Alternative reinsurance capital

Global insurance and reinsurance broker Aon has announced that leader Joe Peiser has been appointed as the firm’s new CEO of Risk Capital, a role spanning across both commercial insurance and reinsurance broking responsibilities, with influence on insurance-linked securities and the mechanisms for delivery of risk capacity to support clients.

The reinsurance market has seen an increase in risk capacity from dedicated parametric underwriters and capital providers, according to reinsurance broker Gallagher Re, who outlined that as traditional reinsurance pricing begins to soften, parametric solutions remain a “competitive option” offering cedants a practical addition to their volatility protection toolkit.

Oxbridge Re Holdings Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance company, has confirmed its two tranche offering of tokenized reinsurance securities that will fund its collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle Oxbridge Re NS for the 2026/2027 reinsurance contract year, with 20% and 42% return targets.

As the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market looks to build on its recent strong performance and capitalise on opportunities that are being presented, the need for the sector to do so in a sustainable way came into focus at our ILS NYC 2026 conference held in New York last Friday.

The continued scaling of alternative, or third‑party reinsurance capital further augmented property catastrophe capacity and increased competitive pressure at the January 2026 renewals, according to S&P Global Ratings, who projects that alternative capital will continue to reach new highs as it complements traditional reinsurance capital.

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In the increasingly volatile world of catastrophe risk, the primary hurdle for third-party capital has rarely been the risk itself, but rather the tail; the years-long process of loss adjustment and trapped capital that follows a major event. However, CelsiusPro is making the case that parametric insurance offers a cleaner alternative for institutional investors, according […]

Kevin O’Donnell, the CEO of reinsurer and third-party reinsurance capital manager RenaissanceRe, said today that none of the firm’s investor supported joint-ventures entered 2026 any smaller than they were last year, leading to an expectation of relatively stable fee income ahead.

After Beazley rejected Zurich’s acquisition proposals last month and in 2025, the pair have now reached an agreement in principle on the key financial terms of a possible recommended cash offer, with Zurich lifting the offer to a total value of up to 1,335 pence per Beazley share.

RenaissanceRe, the global reinsurance company and third-party capital manager, established a new catastrophe bond managed account named the Stratos Fund in the second-half of 2025, raising $260.4 million for it, while increasing assets in other third-party capital and ILS vehicles and lifting fee income 31.8% in the fourth-quarter of the year.