All of our news and analysis on the retrocessional reinsurance marketplace.
Retrocession is effectively reinsurance for reinsurers, so a tertiary layer of risk transfer away from the original risk, if you consider primary, reinsurance and then retrocession.
As reinsurance is insurance for insurers, retrocessional, or retro, protection is reinsurance for reinsurers.
The retrocession reinsurance market has increasingly come to depend on the capital markets and insurance-linked securities (ILS).
As of mid-year 2022, global retrocession capacity has been estimated to be as high as $60bn, around $20bn of which is indemnity based and the rest in other formats.
The alternative capital markets and ILS funds, or investors, play a significant role in global retrocession, as too do instruments such as catastrophe bonds and industry-loss warranties (ILW).
Specialty insurance and reinsurance group Lancashire Holdings has expanded its property and casualty reinsurance book by 73% in the first-half of the year, while income earned from its third-party capital and collateralised reinsurance activities rose by 122% in the period.
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PartnerRe, the Bermuda headquartered, EXOR owned reinsurance company, has continued to add to its third-party capital under management in the last quarter, lifting the total to $1.1 billion.
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Tremor Technologies, the insurtech with a technology-based programmatic insurance and reinsurance risk transfer marketplace, has achieved a milestone in signing up all of the major reinsurance broking firms to use its platform.
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Positive momentum in the catastrophe bond market could drive issuance higher and lead to a record year in 2021, according to insurance and reinsurance broker Aon.
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Alternative reinsurance capital levels, largely from insurance-linked securities (ILS), has once again increased over the last quarter of record as reported by broker Aon, to reach $96 billion as of the end of March 2021, with collateralized reinsurance returning to growth.
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The ongoing and historic flooding across Europe is very unlikely to have an impact on the catastrophe bond market and insurance or reinsurance market losses will only be a fraction of the overall economic impact, showing the evident flood risk protection gap and the opportunity for cat bonds to help close it, according to Plenum […]
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While catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security (ILS) spreads have tightened during the second-quarter of 2021, hedge fund specialist manager K2 Advisors believes that they remain attractive relative to corporate credit and are a strategy investors should be focusing on.
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TransRe, the reinsurance underwriting brand of the Alleghany Corporation, has announced a new role for its third-party capital lead Craig Hupper, who will take on the new position of leading Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) at the reinsurance firm.
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Re/insurer MS Amlin intends to renew its novel Phoenix 1 Re reinsurance sidecar and expects the vehicle to become an important component of its strategy in the Asia region, according to William Ho, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MS Amlin Asia Pacific, and Head of Reinsurance for Asia, MS Amlin.
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Swiss Re has successfully upsized its new Vita Capital VI Limited (Series 2021-1) mortality catastrophe bond transaction to $120 million, just below its revised upper-end target for the deal.
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