Reinsurance News
1st October 2021
State-owned reinsurer China Re has secured $30 million of typhoon cover as the sponsor of the first catastrophe bond to be issued out of Hong Kong. According to reports from our ILS-focused sister publication, Artemis, the now-completed Greater Bay Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) cat bond was privately marketed to a ... Read the full article
23rd July 2021
China Reinsurance Group (China Re), the country’s largest reinsurer, has released a preliminary estimate of its results for the first half of 2021, which states that net profit will be up by between 55% and 65%. The company’s profits dipped by 24% to roughly RMB 2.467 billion (USD 380.8 million) ... Read the full article
25th February 2021
China Re has announced the resignation of its executive director Ren Xiaobing, whose departure from the company will come into effect from 25 February. In the official announcement from China Re, Xiaobing said that he has no disagreement with the board, and there are no other matters that should be brought ... Read the full article
2nd September 2020
Analysis of the Top 50 Global Reinsurance Groups reveals that, year-on-year, combined ratios trended higher for some of the largest players in the market in 2019 as underwriting profitability dipped for the cohort. When ranked by unaffiliated gross written premiums (GWP) in 2019, the top ten remains relatively unchanged year-on-year, ... Read the full article
1st September 2020
China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation has announced a 24% dip in net profit for the first-half of 2020 while gross written premiums (GWP) jumped by almost 21% in the period. Overall, the reinsurer's GWP reached RMB102.1 billion in H1 2020, with growth of 17.6% in P&C reinsurance, 31.4% in L&H reinsurance, and ... Read the full article
6th April 2020
China Reinsurance Corporation (China Re) has reported premium growth and a rise in net profit for 2019, driven in part by the strong performance of its P&C Reinsurance segment and the inclusion of Chaucer business. At RMB144,973 million, China Re's gross written premiums (GWP) increased by 18.6% year-on-year. At the same ... Read the full article
1st April 2020
China Reinsurance Group, the country’s largest reinsurer, could be eyeing a move into the US. The company revealed that it is carefully considering a plan to set up a business entity in the US based on global strategy and the implementation of the Sino-US phase one trade deal. The phase one deal ... Read the full article
1st April 2020
China Re has said that it expects the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to accelerate the development of the re/insurance industry by further motivating demand for health insurance and raising the importance of online technology and digital transformation. For the life and health reinsurance market, ceding demand for domestic health insurance will remain ... Read the full article
16th December 2019
China Re Group is set to launch a new fully-owned subsidiary, China Reinsurance Hong Kong Co. Ltd. (China Re HK), which is expected to play a vital role in the company's overseas expansion plans for its life reinsurance business. The new subsidiary will have the benefit of being able to leverage ... Read the full article
27th August 2019
China Reinsurance Corporation (China Re) has launched a new proprietary commercial earthquake catastrophe model for China, which aims to benefit the country’s re/insurance sector through improved costs and accuracy. China Earthquake Catastrophe Model v2.0, which has been certified by the Seismological Society of China, is also expected to fundamentally change the ... Read the full article
6th August 2019
China Reinsurance Corporation (China Re) has put a preliminary estimate for its first-half 2019 results, suggesting as much as a 45% uplift in profits is to be expected. For the first six months of 2019, China Re's estimates suggest that net profit attributable to equity shareholders in the reinsurer may be ... Read the full article
22nd July 2019
China Re has entered into a new partnership with Portuguese insurer Fidelidade to help support Chinese investments under the ambitious Belt and Road initiative. Working together, the companies will contribute to the implementation of reinsurance solutions for projects in Portugal, Spain, France, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Peru. The announcement comes shortly ... Read the full article
9th July 2019
Spanish re/insurance firm MAPFRE has announced a new partnership with China Re, which will see them collaborate on insuring investments related to China’s massive infrastructure plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). As part of the agreement, which was marked by a memorandum of understanding, MAPFRE will offer insurance and reinsurance ... Read the full article
24th June 2019
The Board of Directors of China Reinsurance Corporation (China Re) has approved the nomination of Liu Xiaopeng as a Non-Executive Director for the Board's fourth session. Xiaopeng is currently the director of the strategic operations of Gome Holdings Group Company Limited, an industrial conglomerate that operates in retail, finance, real estate, ... Read the full article
11th April 2019
International specialty insurance and reinsurance group, Chaucer, has announced that China Reinsurance Corporation (China Re) has completed the acquisition of Chaucer Insurance Company DAC in Ireland and SLE in Australia, from The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. China Re announced it had finalised its takeover of Chaucer in December 2018, noting ... Read the full article
