Reinsurance News

Arch Re, the reinsurance underwriting arm of global re/insurer Arch Capital Group, has hired Nicole Chase who was most recently at Everest’s third-party capital and ILS platform Mt. Logan, as Deputy General Counsel for Arch Re Capital Partners & Reinsurance.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, had another strong year for its reinsurance investment strategies and ventures in 2024, which CEO Ross Stevens describes in his latest investor letter while also explaining some of what makes the firm so interesting.

An easing of conditions in the retrocession market has helped to bolster capacity in advance of the January 1st 2025 reinsurance renewals, resulting in a situation where capital was more than adequate to meet growing client demand, broker Aon has said today.

Dedicated reinsurance capital grew by 6.9% over the course of 2024, but alternative capital that largely represents the capacity deployed by insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers and through other ILS structures expanded slightly faster by 7% to reach $107 billion this year, according to Guy Carpenter and AM Best.

Munich Re has been back in the capital markets to secure quota share based retrocession and to start the 2025 sidecar arrangement for the reinsurer, its Eden Re II Ltd. collateralized reinsurance vehicle has issued $64.5 million of Series 2025-1 Class A notes, which is the largest Class A tranche from the structure since 2019, […]

Strong appetites from traditional reinsurance and alternative capital providers have resulted in excess capacity that has served to drive loss-free property catastrophe rates down between 5% and 15% at the January 1st 2025 renewals, according to Guy Carpenter.

Having seen the volume of premiums ceded to its Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar shrink during the first-half of this year, US headquartered insurance holding company W. R. Berkley Corporation caught up a little through the third-quarter, suggesting a change in timing may have driven part of the H1 decline seen.

According to new survey data collected by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance companies made increased use of industry-loss warranties (ILW’s), quota share arrangements and retrocession in 2023.

Analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW) are the second group to say that the returns generated from catastrophe reinsurance risk underwriting and capital allocation can remain strong, just so long as the industry remains disciplined on attachments, terms and conditions.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market should become more streamlined and professionalised if mergers and acquisitions (M&A) consolidate players, which Stonybrook Capital believes can help in attracting more institutional capital to the sector.