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Gallagher Re is the reinsurance broking arm of the Gallagher group, providing reinsurance related intermediary services to insurers, reinsurers and clients.

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Reinsurance no silver bullet to climate challenge: Gallagher Re’s Bavandi

9th March 2023

Antoine Bavandi, Global Head of Public Sector & Climate Resilience Solutions at Gallagher Re, has contended that re/insurance cover alone is no “silver bullet” to matching capital with risk and addressing the growing challenge of climate resilience. Bavandi instead suggests that insurance and reinsurance are only part of a much wider ... Read the full article

Gallagher Re acquires WTW India treaty reinsurance operation

9th March 2023

Reinsurance broker Gallagher Re is set to expand its operations in India with the creation of a single treaty reinsurance team that will be led by Vinod Krishnan, following an agreement to acquire the treaty reinsurance broking operations of Willis Towers Watson India Insurance Brokers Private Limited (WTW India). The reinsurance ... Read the full article

Gallagher Re appoints new co-head of agriculture for its International division

8th March 2023

Global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has appointed Shilpa Pankaj to its team in Singapore as Executive Director and co-head of agriculture for its International division, which spans Asia Pacific, EMEA and Latin America. Pankaj holds over a decade of reinsurance broking and client management experience, Specialising in treaty reinsurance for agriculture, ... Read the full article

Gallagher Re acquires London market binder broker, Bay Risk

6th March 2023

Reinsurance broker Gallagher Re, has announced that it has acquired the business and assets of Bay Risk Services Limited, a member of the Optio Group, for an undisclosed sum. Established in 2016 as a London-based, independent Lloyd’s broker, Bay Risk specialises in structuring and placing contracts of delegated underwriting authority and, ... Read the full article

Reinsurers need evidence the tide is turning in Florida, says Gallagher Re’s Schwebach

28th February 2023

During an interview with AM Best TV at the annual Artemis ILS conference in New York on February 10th, Adam Schwebach, executive vice president, Gallagher Re explained how we are starting to see “the tide turn” within Florida’s insurance market. During the interview, he explained that current local market conditions, ... Read the full article

McManus & Kapfer to lead Gallagher Re’s specialty and indexed capabilities in Bermuda

21st February 2023

Global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has announced the appointment of Alex McManus and Romain Kapfer to lead its index-based capabilities and specialty business in Bermuda, respectively. Effective immediately, McManus will lead index-based initiatives on the island working closely with Gallagher Securities, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) arm of Gallagher Re. His appointment, Gallagher ... Read the full article

RiverStone Intl. finalises £1.2bn RITC & LPT agreements with MS Amlin

15th February 2023

Legacy acquirer and reinsurer RiverStone International has completed a reinsurance-to-close (RITC) and a loss portfolio transfer (LPT) with MS Amlin Underwriting Limited, with net technical provisions of £1.2 billion. Under the agreement, RiverStone provides MS Amlin Syndicate 2001 with a RITC of the 2018 and prior years of account, and a ... Read the full article

Gallagher Re adds Parametric Solutions Lead to its climate resilience practice

13th February 2023

Gian Sandosh Semadeni is joining Gallagher Re’s Public Sector & Climate Resilience Solutions global practice as Parametric Solutions Lead. He will be working alongside Antoine Bavandi, who was appointed in 2022 to lead the new practice, and Dorra Berraies, who has spent four months serving at the practice as Senior ... Read the full article

Gallagher Re hires Junaid Seria as Head of Cat Analytics, LatAm & Caribbean

10th February 2023

Reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has appointed Junaid Seria as Head of Catastrophe Analytics for the fast-growing Latin America and Caribbean markets, with immediate effect. Within the role, Seria will be based in London where he will harness Gallagher Re’s extensive catastrophe modelling and analytical expertise across its dedicated teams in London, ... Read the full article

COVID losses in APAC could strain A&H reinsurers: Gallagher Re

9th February 2023

Analysts at Gallagher Re have warned that new COVID-19-related losses emanating from the Asia-Pacific region may put a strain on first-tier accident and health (A&H) reinsurers through 2023. The broker expects that the majority of these losses will be contained locally, but it does believe that the Lloyd’s market is likely ... Read the full article

Gallagher Re forecasts “inevitable” market adjustments amid inflation

6th February 2023

Analysts at reinsurance broker Gallagher Re have argued that market adjustments to ensure solvency for the re/insurance industry will be “inevitable” as the market looks to balance the continued effects of inflation, social inflation, elevated supply costs, and other variables. In its 2022 Natural Catastrophe report, Gallagher Re notes that nat ... Read the full article

Insurtech funding slumps by 57% in Q4: Gallagher Re

2nd February 2023

New data from reinsurance broker Gallagher Re shows that global insurtech investment declined by 57.0% to $1.01 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022, when compared with the previous quarter. According to the broker’s Global InsurTech Report, this means that insurtech funding is at its lowest quarterly point since Q1 2020. The ... Read the full article

Global insured losses from natural catastrophes in 2022 seen at $140bn by Gallagher Re

30th January 2023

For the fifth year since 2017, insurance and reinsurance industry losses from natural catastrophe events exceeded the $100 billion threshold in 2022 at a huge $140 billion, reports reinsurance broker Gallagher Re. The broker's 2022 Natural Catastrophe report, published today, notes another year of complex natural disaster events in 2022, which ... Read the full article

Gallagher Re appoints Gammoh as Head of Capital Advisory & Modelling

23rd January 2023

Global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has appointed Shireen Gammoh as Global Head of Capital Advisory & Modelling. Based in London, Gammoh joined Gallagher Re in 2021. In her most recent role at the firm, she served as Head of Strategic & Financial Advisory. Overall, she brings nearly 20 years of experience towards ... Read the full article

Cyber loss picks stable at Jan 1 despite rate hardening: Gallagher Re

9th January 2023

Reinsurers aggregate excess of loss/stop loss cyber loss picks remained stable at 1/1, global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re revealed in its 1st View Report. Sharing its comments on the global cyber market at the January 1, 2023 reinsurance renewals, the broker said that despite significant rate hardening in underlying portfolios, "market ... Read the full article