Monte Carlo Reinsurance Rendez-Vous news

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.

Jean-Jacques Henchoz, Chairman of the Board of BMS Group and former CEO of Hannover Re, gave an impassioned plea for the reinsurance industry today to make inroads into narrowing protection gaps, seeing innovation, technology and a culture of experimentation as key, while the capital markets are a vital tool to achieve this.

While the property catastrophe reinsurance market entered into a phase of measured softening in the first half of 2025, Klaus Sapelza, CUO of Lumen Re has highlighted how this is not a full pricing reversal, while also stating that maintaining strict selectivity in risks underwritten remains critical in the current environment.

Yesterday in Monte Carlo, Munich Re board member Stefan Golling told a media briefing that alternative reinsurance capital and the catastrophe bond market in particular, are not helping to narrow the insurance protection gap, while highlighting the reinsurers’ independence from third-party capital.

As PwC released its sixteenth Global Insurance Run-Off Survey report today, we took a look at what the legacy reinsurance sector is saying about the growing use of alternative capital in the space, as well as how legacy solutions are now serving insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds and investors as well.

Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter is anticipating rising demand for capacity across reinsurance and retrocession markets at the January renewals, but against a backdrop of softening where they will be looking for markets to offer more to clients, through improved pricing and terms.

Speaking at global reinsurer SCOR’s briefing at RVS 2025 in Monte Carlo, Jean-Paul Conoscente, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SCOR Global P&C, said that the firm will continue to sponsor catastrophe bond issuances regardless of the market cycle.

Speaking today at a briefing held in Monte Carlo at the Rendez-vous event, Angela Yeo, Senior Director, Analytics at global ratings agency AM Best has highlighted how investors’ appetite for catastrophe bonds has helped the space continue to grow.

For the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset management sector, operational capabilities are going to be key, while the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) means it must be considered, Dr. Urs Ramseier, CEO of Twelve Securis told Artemis in an interview just before the Monte Carlo Rendez-vous event.

Speaking in Monte Carlo today at a S&P Global Ratings briefing during the annual reinsurance event, Maren Josefs, Credit Analyst at S&P Global, said it may be time to rethink the name alternative capital, as it was really always designed to complement the traditional reinsurance market and in recent years has become increasingly aligned and […]