Reinsurance News

Property catastrophe reinsurance rates declined across the globe at the January 1st 2025 reinsurance renewals, with broker Guy Carpenter’s rate-on-line indices for the world, US, Europe and Asia Pacific all falling to start the new year.

Aetna, the health, medical and benefits insurance unit of CVS Health, is back in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market and seeking what could become its largest issuance in the long-standing Vitality Re series, as the firm’s sixteenth transaction launches with a target for $250 million of reinsurance from a Vitality Re XVI Ltd (Series 2025) […]

Competitive pricing for industry-loss warranty (ILW) protection has driven “considerable interest from a growing demographic of buyers” at the January 1st 2025 reinsurance renewals, according to broker Howden Re.

Last year, catastrophe data aggregator and industry loss estimate provider PERILS revealed an extension to its services, with a new methodology that combines its standard data methodology with that of CRESTA CLIX, which the firm’s CEO Christoph Oehy has said will simplify the process for risk transfer use-cases including catastrophe bonds and ILW’s.

The CRESTA organisation, which tracks catastrophe events outside the United States that have generated insurance industry losses of over US $1 billion, has reported the 2024 annual total as reaching US $18.2 billion, of which 78% came from flood events.

The softening of the property catastrophe reinsurance market seen at the key January 2025 renewals has been “entirely rational”, according to broker Gallagher Re, despite the fact the decline in risk-adjusted pricing was greater than many reinsurers had planned for.

At the January 2025 reinsurance renewals broking group Howden estimates that risk-adjusted pricing for property catastrophe treaty business declined by 8%, while retrocession pricing fell further by 13.5%.

Arch Re, the reinsurance underwriting arm of global re/insurer Arch Capital Group, has hired Nicole Chase who was most recently at Everest’s third-party capital and ILS platform Mt. Logan, as Deputy General Counsel for Arch Re Capital Partners & Reinsurance.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, had another strong year for its reinsurance investment strategies and ventures in 2024, which CEO Ross Stevens describes in his latest investor letter while also explaining some of what makes the firm so interesting.

An easing of conditions in the retrocession market has helped to bolster capacity in advance of the January 1st 2025 reinsurance renewals, resulting in a situation where capital was more than adequate to meet growing client demand, broker Aon has said today.