property catastrophe

Thierry Léger, CEO of global reinsurer SCOR, said this morning that it’s too early to tell whether property catastrophe reinsurance remains attractively priced at the end of year renewals, but his company is anticipating heightened competition in the market as capital build-up outstrips still-rising demand.

During global re/insurer Everest Group’s Q3 2025 earnings call today, Jim Williamson, President and CEO of the firm, outlined that the property catastrophe reinsurance market is still a very favourable environment.

In a recent report released by Goldman Sachs, analysts convey a distinct skepticism regarding the rational behaviour of the property catastrophe reinsurance market, emphasising that the structural conditions have not altered and that signs of undisciplined competition continue to exist, even in the absence of more favourable market dynamics.

In property catastrophe reinsurance “the bloom is off the rose” according to Rob Berkley, President and CEO of W. R. Berkley Corporation, who during an earnings call yesterday cautioned that while margin does remain in property cat, the potential for a “feeding frenzy” at the 1/1 2026 renewals may change that.

As investor appetite continues to broaden beyond property catastrophe, Vantage Risk is building a “mosaic of capital providers,” matching different investors with different risks, from short-tail cat exposures to long-tail casualty and credit lines, according to Chris McKeown, Chief Executive, Reinsurance, ILS, and Innovation.

Irrespective of lower claims experience over the last year in natural catastrophe reinsurance business, Hannover Re’s German subsidiary E+S Rückversicherung AG has said that it expects demand for property catastrophe reinsurance will continue to rise, while insurance-linked securities (ILS) business is also seen as an area of opportunity for the group.

AHJ Miller, the reinsurance division of independent broking group Miller, has announced the hiring of Marlon Williams, a property catastrophe reinsurance underwriting specialist from Hiscox Re & ILS as a Senior Broker based in Bermuda.

In a recent commentary authored by Schroders Capital’s Mark Gibson, Senior Investment Director ILS, and Christoph Hummel, Head of Analytics, ILS, both make the case for enhancing the trusted vendor models that underpin the catastrophe bond market with in-house expertise.

If the Atlantic wind season continues to be relatively benign for the global reinsurance market there is a chance property catastrophe rate declines at 1/1 2026 may reach into the 15% to 20% range, analysts at Citizens JMP Securities have said. But even then, given the high-level that rates are softening from, the situation is […]

In the property catastrophe reinsurance segment, German reinsurer Hannover Re is anticipating that competition will intensify further if the market only experiences losses that fall largely with their natural catastrophe budgets.