Reinsurance News

An awaited consultation process on the regulatory framework for a Protected Cell Company (PCC) structure that can be used for collateralised reinsurance arrangements, including sidecars, and efficient insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance has now been launched by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market remains in a strong position, but expanding into international markets and less conventional perils will be critical for the market’s next stage of growth, according to executives at reinsurance broker Howden Re, who note that this expansion is vital both to unlock diversification benefits and to help close global protection […]

A new report from S&P Global Ratings highlights a structural shift in the sidecar market, as casualty reinsurance sidecars have grown to account for approximately 10% of total sidecar capacity. Driven by a wave of recent high-profile launches these vehicles are attracting alternative capital by offering returns largely uncorrelated with broader financial markets.

Munich Re, the German headquartered global reinsurance giant, has appointed property treaty underwriting specialist Lisa Benhalima as a Manager Structuring within its Global Insurance Linked Securities Solutions team.

Australian insurance giant Suncorp has extended the top of its main catastrophe tower slightly to $6.4 billion at the mid-year 2026 reinsurance renewals, while maintaining its retention and now having the benefit of the aggregate reinsurance arrangement it purchased earlier in the year to minimise exposure to frequency loss events.

The Catastrophe and Risk Solutions group at Verisk has estimated that economic losses from the June 24, 2026 earthquakes in Venezuela will likely exceed USD 10 billion, with a higher degree of uncertainty than usual in estimating the insured share of industry losses due to Venezuela’s macroeconomic conditions, elevated inflation, low insurance penetration, and sanctions-related […]

Even as spreads have compressed by roughly one-fifth and expected returns have fallen, Tom Wakefield, CEO of reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has said there is no sign of investor appetite retreating at this time.

Reinsurance capital reached a record high of $790 billion by the end of Q1 2026, but it was alternative or third-party reinsurance capital, so that deployed through insurance-linked securities and related collateralized structures, which was the sole driver of growth as it reached $141 billion, rising 4% from the end of the year, according to […]

Kingstone Companies, the New York and northeast US focused insurance group, has grown its catastrophe reinsurance limit again to secure a $500 million tower for 2026, while adding wildfire coverage for the first time and reporting that the risk-adjusted cost fell by more than 15%.

The amount of non-life alternative reinsurance capital from catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) grew by more than 5% just in the first-quarter of the year, with Gallagher Securities estimating $7 billion of incremental capital was added, to take non-life ILS capital outstanding to $142 billion at the end of Q1 2026.