Reinsurance News

Clarisse Kopff, Member of the Board of Management at Munich Re, expressed that the company expects pricing to be a key topic of discussion at the 2025 Baden-Baden Reinsurance Meeting next week, while also emphasizing that the reinsurer is ready to deploy more capital ahead of the January renewals with structures projected to hold.

Despite a series of large catastrophe events within the past year, such as Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and the Los Angeles wildfires, capacity in the reinsurance sector continues to build and prices should begin to get progressively softer, according to J.P. Morgan.

In its Q3 2025 Natural Catastrophe and Climate Report, reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has suggested that despite the manageable nature of catastrophe activity seen this year so far, the industry should continue to expect annual volatility in losses in the future.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital is shaping reinsurance pricing in the upper-layers, but how the year-end renewals will play out depends on the rest of hurricane season, the potential for any capital to be trapped and the amount of fresh inflows, according to Mike van der Straaten, the CEO of Antares Global.

From January 2026, Marsh McLennan will change its brand name to Marsh and its reinsurance broking arm Guy Carpenter will go to market after a transition period as Marsh Re from 2027. It’s not yet clear what this means for the specialist capital markets, investment banking and insurance-linked securities (ILS) broker-dealer arm GC Securities.

As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) industry meets in Bermuda over the next few days at the 2025 edition of the ILS Bermuda Convergence event, the organisers believe that the island is “uniquely positioned to host next-generation risk financing solutions” with its deep connectivity between reinsurance and ILS capital markets.

At the Hannover Re investor day this week Executive Board Member Silke Sehm explained that the establishment of Hannover Re Capital Partners unit is seen as a new sidecar business opportunity, that will help the reinsurance firm write more property catastrophe risk and earn additional fee income.

Broking giant Aon and fronting specialist Clear Blue Insurance have put their trading relationship first to reach an out of court settlement in relation to a lawsuit over the reinsurance letter of credit (LOC) fraud perpetrated by insurtech Vesttoo, Artemis has been told by a number of market sources.

NormanMax, the expansive US based parametric insurance and reinsurance group with a pure-parametric syndicate at Lloyd’s, has hired reinsurance and retro broking specialist Nick Griffiths to take on the role of Chief Revenue Officer, working across all the firms’ platforms.

According to Moody’s Ratings, issuance of higher expected loss (EL) catastrophe bonds has risen slightly in 2024 and 2025, as pricing for higher-severity risks has declined, encouraging investors to allocate more capacity to higher-frequency exposures.