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Reinsurance broker news, analysis and insight, covering reinsurance broker market trends and opportunities.
Reinsurance brokers have a core role to play in the market, so we frequently cover news related to their activities and also interview senior reinsurance broking executives as well.
Lockton Re SAGE 2.0 launches with new analytics features
7th September 2022
Global insurance broker Lockton's dedicated reinsurance division, Lockton Re, has launched Lockton Re SAGE 2.0, its next level of analytics features and tools as part of Lockton Re’s proprietary software platform, the company highlighted. Lockton Re SAGE was designed to better help insurers understand risk impacts with a detailed and transparent ... Read the full article
Howden launches voluntary carbon credit insurance product to help scale market
7th September 2022
International re/insurance broker Howden has announced the launch of a carbon credit invalidation insurance solution to increase confidence in the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM). To develop the product, Howden worked with the carbon finance business, Respira International, and Nephila Capital, an investment manager specialising in reinsurance risk. They were also advised ... Read the full article
Aon combines expertise and tech under new STG division
7th September 2022
Global insurance and reinsurance broker Aon has unveiled its new Strategy and Technology Group (STG), designed to combine a broad range of insights and software solutions to assist P&C and life re/insurance clients develop flexible and resilient enterprise structures. According to the broker, STG brings together strategic consulting – including claims ... Read the full article
Howden RE and TigerRisk to launch $6bn global MGA business
6th September 2022
Howden RE and TigerRisk have announced the creation of Howden Tiger SabRE (SabRE), a new group combining their MGA operations and programme capabilities. SabRE will come into form following the completion of Howden Group Holdings’ (Howden) acquisition of TigerRisk, which is expected to close in Q1 2023, subject to regulatory approval. The ... Read the full article
Aon names Jim De Pre Senior Managing Director
5th September 2022
Aon Reinsurance Solutions, the reinsurance arm of global brokerage of Aon, has hired veteran Jim De Pre to lead the Strategy - Accident & Health team in the US as Senior Managing Director. De Pre has over 40 years of industry experience, with his most recent role being at Guy Carpenter. He ... Read the full article
Marsh McLennan Agency acquires Steinberg & Associates
5th September 2022
Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA), the US middle market subsidiary of global insurance broker Marsh, has announced the acquisition of Steinberg & Associates, Inc., an independent agency based in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Steinberg & Associates was founded in 1969, offering employee health and benefits, estate planning, and private client services to midsize ... Read the full article
Nick Pritchard joins Aon in Bermuda retro broking role
2nd September 2022
Nick Pritchard has joined Aon as managing director for property retrocession in Bermuda. The move was announced on LinkedIn, with Pritchard joining the firm after two years with Vantage Risk Companies as its SVP and head of property catastrophe. Prior to Vantage, Pritchard spent three-and-a-half years at Neon, as the head ... Read the full article
Gallagher Re hires Emilie Desormeaux as Executive Director
2nd September 2022
Gallagher Re has appointed Emilie Desormeaux as Executive Director, where she will be based in Paris, France. She joins from reinsurance giant Swiss Re where she worked at for over 14 years. During her tenure at Swiss Re, Desormeaux served as a Casualty Underwriter and Client Manager for the French market. Prior to ... Read the full article
UK cyber market stable, trade credit facing challenges
2nd September 2022
The cyber market in the UK has remained “stable and modestly” favourable in this year’s second quarter, while the Trade Credit market has become more challenging in the same period, according to Aon’s latest Q2 Market Dynamics Outlook: The United Kingdom. According to the re/insurer, the cyber markets’ stable condition has ... Read the full article
European capital positions continue to strengthen: Gallagher Re
2nd September 2022
Gallagher Re says that the capital positions for European (re)insurers have continued to strengthen this year, with the average solvency for those it tracks improving to 235%, up from 222% in H1 2021. The firm said in a note that this level of sector solvency is comfortably above the c.200% upper ... Read the full article
Gallagher & Novidea to launch digital platform for specialty clients
1st September 2022
Broker Gallagher has partnered with global insurtech Novidea, to implement and tailor its insurance broking platform for its specialty client base. The platform will be extremely pioneering within the market, as it will revolutionise client service, and also cover every stage of the broking lifecycle, from enquiry and quotation to policy ... Read the full article
UK insurance market sectors stabilising, says Aon
1st September 2022
Aon’s latest Q2 Market Dynamics Outlook: The United Kingdom has cast an eye over the country’s moderate markets. The firm said that the property market continued to stabilise in Q2 following previous underwriting adjustments, improved insurer results, and a focus on growth. However, while upwards price adjustments continued, it said that ... Read the full article
WTW and Bupa partner to improve health insurance pricing
1st September 2022
Health insurance provider, Bupa UK is now using WTW’s Radar Live as its lead pricing platform after both companies announced their new partnership with the re/insurance broker. The platform incorporates analytical and modelling methods to help create health insurance price premiums faster for individual customers. According to the announcement, this leads to ... Read the full article
TigerRisk appoints Mitchell Rosenberg to partner and MD role
31st August 2022
TigerRisk Partners has appointed Mitchell Rosenberg to be a new partner and managing director of TigerRisk Capital Markets & Advisory (TCMA), its investment banking division. Rosenberg is joining the firm from Aon, where he held the role of managing director at Aon Securities. Prior to that he was an assistant vice president ... Read the full article
Gallagher Re hires Alexandre Delacroix to new role
31st August 2022
Gallagher Re has hired Alexandre Delacroix to the role of executive director within its EMEA West & South team. In his new Paris-based role, Delacroix will focus on a range of capital market activities, including ILS and collateralised reinsurance, and thus be part of Gallagher Re’s specialist ILS and capital markets ... Read the full article