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).
Global reinsurance company Hannover Re could find some support from its capital markets backed K-Cessions quota share sidecar facility for certain non-war specialty lines exposures to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
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Pool Re, the UK government backed mutual terrorism reinsurer, saw significant interest and appetite from the capital markets for the issuance of its £100 million (USD 131m) Baltic PCC Limited (Series 2022-1) terror catastrophe bond, leading to an increase in the number of investors compared to its 2019 placement.
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According to recent data from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), use of insurance-linked securities (ILS) such as catastrophe bonds shrank among Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance firms between 2019 and 2020, but other often collateralized structures such as ILW’s and quota shares increased in prevalence.
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As conversations around cybersecurity and risk management increasingly occur at the board level, insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors and reinsurers should be excited, but must tread quickly and wisely, according to Thomas Nuth, Vice President of Marketing at DeNexus.
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Investors in the Markel CATCo retrocessional reinsurance investment funds have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the proposed and updated buyout terms, putting the process on course for a resolution and completion by the end of the month.
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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 appointed former AQR Re chairman Andrew J. Sterge as an independent non-executive director.
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Reflecting the significant growth in its use and management of third-party reinsurance capital over the last calendar year, PartnerRe, the Bermuda headquartered reinsurance company ceded a significant increase in premiums to its main insurance-linked securities (ILS) vehicle in 2021.
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Insurance and reinsurance broker Miller, the independent and private equity funded broking group, is seeking to build on its insurance-linked securities (ILS) activity in Bermuda with the hire of former Markel and Lodgepine employee John Duda.
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Tremor Technologies, the insurtech with a technology-based programmatic insurance and reinsurance risk transfer marketplace, has launched impressive specific functionality to allow buyers and sellers of retrocession to trade in UNL, parametric and blended products.
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UK government backed mutual terrorism reinsurance firm Pool Re has upsized its new Baltic PCC Limited (Series 2022-1) terror catastrophe bond to £100 million in size, helping it to increase the size of its retrocession tower to UK £2.5 billion at the renewal, up from £2.475 billion a year ago.
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