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).
White Mountains has marked-up the valuation of its stake in insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund manager and collateralised reinsurance underwriter Elementum Advisors, LLC, even though the proportion of the ILS manager that it owns had been reduced.
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We’ve learned that the hurricane Ian side pocket investment situation has improved considerably for some insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers, with a number of key exposures now failing to reach the levels of cedent loss needed to attach coverage in recent weeks.
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Fitch Ratings forecasts that property catastrophe reinsurance renewal rate increases will decelerate in 2024, with an average increase expected to be below 10% at the January renewal season.
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Acting as a front or transformer for insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds and investors is an increasingly important part of global reinsurance firm Hannover Re’s business and there is evidence these activities grew further for the company in the first-half of 2023.
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Recent results from major Italian primary insurance companies have clearly evidenced that reinsurance terms, conditions and higher attachments are driving higher retention of catastrophe losses, eroding insurer performance, Fitch Ratings has highlighted.
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Howden Tiger, the reinsurance broking and risk capital management arm of Howden, has strengthened its property retrocession broking team with the addition of Martin Ford, a long-standing specialist in the retro space.
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Marcel Grandi, Head of ILS Sourcing at insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance asset manager, Twelve Capital, expects price increases to be limited in 2024, but is positive for the future as reinsurers continue to cede a sizeable portion of their exposure to the retrocession market.
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The market is anticipating specialty insurance and reinsurance company Fidelis will benefit from recoveries under two of its Herbie Re catastrophe bonds, as losses from hurricane Ian and the Tukey earthquake are expected to erode some of the principal of two tranches of notes.
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Allied World Assurance Company (AWAC) has successfully priced its latest catastrophe bond, securing the upsized target for $275 million of reinsurance protection from its 2001 CAT Re Ltd. (Series 2023-1) renewal transaction, while the spread was priced roughly 14% below the mid-point of initial guidance.
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Allied World Assurance Company (AWAC) is another sponsor looking to upsize on its original ambitions, as the company is now seeking up to $275 million of reinsurance protection from its 2001 CAT Re Ltd. (Series 2023-1) renewal transaction.
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