Renaissance Re news

Bermuda-based reinsurer and third-party reinsurance capital management specialist RenaissanceRe is not actively looking for new third-party investors in the current reinsurance market environment, according to CEO Kevin O’Donnell.

Bermuda-based reinsurer and third-party reinsurance capital management specialist RenaissanceRe has pulled back dramatically on catastrophe premiums written as the firm showed it will do whatever is necessary to avoid underpriced business.

Kevin O’Donnell, President and CEO of Bermuda-based reinsurer and third-party capital management specialist RenaissanceRe, said that at a macro level there is evidence of discipline being lost and risk being priced inadequately in the reinsurance market.

Bermuda-based reinsurance and third-party capital management specialists RenaissanceRe has given a clear example in its results of the increasing move by property catastrophe focused reinsurers to grow their business using specialty lines.

Bermuda-based reinsurance and third-party capital management specialists RenaissanceRe has revealed a renaming of the firms Upsilon retrocessional reinsurance sidecar for 2014, changing it to Upsilon Reinsurance Fund Opportunities Ltd.

Bermudian reinsurer RenaissanceRe is working to expand its activities in the retrocession space through the renewal and expansion of its Upsilon Reinsurance sidecar series, as it attempts to capture what it sees as attractive opportunities in the retro reinsurance market.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda-based property catastrophe reinsurance firm, stands better positioned than many of its competitors to weather the increasing competition from alternative sources of reinsurance capital, according to rating agency Moody’s Investors Service.

Interesting acquisition news today as the world’s largest reinsurance firm Munich Re announced it has reached an agreement with Bermudian reinsurer RennaissanceRe to acquire RenRe’s weather and weather-related energy risk management unit, RenRe Energy Advisors Ltd.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermudian reinsurance firm, has a long history of bringing third-party capital from institutional investors and joint-venture partners into its underwriting business. The reinsurer believes that its ability to play between a rated balance sheet and third-party capital is the optimal structure for most scenarios.

Bermuda based reinsurance firm RenaissanceRe has begun managing third-party investor capital in its Medici insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund for the first time. The RenaissanceRe Medici Fund Ltd. has existed since 2009 but has only invested RenRe’s own capital in catastrophe bonds until now.