casualty reinsurance

QBE Re, the international reinsurance arm of the global insurance group, has sponsored its first casualty reinsurance sidecar vehicle, securing over $550 million in fully collateralised quota share reinsurance through George Street Re, with the transaction backed by institutional investors Culpeper Capital Partners and Calidris Investment Partners.

In order for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market to succeed and truly compete with traditional reinsurance capacity, it must expand into casualty, which is why Ecclesia Re, the specialist reinsurance broking arm of Ecclesia Group, is placing such strong emphasis on this area.

Global broker Aon and risk modelling, data and analytics specialist Moody’s have said that they see the annual premiums from the casualty catastrophe reinsurance market as a potential $5 billion opportunity, with a named peril focus seen as the best way to foster development of the segment.

Fleming Insurance Holdings, a capital solutions provider with a casualty focused insurance-linked securities (ILS) offering, has launched a new technology and AI-analytics platform named REvolve™, that it says facilitates smooth, recurring transfer of liabilities and enhances its casualty ILS offering.

Global broker Aon and risk modelling, data and analytics specialist Moody’s Insurance Solutions have announced an expanded casualty reinsurance collaboration, with part of the goal being to help capital more efficiently allocate to casualty risk.

For full-year 2024, AXIS Capital ceded $323 million of prospective reinsurance premiums to its Monarch Point Re casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform, which was an increase of 13% over the prior year. In addition AXIS earned an increased level of fees and commissions from the ILS structure.

AXIS Capital, the specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has registered a fourth collateralized insurer class of company in Bermuda to support further expansion of its Monarch Point Re casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform in 2025.

Specialty Risk RE (SRR), a non-cat property and casualty focused collateralised reinsurer launched in 2024, has successfully closed an initial $50 million institutional funding round, led by private equity firm NMS Capital Group.

Moody’s Corporation has taken a significant step to expand its risk analytics capabilities for the global insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) industry, acquiring Praedicat, a specialist in casualty and liability risk modelling.

Insurer and reinsurer Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, and asset manager PIMCO, have announced the launch of Pando Re Ltd., a Bermuda-based, casualty focused collateralised re/insurer that act as a reinsurance sidecar and help to drive growth of third-party capital and fee income for Aspen Capital Markets.