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Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re remained over its large loss budget after the first-half of 2025, but the second-quarter was a far less impactful period than Q1 which resulted in the company only ceding EUR 21 million of natural catastrophe losses with insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital sources.

Kaith Re Ltd., the transformer vehicle owned and operated by global reinsurance firm Hannover Re, has issued a new private catastrophe bond arrangement, with a $19.05 million tranche of Seaside Re (Series 2025-61) notes issued and privately placed with investors, Artemis has learned.

Artemis has learned of a new $9.525 million private catastrophe bond that has been issued by German reinsurance company Hannover Re’s Bermuda-based structure Kaith Re Ltd., with the LI Re (Series 2025-1) deal assumed to be providing privately placed collateralized and securitized catastrophe reinsurance capacity for an unknown sponsor.

Hannover Re has reported going “significantly” above its large loss budget for the first-quarter of 2025 with the California wildfires the main driver at a cost of EUR 631 million, saying that it shared EUR 438 million of its large natural catastrophe losses with insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital sources during the period.

Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re has successfully sponsored a renewal of its landmark parametric cloud outage catastrophe bond, securing $20 million in retrocessional cyber reinsurance protection covering cloud outage events from a new Cumulus Re (Series 2025-1) issuance, with the support of Parametrix.

Sven Althoff, Member of the Executive Board for Property & Casualty (P&C) of large European reinsurer Hannover Re said this morning that catastrophe bonds have been the main area of expansion for the company within the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, noting that it is a “nicely growing part” of the firm’s business.

Global reinsurance company Hannover Re shared a much larger proportion of its large natural catastrophe losses with insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital sources in the final quarter of 2024, as the company ceded out more than half of its losses from hurricane Milton, with retrocessional arrangements seemingly playing a key role.

German reinsurer Hannover Re has today reported an inflation and risk-adjusted price decline on renewed business of 2.1% at the January 1st 2025 renewals, while the firm took advantage of greater demand for protection, growing its portfolio by 7.6% to more than EUR 11.03 billion.

Kaith Re Ltd., the transformer vehicle owned by global reinsurance firm Hannover Re, has issued seven series of private catastrophe bond notes, all Seaside Re (Series 2025), for a total of $84 million of notes sold to investors.

Global reinsurer Hannover Re has appointed Angela Jaramillo as an Associate Underwriter within its Capital Markets and insurance-linked securities (ILS) team.