reinsurance

Jonathan Gray, Chief Underwriting Officer at Pool Re, the UK’s leading terrorism reinsurer, has emphasised that while its catastrophe bond activity is smaller than the traditional retrocession programme, it remains ‘absolutely central’ to the firm’s risk protection framework.

Descartes Underwriting, the parametric risk transfer specialist, has adopted mea Platform’s artificial intelligence (AI) products to enhance automation and data orchestration across its underwriting processes.

Arch Capital has successfully closed Bellemeade Re 2025-1 Ltd., the firm’s latest issuance of mortgage insurance-linked notes, which was priced at $199.3 million, while the firm also purchased a further $49,826,000 of mortgage reinsurance from a panel of reinsurers in tandem with this mortgage insurance-linked notes issuance.

Aspen Capital Markets, the third-party, ILS and alternative reinsurance capital management unit of global re/insurer Aspen, has continued to expand its business throughout the first nine months of 2025 with fee income generated by the unit increasing by 30% to $146 million.

Beazley has returned to the catastrophe bond market seeking $100 million of natural catastrophe reinsurance, once again using the Lloyd’s owned ILS structure to issue this London Bridge 2 PCC Limited (Fuchsia 3 – 2025-1) deal.

Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has reported a significant increase in its property and casualty result for the first nine months of 2025, as a much lower combined ratio, largely thanks to lower major losses, including natural catastrophes, puts the business on track to meet its target of a combined ratio of 85% or below […]

During the second-quarter of this year, White Mountains renewed its investment commitment to a collateralized reinsurance structure that provides sidecar-like support to managing general agent (MGA) Bamboo, but the size of the commitment has decreased as Bamboo now has growing third-party reinsurance support.

Investor appetite within reinsurance and insurance-linked strategies has expanded significantly over the last year, as market-responsive investors continue to deploy capital attracted by strong risk-adjusted returns and relative value compared to high-yield credit, which is currently trading at historically tight spreads, according to Cate Kenworthy, Managing Director, Howden Capital Markets & Advisory.

Liberty Mutual Insurance is back in the catastrophe bond market aiming to secure at least $125 million of indemnity based, multi-peril catastrophe reinsurance protection from the capital markets through a Mystic Re IV Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance, Artemis has learned.

In a recent panel discussing how reinsurance strategies can expand insurance access in India, Mahipal Reddy, Executive Director, International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), GIFT City, Gujarat, suggested that the analytical framework already set in place for catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) will drive the popularity of parametric solutions.