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).
We will be holding our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference in London on Tuesday September 3rd, but the Super Early Bird rate for tickets to Artemis London 2024 will end later this week, so we urge you to register soon to secure the best price attendance.
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Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund manager, has announced the hiring of Dia Bhatia from investment bank J.P. Morgan, who joins the firm as an Associate in its Business Development and Investor Relations team.
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With reports suggesting a more balanced and stable retrocession renewal at the mid-year, broker Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions unit has said that a number of major ILS markets successfully raised new capital to deploy into mid-year retro deals.
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While the catastrophe bond market has been flying in 2024, with records falling and a significant half-year total of $12.6 billion issued, analysts at investment bank J.P. Morgan rightly point out that the cat bond market alone is not bringing significant net-new reinsurance capital to the market.
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Despite the fact catastrophe bond spreads widened considerably in May 2024, the Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index still managed a positive return for the month, helped by the returns of collateralised reinsurance and retrocession investments from the private ILS funds it tracks.
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Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, has continued to add more capital to its mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategies in the last quarter of record, reaching over $4.4 billion in net assets across these registered funds by the end of April this year.
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There was increased demand for retrocessional protection around the mid-year reinsurance renewals, as existing buyers sought to purchase more retro and some historical buyers returned to the market, according to Guy Carpenter.
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With global political instability spelling a rise in Strike, Riot, and Civil Commotion (SRCC) events, PCS (a division of Verisk) has highlighted the urgent need for a robust risk assessment and transfer tool or, SRCC index.
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NormanMax Insurance Holdings, the US based parametric insurance and reinsurance group launched by former Universal founder and CEO Bradley Meier, has begun offering a parametric retrocession product that is underwritten via its recently launched Lloyd’s syndicate.
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SCOR, the France-headquartered global reinsurance company, continues to build out its risk partnership and third-party capital capabilities, with the latest hire to come to light being Tony Nguyen, an experienced insurance-linked securities (ILS) structuring and investment banking executive who joins the reinsurer from Goldman Sachs.
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