Reinsurance News

Reinsurance sidecars remain a key theme in 2026, with third-party capital deployment holding broadly stable despite a rapidly evolving landscape of perils and structures, according to Aon Securities, the broker-dealer and investment banking arm of the broking firm.

African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC Ltd.) the financial affiliate and parametric insurance underwriting entity of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group, has appointed David Maslo as its permanent CEO, following his successful tenure as interim leader during a period of significant transformation for the company.

Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has published its third industry loss estimate for the Victoria Bushfires which took place during the period of January 7th to 13th, 2026, with the insured industry loss now standing at AU$860 million.

A new insurer has been launched supported by third-party capital from investors and asset managers KKR-backed Kilter Finance and Blue Owl Capital, with newly rated WoodStar Reciprocal Exchange set to provide dedicated underwriting capacity through the Accelerant Risk Exchange.

Against the softening property catastrophe market, casualty remains the most focal alternative within the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, but also the hardest to successfully close, according to Ledger Investing, who reports that while capital is actively seeking diversification, casualty rate adequacy remains intact, and the market is working deliberately to standardise.

Market conditions remained generally favourable for buyers of non-marine retrocession at the July renewals, according to reinsurance broker Gallagher Re, who highlights in its latest 1st View report, that catastrophe rates fell by up to 20% for loss free accounts.

For casualty reinsurers, managing risk effectively requires constant alignment across the entire value chain. Yet, traditional reporting methods and disconnected systems frequently cause reporting delays that can hurt capital efficiency. Given this, Peter McKelvy, Co-Founder of Northern Re, speaks to Artemis to discuss how the company’s platform updates models instantly to eliminate this information lag.

With capacity constraints likely to limit the insurance industry’s ability to fully insure hyperscale data centre projects, given their scale and complexity, a new report from S&P notes that this will drive greater use of self-insurance through captive insurers, and potentially, alternative capital such as insurance-linked securities (ILS).

France headquartered global reinsurance company SCOR has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Japanese insurer Japan Post Insurance on the establishment of a reinsurance investment structure, which will feature subject business from both companies and be invested into by Japan Post Insurance.

Arch Reinsurance Group, the reinsurance underwriting arm of global re/insurer Arch Capital Group, has promoted William Soares to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Arch Reinsurance Ltd. in Bermuda, and Jon Schriber to CEO of Arch Reinsurance Company in the U.S., effective immediately.