Third-party reinsurance capital news

Swiss Re’s CEO Andreas Berger said the reinsurance company is focused on amplifying the core of its business to deepen its relevance, citing leverage from alternative capital, a need to reimagine the value-chain, the role of artificial intelligence and the importance of disciplined cycle management at this time.

Swiss Re has reported strong profits and hitting its financial targets for 2025, as well as a relatively stable premium volume for the key January reinsurance renewals. Demonstrating the profitability of the reinsurance business the company will now return more capital to its shareholders, but is a second major player to opt for less retrocession […]

Munich Re has demonstrated the power of a large diversified reinsurance and insurance group in beating its profit target for 2025, while showing its desire to retain more of the economics of its re/insurance business by slashing its retrocession arrangements and scrapping its collateralized reinsurance sidecar programme.

While the insurance-linked securities (ILS) business at Hiscox Capital Partners has seen its headline assets under management (AUM) figure rise, this underplays the fact deployable ILS capital has risen more thanks to returns of older capital being outpaced by new flows, and Hiscox Group’s CEO believes the deployable total will keep growing.

Hiscox Capital Partners, the division of Hiscox Re that encompasses insurance-linked securities (ILS) investments and quota-share partnerships, lifted its ILS assets under management (AUM) to $1.5 billion at January 1st 2026, as $330 million of inflows over the last year served to increase deployable capital for the unit.

With Arundo Re recently completing its eighth vintage of its 157 Re reinsurance sidecar, Mathieu Halm, Board Secretary and Chief Retrocession & Alternative Capital Officer of the firm recently told Artemis how the vehicle has become a reliable and central alternative capital vehicle for the firm, and how the company sees it as one of […]

QBE, the global re/insurer, sees alternative reinsurance capital as an important lever to allow the company to deliver sustainable returns in the mid-teens, according to its CEO Andrew Horton and CFO Chris Killourhy, with recent catastrophe bond and casualty sidecar initiatives seen as early deals to help in building a profile within ILS markets.

AXIS Capital, the global specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriter, has put a new reporting line in place for its insurance-linked securities (ILS) division AXIS ILS, with Group Chief Underwriting Officer Dan Draper adding that to his responsibilities.

Hiscox Re has announced the launch of Hiscox Capital Partners, which is set to bring together under a single structure all the capital partnership activity the organisation has managed for nearly two decades, including third-party capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS).

AXIS Capital continues to leverage alternative capital and partner with insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors, with these activities generating attractive fee income in 2025. While a new structure established for 2026 shows that its casualty sidecar Monarch Point Re remains a core focus for the company.