Reinsurance renewals news and articles. Discussing the trajectory of reinsurance pricing and rates, as well as the flow of reinsurance capital at key market renewal seasons where many reinsurance programs are renewed and new reinsurance and retrocession capital and capacity is deployed.
The reinsurance cycle follows a number of key renewal seasons and the news and analysis below covers these important reinsurance market renewals.
The key reinsurance renewal periods are at January 1st, April 1st, June 1st and July 1st.
The January renewals have a particular focus on European programs, Asia Pacific (ex. Japan), casualty and specialty risks. The mid-year reinsurance renewals see a particular focus on U.S. property catastrophe reinsurance renewals, with Florida a particular focus in June. Japanese reinsurance program renewals are a major focus at April 1st.
Equity analysts from Autonomous have said in a new report that reinsurance capital appears disciplined as it eases into a soft market environment that may prove different this time, with capacity still being deployed at very attractive rates.
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Broking giant Aon has reported that its organic revenue generated from insurance-linked securities (ILS) placements grew by double-digits in the second-quarter of 2025.
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Speaking during a second-quarter earnings call today, Kevin O’Donnell, CEO of Bermuda based underwriter and third-party reinsurance capital manager RenaissanceRe, said that he doesn’t see issues with capital wanting to enter the sector regardless of return.
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Abundant capacity and increasing competition among reinsurers are leading to softer pricing during the June and July renewals, which supports Fitch Ratings’ expectation that market pressures will persist in affecting prices even after the peak in 2024.
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GC Securities, the investment banking and capital markets unit of reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, worked on a record number of catastrophe bonds in the first-half of 2025, according to the broker’s CEO Dean Klisura.
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US primary insurer Travelers has renewed substantially the same of its largest catastrophe reinsurance arrangements at the mid-year renewal season, although with some changes and a broadening of another of its covers, and perhaps a non-renewal of smaller treaties, while for the second year running the company has lifted its catastrophe bond attachment higher up […]
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You can now watch the full replay of our recent Artemis Live webinar, Catastrophe Bond and ILS Market Conditions at Mid-Year 2025, from which you can gain insights into the state of the market and expert opinion about renewal outcomes for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, as well as an outlook for the rest of […]
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The supply-demand balance for global non-marine retrocession continued to tilt in buyers’ favour, as cedants were presented with opportunities to expand their retro purchases at the mid-year reinsurance renewals and some market participants took a commercial view on collateral trapping, according to Gallagher Re.
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Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter has updated its property catastrophe reinsurance rate on line indices today and the latest data shows that after the April and mid-year renewals, property cat reinsurance rates have fallen 8.1% globally, 6.7% in the United States and a more significant 15.9% in the Asia Pacific region.
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Despite the fact property catastrophe reinsurance rates have moderated somewhat, analysts at Jefferies said the market remains attractive and they do not classify it as soft given pricing remains above 2022 levels at this time.
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