Reinsurance News
Munich Re, one of Europe’s big four reinsurance companies, is still expecting attractive opportunities at the key January 1st, 2026, reinsurance renewals, emphasising that traditional capital remains the backbone for risk transfer in a world...
Posted: Sep 07, 2025
In an interview with Reinsurance News around RVS 2025 in Monte Carlo, Achim Bosch, CEO of Deutsche Rück, said the company is maintaining its selective and disciplined approach ahead of the January 2026 renewals, while noting that he does not expec...
Posted: Sep 07, 2025
AM Best is the only rating agency that has maintained its positive outlook on the global reinsurance sector, and Greg Carter, Managing Director, Analytics, at the company’s briefing at RVS 2025 today, stressed that if now is not a positive m...
Posted: Sep 07, 2025
Property catastrophe rates are expected to decline at year-end, but a number of factors will keep underwriting discipline, Brian Schneider, Senior Director at Fitch Ratings noted at RVS 2025 in Monaco, with Manuel Arrivé, CFA, Director, suggesting...
Posted: Sep 07, 2025
Bermuda-based reinsurer RenaissanceRe (RenRe) has announced the expansion of Adria Da Breo Richards’ role to include management of Property Cat Assumed Retro portfolio, alongside her current role overseeing Property Cat portfolios for RenRe’s Glob...
Posted: Sep 07, 2025
Amid a spike in uncertainty globally, Renaud Guidée, Chief Executive Officer of AXA XL Re, believes that reinsurance has never been more relevant as a means to “bridge the gap between uncertainty and certainty.” Reinsurance News spoke with Guidée...
Posted: Sep 07, 2025
Our ranking of the world’s largest reinsurance brokers reveals that, based on revenues, Aon Reinsurance Solutions led the way in 2024, however, Guy Carpenter, the reinsurance broking arm of Marsh McLennan, is ahead in 2025. With revenues of...
Posted: Sep 07, 2025
As the global property and casualty (P&C) insurance market continues to expand, industry giant Swiss Re has highlighted that robust reinsurance and alternative risk solutions are further broadening capacity and helping to keep coverage both af...
Posted: Sep 06, 2025
Insurance Europe, the federation representing national insurance associations across 39 European countries, has cautioned that the European Commission’s draft Level 2 measures for Solvency II fall well short of political commitments made by EU law...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
Insurtech company Optalitix has introduced an expansion of its pricing platform, Optalitix Quote, aimed at the reinsurance market. The system, which has been used by insurers and MGAs, now includes tools for reinsurers to model treaty and facultat...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
IQUW Re Bermuda has expanded its predominantly Property Cat Reinsurance product suite with the additions of Mortgage, Credit, and Cyber Reinsurance to its portfolio. IQUW Re Bermuda stated that, supported by its strong balance sheet and capital fo...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
Aon, a global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has announced the appointment of Andrew Minnitt as Head of Southeast Asia. The newly created role brings together Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam as a un...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
AM Best, the credit rating agency, reports that Lloyd’s reinsurance business has seen substantial growth in recent years, with a five-year compound average growth rate of 9 percent. Specialty reinsurance has been the fastest-growing segment, recor...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
MultiStrat has named Nadia Chychrun as Chief of Staff and Group Senior Director of Program Change, and Paul McCabe as Executive Director – Operations (COO), while also entering a definitive agreement to provide underwriting and liability managemen...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
Advancements in risk modelling offer a big opportunity for the reinsurance market to better understand and price secondary perils, the co-founder and CEO of Karen Clark & Company (KCC), Karen Clark, shared in a recent interview with Reinsuranc...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
Flood Re, the UK government-backed scheme funded by the insurance industry to improve access to affordable flood insurance, has appointed Michael Murphy as Independent Non-Executive Director and Sue Mulry-Lawson as Interim Chief Risk Officer (CRO)...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
Howden Re, the global reinsurance, capital markets and strategic advisory arm of Howden, has suggested that those who combine market insight with technical execution, portfolio diversification and innovative structures will be best placed to succe...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), a provider of commercial property, casualty, and specialty insurance solutions, has appointed Anna Spink as Head of Marine, Australasia. In her new role, Spink will be based in Sydney and lead the mar...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
Lloyd’s Chief Executive Officer Patrick Tiernan has set out his vision for the future of the market, stressing both the need to strengthen Lloyd’s relevance to stakeholders and to reduce the cost of doing business. “We will strive to increase the...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
BluePond.AI, a GenAI-native insurtech, has introduced its latest solution, P&C Reinsurance CoPilot, a tool designed to automate the ingestion of complex reinsurance documents and optimise workflow efficiency. Reinsurance contracts are often le...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
Lockton Re, the reinsurance arm of the privately owned independent insurance broker, has announced the appointment of James Stephens as Head of Crisis Management in its London office. Tom Meyer, Head of Specialty, Lockton Re, added: “We are...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
A new report from Aon has hailed the attractive yet dynamic reinsurance market, noting that buyers can seize a strategic advantage amid global reinsurance capital reaching a record $735 billion as of June 30, 2025. According to the firm’s ne...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
Independent reinsurance broker Price Forbes Re has announced the appointment of Tim Barber as CEO, London, reporting directly to Chris Bonard, president of the company. Barber brings over four decades of industry experience to his new role. As par...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
Apollo, the technology-driven insurance platform, has received “in principle” approval from Lloyd’s Council to establish Apollo ReShare Syndicate 1972, which is expected to commence underwriting on 1st January 2026. The new syndicate will provide...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025
Only around 4% of UK SMEs currently buy terrorism insurance, a shortfall Pool Re attributes as much to a “perception gap” as to cost, with many businesses unaware that terrorism risks are excluded from standard policies, prompting a Treaty overhau...
Posted: Sep 05, 2025