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.
Hannover Re reported a 48% increase in group profit for the first-quarter of 2026, revealing renewals growth of 5.6% for the year so far, while acknowledging that price pressures have the upper hand in property and casualty reinsurance.
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The insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investments portfolio managed by specialist pension investor PGGM on behalf of Dutch pension PFZW delivered a 12.4% return in USD for full-year 2025, while the portfolio assets ended the year at a valuation of just over US $8.9 billion.
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Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re has beaten analyst forecasts for group net income in the first-quarter of 2026, despite prioritising underwriting discipline and reducing its natural catastrophe volumes at renewals year-to-date.
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Global reinsurer SCOR has reported starting the year with higher net income and return on equity, while the company continues to prune in certain liability classes, but maintains its stance on price adequacy in property catastrophe risks by growing into what it acknowledges is a competitive marketplace.
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Slide Insurance Company expects to have around $3.5 billion of catastrophe reinsurance limit in-force for a first event in 2026, an increase of roughly $1 billion and CEO Bruce Lucas has said that risk-adjusted rate decreases for its renewal are “substantial” so far.
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US primary insurer Allstate added more protection to its per-occurrence Nationwide Excess Catastrophe Reinsurance Program, lifting the top of the tower a new high of $11.5 billion at its recent renewal, while also securing a new $1 billion aggregate excess reinsurance arrangement as well.
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Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. has now fully-placed its catastrophe reinsurance for the coming year and has secured a further $352 million of multi-year cover to extend its catastrophe protection, with the firm’s CEO Stephen Donaghy saying he was pleased with the market support.
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Property catastrophe reinsurance rates-on-line continued to fall at the April 1st renewals and for the United States, broker Guy Carpenter’s index now shows that 2026 is experiencing the sharpest fall in US property cat pricing since 2014.
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Alternative reinsurance capital is reinforcing current reinsurance market trends as total non-life insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets reached $135 billion at year-end 2025, a 19% increase year-on-year.
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The outstanding market for collateralized reinsurance sidecar structures grew by more than $5 billion in capacity terms over the course of full-year 2025, with casualty and non-catastrophe vehicles a key driver of sidecar market expansion, Aon Securities has said.
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