Renaissance Re news

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda based reinsurer and third-party capital manager, is seeking further scale in all its endeavours, with the acquisition of the Validus reinsurance business and Talbot reinsurance book from global player AIG, while the deal includes buying the AlphaCat Managers ILS fund management unit as well.

The “denominator effect” and investor rebalancing across asset classes has driven some of the biggest challenges for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market in recent months, Chris Parry, Global Head of Capital Partners at RenaissanceRe, told us in our latest Artemis Live interview.

At the key January 1st reinsurance renewal season, RenaissanceRe, the global reinsurance firm and third-party capital manager, purchased more retrocessional protection that had been anticipated, according to CEO Kevin O’Donnell.

RenaissanceRe (RenRe), the Bermuda-headquartered reinsurance and third-party capital management specialist, has secured AM Best ratings for the two reinsurers it had established for its Fontana Holdings third-party capitalised casualty and specialty reinsurance focused joint venture.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda headquartered reinsurance and third-party capital management specialist, passed on some $372.4 million of losses to investors in some of its managed reinsurance structures during the third-quarter, with hurricane Ian the main driver.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda headquartered reinsurance and third-party capital management specialist, has pre-announced an estimated $650 million of catastrophe losses from the third-quarter of 2022, with $540 million expected from hurricane Ian.

Bermuda headquartered reinsurance firm RenaissanceRe has added another hire to its third-party capital management Capital Partners team, with Preston Farrow joining as an Analyst.

Bermuda headquartered global reinsurance firm RenaissanceRe continued to expand its underwriting in the second-quarter of the year, which provided it an opportunity to share more risk with some of its third-party capital partners.

For global reinsurance firm RenaissanceRe, the Medici catastrophe bond focused investment fund strategy has been one of its sources of growth in third-party capital assets under management in recent years, a trend that continued in 2022.

RenaissanceRe is managing the volatile ceded reinsurance and retrocession market by leveraging its ability to cede more risk to its managed capital and so buy less on the open market, according to comments made by its CEO.