Reinsurance News

Attitudes on pricing are generally seen as “bullish” as the January reinsurance renewals approach, with capacity availability and risk appetite seen as key factors, according to Head of Analytics at Howden unit HX, David Flandro.

Global reinsurance market participants are anticipating broad firming at the upcoming January 2022 renewal season, with retrocession and property catastrophe risks seen as areas in need of price improvements.

RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, the third-party capital management and insurance-linked securities (ILS) unit of Bermuda-headquartered reinsurance firm RenaissanceRe (RenRe), hired Lucy Briggs as Vice President and Head of Risk earlier this year.

According to CEO Jay Madhu, investors in the collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle of Oxbridge Re Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance firm, earned a 17% return for the year to end of May 2021.

The US commercial property insurance market has always been a good bellwether for broader conditions across insurance as well as reinsurance and after a catastrophe heavy third-quarter of 2021, the dynamics in that market continue to get more interesting.

In order to develop India’s International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) into a competitive global insurance and reinsurance hub, a committee has advised that offering regulated frameworks for insurance-linked securities (ILS) such as catastrophe bonds is critical.

Climate change and providing risk transfer products to protect against its effects and to aid the world’s climate transition, is the biggest single environmental, social and governance (ESG) related attribute and opportunity for the worlds non-life insurance and reinsurance industry, according to analysts at investment bank Jefferies.

Strategic Risk Solutions, Inc., an independent provider of insurance, reinsurance and captive management and consulting services, has acquired a segregated cell company in Barbados, increasing its range of options for those looking for structures to support insurance and reinsurance related transactions.

Robus, an insurance management, fiduciary and financial advisory firm that is part of the wider Ardonagh insurance and reinsurance Group, has received a green ESG kitemark accreditation for both its Protected Cell Company (PCC) and Incorporated Cell Company (ICC).

Underwriting firm Chaucer has highlighted unpredictable patterns in weather, citing the fact that now some 16% of hurricanes, tropical storms and depressions hit northern US states, compared to just 12% 40 years ago.