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).
SCOR, the France-headquartered global reinsurance company, is now targeting lower pricing for its latest catastrophe bond sponsorship, with the price guidance reduced for the $75 million of multi-peril fully-collateralized retrocession it seeks from the Atlas Capital DAC (Series 2026-1) issuance, Artemis can report.
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Nectaris Re Ltd., the Class 3A Bermuda-based rated reinsurance platform backed by specialist insurance linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investment manager Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP, continued to report solid underwriting results for a third consecutive year in 2025, according to a rating affirmation from AM Best.
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Aon, the global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has announced that it has appointed both Jimmy Mitchell and Adam Rimmer as brokers within the firm’s Global ReSpecialty team, effective immediately.
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Global reinsurer Swiss Re has now secured $250 million of US named storm per-occurrence based retrocessional protection through its Matterhorn Re Ltd. (Series 2026-2) catastrophe bond transaction, while the spreads settled at the low-end of reduced guidance, Artemis has learned.
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Korean Re, the global reinsurance company headquartered in the country of its name, is back to sponsor its second catastrophe bond, seeking $75 million or more in catastrophe retrocession and introducing parametric Israel earthquake as a new covered peril to this Solomon Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) deal, Artemis can report.
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The insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investments portfolio managed by specialist pension investor PGGM on behalf of Dutch pension PFZW delivered a 12.4% return in USD for full-year 2025, while the portfolio assets ended the year at a valuation of just over US $8.9 billion.
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Swiss Re is now targeting lower pricing for its latest catastrophe bond sponsorship, while the target remains to secure $250 million of US named storm per-occurrence based retrocessional protection through the Matterhorn Re Ltd. (Series 2026-2) transaction, Artemis has learned.
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White Mountains reported that the Outrigger Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar, which supports its P&C insurance and reinsurance subsidiary Ark, continued to deliver positive income through the first-quarter of 2026, as even without having made a fresh sidecar investment for this year, benefits still flow for the company.
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Global reinsurer SCOR has reported starting the year with higher net income and return on equity, while the company continues to prune in certain liability classes, but maintains its stance on price adequacy in property catastrophe risks by growing into what it acknowledges is a competitive marketplace.
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We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, Artemis London 2026. We return to London on September 1st, for another full-day of in-depth discussion and debate about the ILS market, as well as valuable networking. Register to attend here.
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