reinsurance

Thierry Léger, the CEO of global reinsurer SCOR, said this morning that his company is preparing for a January 2026 reinsurance renewals that could be even more competitive than it was earlier this year.

Nephila Capital, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager arm of Markel, has written 75% more in property catastrophe reinsurance premiums in the second-quarter of 2025, as the ILS manager continues to do more with less since its integration into the Markel business.

Catastrophe data aggregator and industry-loss reporting service provider PERILS AG is to expand its coverage for severe convective storm (SCS) events and begin reporting insurance industry losses for SCS events in Europe, Japan and New Zealand.

Renewals and purchases of catastrophe retrocessional protection saw their pricing soften faster than property catastrophe reinsurance at the June and July 2025 mid-year renewal season, which tilted the market in the favour of retro buyers this year, analysts at Autonomous have highlighted.

Today’s soft market across insurance may be short-lived, as the global environment is volatile and systemic risks are rising, which means the opportunity for protection buyers may also not last, according to broker Aon.

Japan Post Insurance has now agreed its planned $2 billion investment into a new reinsurance co-investment vehicle, or sidecar, to gain access to the strategic returns from business activity of KKR’s U.S. life, retirement and annuities insurance and reinsurance company, Global Atlantic Financial Group.

The Natural Disaster Fund (NDF), the risk capital facility that allocates its funds to support parametric insurance arrangements and is managed by CelsiusPro’s Global Parametrics team, has increased its risk capital allocation to a Caribbean parametric hurricane product.

We’re waking to reports of Pacific basin-wide tsunami alerts having been issued by numerous countries after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake occurred near the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia this morning.

The Early Bird rate for our upcoming catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference, Artemis London 2025 expires at the end of this month, so register today to secure a ticket at the best possible price.

In an interview with Artemis, Terrence McLean, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SageSure, discussed the firm’s debut reinsurance sidecar transaction Seawall Re Ltd., stating that he thinks of it as the first in a series of additional transactions which has a direct focus on sideways and other perils.