Hannover Re Capital Partners

While Hannover Re has expanded its range of insurance-linked securities services and facilitation, responding to market demand, the company sees collateralised fronting as the centrepiece of this capital market focused aspect of its global reinsurance operations, executives Silke Sehm and Patrick Horstmann told us in an interview.

Hannover Re continued to grow the volumes of its activities as a key insurance-linked securities (ILS) market facilitator in 2025, with securitised reinsurance volumes expanding and collateral furnished for fronted ILS arrangements growing as well.

Global reinsurer Hannover Re’s Bermuda-based insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform, Hannover Re Capital Partners, started writing business at the January 1st, 2026, reinsurance renewals, and Sven Althoff, Member of the Executive Board for Property & Casualty, has described the venture’s start as “truly diversified”.

With global reinsurance firm Hannover Re now having licensed its new insurance-linked securities (ILS) operation Hannover Re Capital Partners (HCP) in Bermuda, the company has revealed that Bermuda P&C leader Michael Eberhardt takes on the CEO position while Head of ILS Patrick Horstmann is a Director of the new unit.

Former Hiscox ILS executive Aaron García Ehrhardt has now confirmed his new role being as the Head of Capital & Underwriting at Hannover Re Capital Partners (HCP), the global reinsurance firm’s recently established Bermuda-based insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform.

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.

Having begun the process to establish a Bermuda based insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform named Hannover Re Capital Partners, global reinsurance firm Hannover Re is having “very positive” investor conversations so far, Executive Board Member Silke Sehm said today in Monte Carlo.

Hannover Re, the global reinsurer, is establishing a Bermuda based insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform named Hannover Re Capital Partners, as it looks to round-out its offering to ILS investors and the market, while creating a new avenue to manage and deploy third-party capital to augment its business activities, we understand.