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).
Hong Kong headquartered global reinsurer Peak Reinsurance Company (Peak Re) has raised its target for its first ever catastrophe bond, with the Hong Kong domiciled Black Kite Re Limited (Series 2022-1) issuance now aiming to secure up to $150 million of retrocession for the company.
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Global reinsurance company SCOR has now secured $240 million of retrocessional catastrophe protection from its new Atlas Capital Reinsurance 2022 DAC (Series 2022-1) catastrophe bond, Artemis can reveal.
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Florida’s Legislature made progress on some of the property insurance reform bills that were heard by a committee yesterday, moving them on to the Senate, but the details underlying the reforms will matter for the reinsurance market and the prospects of meaningful change.
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Driving home the seriousness of the situation in Florida’s property insurance market today, the sponsor of one of the bills being discussed at the special legislative session in Tallahassee said on the floor that some carriers in the state are “on life support.”
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Industry contacts have been raising concerns over the weekend, that proposed property insurance related legislation set to be raised during Florida’s special session of the legislature this week will not go far enough on litigation and won’t do enough to bring reinsurance market confidence back to the state.
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France headquartered global reinsurance company SCOR has raised the target size for its new Atlas Capital Reinsurance 2022 DAC (Series 2022-1) catastrophe bond to as much as $250 million, while the price guidance has been raised almost 12%.
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An opportunity for investors to enter or upsize allocations to the catastrophe bond asset class at a time of near-record high spreads could persist right through into the third and fourth quarter of the year, according to Leadenhall Capital Partners.
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The Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis expects the special session of the legislature will deliver “really significant reforms” to Florida’s property insurance sector, that he believes can stabilise the marketplace there.
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For investors considering entering the catastrophe bond market, or increasing their allocations to it, during this period of multi-year high cat bond spreads, “speed is of the essence” according to investment manager Twelve Capital, as this opportunity won’t last for long.
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Global reinsurance firm TransRe has now secured its new Bowline Re Ltd. (Series 2022-1) catastrophe bond at a slightly below target $165 million in size, while all three tranches of notes seeing their coupons priced above the initial guidance levels.
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