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).
AXIS Capital, the global specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriter, is now aiming to secure an upsized $140 million of peak-peril catastrophe reinsurance protection from its new Northshore Re II Ltd. (Series 2022-1) catastrophe bond issuance.
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Global insurance and reinsurance company Everest Re is set for a successful new catastrophe bond issuance, with the Kilimanjaro III Re Ltd. (Series 2022-1) transaction now having priced at the upsized $300 million, with a coupon fixed at the mid-point of initial guidance.
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Florida’s property insurance market is in the midst of an inevitable hard-landing, but the legislative reforms passed recently are unlikely to go far enough and won’t solve the fundamental problem of litigation, according to Tony Rettino of ILS fund manager Elementum Advisors.
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Insurance and reinsurance broker Miller, the independent and private equity funded broking group, has now announced that recent insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused hire John Duda has now joined the company in Bermuda.
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Increased investor price discipline across insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance linked investments is helping to drive returns higher, but catastrophe bonds are the stand-out as the ILS market segment likely to grow in 2022, according to K2 Advisors.
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Global insurance and reinsurance company Everest Re is aiming to upsize its latest catastrophe bond issuance, with the new Kilimanjaro III Re Ltd. (Series 2022-1) transaction now targeting $300 million in industry loss based aggregate retrocession for the company.
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Elementum Advisors, LLC, the insurance and reinsurance linked asset manager, has added some new investors to its high-yield insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategy in 2022, allowing the investment manager to capitalise on reinsurance market dislocation, according to Tony Rettino.
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Capital strength will support global reinsurance firms through the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, according to Fitch Ratings, but a significant loss or number of major events could make things more challenging, something that the still limited amount of retrocession in the market could exacerbate, it seems.
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Specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriter the Canopius Group has entered the 144A catastrophe bond market for the first time, seeking $75 million or more in peak US catastrophe reinsurance protection with a debut Finca Re Ltd. (Series 2022-1) transaction.
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Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re appears to have had a very successful visit to the catastrophe bond market with its latest and US hurricane focused Matterhorn Re Ltd. (Series 2022-2) deal, upsizing the coverage it will provide to $200 million, while also getting the protection at lower than guidance pricing.
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