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).
Investors are becoming increasingly engaged in understanding how climate change could affect portfolios of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and the work that is being done at investment managers to understand that, with many taking the time to “come back to the table”, according to Aeolus Capital Management’s Frank Fischer.
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Global insurance and reinsurance firm Everest Re is expanding its use of insurance-linked securities (ILS) investor capital, with its third-party capital venture Mt. Logan Re Ltd. a core component of the firm’s efforts to lower its catastrophe exposures, according to John Modin, President of Mt. Logan Re.
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France headquartered global reinsurance company SCOR is back in the capital markets with a new Atlas Capital Reinsurance 2022 DAC (Series 2022-1) catastrophe bond through which it is seeking at least $150 million of international multi-peril retrocessional protection.
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Florida’s lawmakers are set to focus on affordability of property insurance for citizens of the state at the upcoming Special Session, with tackling fraud and abuse of assignment of benefits (AOB) both key areas to reform, according to the states CFO Jimmy Patronis.
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As the Florida market continues to grapple with its challenges, even with the promise of some legislative change being on the horizon through the upcoming Special Session, still carriers are pushing hard for steep rate rises in order to restore profitability.
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The Florida property insurance market crisis that has unfolded through recent years won’t be fixed by minor reforms to the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (FHCF), according to Demotech President and Co-Founder Joseph Petrelli.
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The number of litigated property insurance claims at Florida’s largest P&C insurers rose again in the month of April 2022, with the total now back at levels only seen prior to the enactment of the SB76 reforms, according to CaseGlide.
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The mismatch between supply and demand in the catastrophe bond market persists and could now become accentuated, as the market pipeline of new cat bond deals continues to expand.
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TransRe’s new catastrophe bond has become the latest to see its prices rise above initial guidance, with all three tranches of the Bowline Re Ltd. (Series 2022-1) cat bond deal having their coupons elevated while being marketed to investors.
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Mt. Logan Re Ltd., the collateralized reinsurance sidecar-like and insurance-linked securities (ILS) vehicle operated by re/insurer Everest Re, has announced the hiring of experienced pension investor in ILS, the PGGM employee Youssef Sfaif, as its new COO.
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