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.
French reinsurer SCOR’s asset management company, SCOR Investment Partners, has announced the expansion of one of its core insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategies, Atropos, with assets under management (AuM) now exceeding $2 billion.
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During a January 1st renewal season the reinsurer describes as a very challenging market environment for all participants, Hannover Re secured an increase in natural catastrophe retrocession, including the expansion of its capital markets backed K-Cessions quota share sidecar facility of almost 85% to $831 million, the biggest it’s ever been.
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Global reinsurance company SCOR purchased less catastrophe retrocession at the renewals given its own property catastrophe book shrank again, but still the diversification between traditional and ILS market retro sources was a benefit, Jean-Paul Conoscente, CEO of SCOR Global P&C said today.
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Global reinsurance group SCOR has shrunk its January 1st renewal book by roughly 12%, in terms of premiums underwritten, with actions taken to shrink its catastrophe exposure, but the firm remains confident the hard market will persist and it will have opportunities to deploy additional capital later in the year.
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Property catastrophe reinsurance rates-on-line in Continental Europe rose strongly for the second consecutive year at the January 1st 2023 renewal season, according to the latest data from broker Guy Carpenter.
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RenaissanceRe’s CEO Kevin O’Donnell is bullish about his firm’s prospects for 2023, particularly in property catastrophe reinsurance where he expects the reset, higher rate environment will persist throughout the year.
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Nephila Capital, one of the largest insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund management operations in the market, has added $200 million of new capital in time for deployment around the January reinsurance renewals, which took its assets under management to $7.4 billion.
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At the key January 1st reinsurance renewal season, RenaissanceRe, the global reinsurance firm and third-party capital manager, purchased more retrocessional protection that had been anticipated, according to CEO Kevin O’Donnell.
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The leadership at RenaissanceRe, the global reinsurance firm and third-party capital manager, expects fee income from the Capital Partners and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital management business will trend higher this year, as the unit’s scale and AuM increases.
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Property catastrophe reinsurance rates-on-line in the United States have reached a record-high, according to the latest data from broker Guy Carpenter.
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