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).
The CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd., the stock exchange listed retrocession focused strategy managed by Markel CATCo and in run-off at this time, is continuing to benefit from reducing loss exposure and releases of side pocketed investment capital.
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RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda headquartered reinsurer and third-party reinsurance capital manager, has pre-announced an expectation that losses from winter storm Uri will have a net negative impact of around $180 million on its first-quarter 2021 results.
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Everest Re, the globally active insurance and reinsurance company, has now finalised the pricing on the latest $650 million of fully-collateralized retrocessional reinsurance protection from its Kilimanjaro Re catastrophe bond program at the low-end of already reduced guidance.
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James Vickers, Chair of Willis Re International, has said that insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors have showed increasing maturity at recent reinsurance renewals, as demand proved strong at 4/1.
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Elementum Advisors, LLC, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund management and collateralised reinsurance underwriter, has announced the promotion of Lynette Pirilla Walter to Chief Legal Officer of the asset manager and the hiring of John Drnek of RenaissanceRe’s as General Counsel for its Bermuda operation.
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While widespread subrogation related to winter storm claims payments against Texas energy organisation the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) hasn’t emerged and in some quarters is thought unlikely, one insurer is seeking to hold ERCOT accountable for some of its costs from the freeze event in the State.
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Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited has returned to the catastrophe bond market for a renewal of its international multi-peril coverage from the capital markets, seeking to sponsor a $225 million Kendall Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) transaction.
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Global insurance and reinsurance firm Everest Re now looks set to secure $650 million of fully-collateralized retrocessional reinsurance protection from its latest visit to the catastrophe bond market.
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Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the Bermuda based reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused investment fund manager, has announced a senior property treaty reinsurance hire in Lancashire’s Andy Richardson.
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The influence of climate change is becoming more visible in the increasingly frequent occurrences of so-called secondary peril events, according to Swiss Re’s Group Chief Economist, who also warns of the potential for peak perils to follow a similar trend of rising loss costs.
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