Reinsurance News

Australian primary insurance group IAG has renewed its main catastrophe reinsurance tower to provide occurrence protection up to $10 billion, which is a reduction on the $10.5 billion tower purchased a year ago. But more notably, with a new volatility cover having been purchased last year the insurer has elected not to renew its aggregate […]

Equity analysts at UK investment bank Peel Hunt said they have factored in the potential for reinsurance rates to decline circa 35% over the next five years, explaining that it has factored a softening cycle into its outlook for the reinsurers it covers.

Having begun its Eden Re II Ltd. collateralized reinsurance sidecar placements with the largest Class A tranche of notes since 2019, global reinsurer Munich Re has now added the usual Class B issuance, but this tranche has been placed at just $85.5 million, which is the smallest size for that layer since right back in […]

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%.