Archive for September, 2024

Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re is expecting continued rising demand for coverage of natural catastrophe risks, as the volatile environment is likely to result in increased use of insurance and reinsurance protection to manage risk.

In order to avoid disappointing investors and guarantee continued access to capital, the reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) industry needs to escape the market-cycle mindset and deal with the biggest threat it faces, which is inertia, according to Chris McKeown of Vantage Risk.

The outstanding market for collateralized reinsurance sidecar structures has reached a new record high of $10 billion in 2024, which represents roughly 40% growth on the prior year, Aon Securities estimates.

According to reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter’s Global Specialties division, there is an expectation more non-marine retrocessional capital and capacity comes to market through the end of year, which could impact supply-demand dynamics and cost of coverage.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending September 8th 2024, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

As the reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market begins to look towards year-end issuance, renewals and into 2025, Chris Minter, the new Head of Swiss Re’s Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) division, told Artemis that one of the biggest challenges for ILS is the uncertainty and perception of the influence climate change may have on insured […]

At a briefing held in Monte Carlo today by Munich Re, its executives explained that the reinsurance market is still not “super-hard” which means underwriting has to deliver returns and so they aren’t expecting much to be given back at the end of year renewal season.

As the world navigates major challenges, the transitions that are required to do this effectively are going to call on risk capital and the expertise of the global insurance and reinsurance industry, with its capacity, including ILS and alternative sources, seen as a crucial form of financing, according to S&P Global Ratings.

Speaking this morning at the 2024 Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous event, executives from Fitch Ratings said that with further improvements in fundamentals less likely now, moderate and gradual softening is now expected for property catastrophe rates and pricing.

Mereo Insurance, the Bermuda-based re/insurance start-up that counts former AIG CEO Brian Duperreault as its Chairman, has a strategy to work closely with third-party capital investors, is expected to be up and running for 1/1, with equity and seed capital being finalized for its first insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund, Artemis has learned.