property catastrophe

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.

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.

Speaking today at a briefing held in Monte Carlo at the Rendez-vous event, Fitch Ratings analysts said the expectation is that property catastrophe reinsurance rates will keep softening and attachments may decline somewhat, but through this they anticipate discipline from the ILS investor base.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda headquartered reinsurance company and third-party capital manager, has announced the expansion of Adria Da Breo Richards’ role to include management of its Property Cat Assumed Retro portfolio, alongside her current role overseeing property catastrophe reinsurance portfolios for global clients.