Reinsurance News

Profitable growth expected for UK P&C insurers in 2025 amid moderating price momentum: Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs, a global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm, has analysed the current pricing trends across the UK’s property and casualty (P&C) insurance sector, suggesting that profitable growth opportunities...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

Insurers in the US to benefit from Near Space Labs’ enhanced aerial imagery

Near Space Labs, an aerial imagery provider for insurance applications among others, has announced the deployment of stratospheric robots across the United States, which will contribute to delivering improved aerial imagery throughout the country....

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

Flooding risk presents major credit challenges for Eastern and Southern US: Moody’s 

Destructive flooding recently caused by hurricane Helene highlights an increasing flood risk for local economies and tax bases, notably across the Eastern and Southern United States, says Moody’s Ratings. However, according to analysts, as c...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

GenAI can open doors for malicious cyber actors to exploit capabilities

Generative AI (GenAI) presents many ways for organisations to revolutionise their respective industries by enhancing business functions, however, the technology may also open doors for malicious actors to exploit capabilities for cyber attacks, ac...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

Artemis Live ILS Market Outlook 2025 webinar – Watch the full replay

Our insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused sister publication, Artemis, has now published the full video of its ILS Market Outlook 2025 live webinar, during which experts from across the industry dissected the state of the catastrophe bond and...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

AIG appoints Torben Schwierzke as Head of Casualty for DACH region

American International Group (AIG), a global insurance company, has appointed Torben Schwierzke as the new Head of Casualty for the DACH region, overseeing the company’s Casualty business in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Schwierzke is a...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

Understanding, calculating & underwriting systemic risk is cyber’s biggest challenge today: Coalitio...

As cyber continues to remain one of the biggest lines of business across the re/insurance industry, there are a number of challenges that the cyber market is currently facing, in light of the recent number of data breaches and major cyber events t...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

Fitch revises Fortitude Re’s outlook to positive amid continued growth

Fitch Ratings has revised Fortitude Re’s outlook to Positive from Stable, citing the firm’s improving profile driven by growth and enhanced diversification across liabilities and geographies, alongside its strong balance sheet. The rat...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

AJ Gallagher acquires retail insurance broker Shepard

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a global insurance brokerage, risk management, and consulting services firm, has announced its acquisition of Shepard Insurance Group, based in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Shepard Insurance is a retail insurance brok...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

Apollo’s Smart Follow and Artificial renew partnership

Smart Follow, a technology-enabled underwriting class within insurance group Apollo, has renewed its partnership with Artificial, a provider of digital follow underwriting technology. This partnership will enable Smart Follow to deploy its capacit...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

Reinsurers to remain a ‘pillar’ in development of effective cyber market: S&P

As per a new report from S&P Global, the reinsurance market is set to remain extremely important in providing capital and capacity to support further revenue growth in the cyber insurance market. “In our view, reinsurers will remain an i...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

B.P. Marsh and Partners invests additional $12.6m in XPT

B.P. Marsh and Partners, a specialist private equity investor in early stage financial services businesses, has further invested $12.6 million in XPT, a US based wholesale insurance broking and underwriting agency platform across the US Specialty...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

Aviva completes £1.7bn buy-in with National Grid pension scheme

Aviva has completed a £1.7 billion pensioner buy-in with the National Grid Electricity Group (the Group) of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme (the Scheme). Aviva stated that the transaction, completed in October 2024, involved transferring the...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

QBE reports 2% GWP growth on renewal premium rate increases of almost 6%

Australian insurer QBE, in its latest performance update, has revealed that gross written premium (GWP) growth in the nine months to September 30th was 2% on the prior period, on both a reported and constant currency basis. The insurer explains th...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

Arch Insurance Intl. promotes Ouwehand to lead its Terrorism, Political Violence and War team

Arch Insurance International, a division of Bermuda-based re/insurer Arch Capital Group, has promoted Jelle Ouwehand to Head of Terrorism, Political Violence and War, based in London with a reporting line to Lino Leoni, Chief Underwriting Officer,...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

AM Best upgrades credit ratings of Zurich and its core subsidiaries

AM Best has upgraded the Issuer Credit Ratings of Zurich Insurance Group and its core subsidiaries, highlighting the firm’s robust balance sheet, strong operating performance, and very favourable business profile as key factors driving the d...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

ACORD launches ADEPT Placing for unified data exchange in global insurance market

ACORD Solutions Group, a provider of advanced digital solutions for the global insurance sector, has introduced a placing data exchange capability within its ADEPT platform. This one-to-many interface serves as a universal hub, enabling insurers a...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

SRG names Matt Byrne as Executive Director, Entertainment and Sport

Insurance industry intermediary, Specialist Risk Group (SRG), has announced the promotion of Matt Byrne to Executive Director of their Entertainment and Sport pillar. Prior to his new role, Byrne was Head of Broking – Entertainment Media &#3...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

Aon to acquire Mitsubishi Chemical Group’s insurance agency in Japan

Aon, a global professional services firm, has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire the in-house insurance agency business of Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG), further strengthening the re/insurance broker’s risk and heal...

Posted: Nov 27, 2024

PartnerRe appoints Chris Shanahan as CEO of Life & Health

Bermuda-based reinsurance company PartnerRe has promoted Chris Shanahan to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its Life & Health operations, succeeding Marc Archambault, effective January 1st, 2025. Since September 2021, Shanahan has served as Pa...

Posted: Nov 26, 2024

Abu Dhabi Re expands product suite

Abu Dhabi Reinsurance Company (ADRe), a reinsurance service provider in the Abu Dhabi Global Markets platform, has announced the expansion of its product suite to include Commercial General Liability. From what Reinsurance News understands, the ad...

Posted: Nov 26, 2024

Stuart Dale joins David Martin to lead Volante Re

Stuart Dale has joined international managing general agent Volante Global to head the firm’s new Volante Re platform as CUO Treaty Reinsurance alongside David Martin. Volante Re will formally commence operations on June 1st, 2025. The company wil...

Posted: Nov 26, 2024

VIG’s 9M’24 GWP rises to €11.5bn

Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) has disclosed that gross written premiums (GWP) increased by 8% to €11.5 billion for 9M 2024, compared to last year’s €11.4 billion, as insurance service revenue grew more than 9% year-on-year to €9 billion. The insure...

Posted: Nov 26, 2024

Hadron appoints Colin Johnson as CEO, International

Hybrid insurer Hadron has announced the appointment of Colin Johnson as Chief Executive Officer of the company’s International operations. In his new role, Johnson will oversee Hadron UK Insurance Company (HUKIC) and related companies, pending reg...

Posted: Nov 26, 2024

China’s untapped personal & health insurance market to unlock growth opportunities: BCG

China’s personal insurance sector is predicted to grow in the range of 5% to 10% by 2035, a potential expansion primarily driven by the relatively untapped market for pension and health insurance in the country, according to a recent report...

Posted: Nov 26, 2024