallagher Names Eaton Exec Director to Support US CargoGallagher appointed of Jonathan Eaton to executive director, responsible for overseeing wholesale to other non-specialist brokers and working with Gallagher offices in...

People Moves: SiriusPoint Int’l Managing Agency Names Castel’s Williams as Chief Risk Officer; Everest Promotes Townsend to Chief Ceded Reinsurance Officer

Jul 9 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at SiriusPoint and Everest Insurance.A summary of these new hires follows here. SiriusPoint International Managing Agency Names Castel’s Williams as...

Reinsurers’ Appetite Grows During Mid-Year Renewals but Discipline Remains: Brokers

Jul 8 2024 // Reinsurance buyers generally saw positive outcomes during the mid-year renewals, finding adequate capacity to meet cedents’ increasing demand for protection — in both property and casualty, according to three...