risk retention

With 2025 marking the fifth consecutive year in which global catastrophe claims have exceeded $100 billion, analysts at J.P. Morgan emphasised that the impact on reinsurers has been less damaging, in the main because higher cedant retentions continue to shift a greater share of losses back to primary carriers.

Speaking during an analyst call for Hannover Re’s Q2 2025 financial results this week, Sven Althoff, Member of the Executive Board for Property & Casualty (P&C), explained that despite natural catastrophe pricing being under pressure, terms and conditions and importantly attachment points remain stable.

Smaller firms are expressing  more interest in retaining their own risk and a growing interest in alternative risk transfer vehicles such as captive structures, special purpose vehicles and risk retention groups, according to broker Marsh’s 2012 Captive Benchmarking Report. We don’t cover this type of alternative risk transfer on Artemis very often, but any trend […]