MGA – Managing General Agent news

Rating agency AM Best has indicated in a new report that fronting companies are expected to engage more frequently with the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market to drive capacity diversification using catastrophe bonds, sidecars and collateralized reinsurance structures.

Speaking during the Chubb first-quarter earnings call today, CEO Evan Greenberg called out supply-demand factors related to capital in the insurance and reinsurance industry, as well as high levels of intermediation cost, as softening the property insurance market at a pace he called “dumb”.

The recent launch of NovaCore’s new collateralized reinsurance sidecar NovaRe, backed by alternative investment firm New Mountain Capital, LLC, through the establishment of VictoryRe, reflects New Mountain’s conviction in specialty insurance and aligns with its strategy for building integrated and scaled businesses, Steve Klinsky, CEO and Founder has said.

Novacore, an independent managing general agent (MGA), has secured collateralized reinsurance support from a new sidecar structure backed by New York headquartered alternative investment firm New Mountain Capital, LLC, which alongside its affiliates has around $60 billion in assets under management.

Looking ahead to 2026, Michael van der Straaten, CEO of Antares Global, a London-based specialty re/insurer, outlined that the company is projecting that alternative capital, captives, and new structures will continue to play a key role towards shaping the specialty re/insurance market throughout next year.

As momentum continues to build within the reinsurance sidecar market, these structures are increasingly viewed as an attractive capital sourcing opportunity for managing general agents (MGAs), and investment for ILS managers, hedge or pension funds, and family-office investors, according to Willis Re.

Pine Walk Capital Limited, the specialist managing general agent (MGA) platform and wholly owned subsidiary of The Fidelis Partnership, has launched Carnovis Specialty Limited as a new Alternative Risk Transfer MGA, that also has a remit to underwrite business for third-party capital providers, including from the capital markets.

Alternative risk and reinsurance capital sources are playing a growing role in helping US managing general agents (MGA) grow their businesses, while also being present in their underwriting specialties and a new report from Conning says 51% of MGAs saw ILS funds providing capacity in their markets.

Expanding use of third-party capital, reinsurance sidecars and partnerships with insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors is opening up additional sources of capital for managing general agents (MGA’s), which broker Gallagher Re says helped replace capacity from major reinsurers that have reduced their participation in the MGA marketplace.

According to broking group Howden, inflows are accelerating in ILS arrangements for casualty, managing general agents (MGAs), cyber insurance-linked securities (cyber ILS) and reinsurance sidecars, as capacity providers look to grow existing premium pools.