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Hannover Re is one of the largest reinsurance companies in the world. Hannover Re transacts all lines of property and casualty and life and health reinsurance, operating globally and providing meaningful limit to its clients.
Hannover Re was founded in 1966 and went public in 1994 and operates a worldwide network of subsidiaries, branches and representative offices underwriting business such as facultative, direct and catastrophe XoL reinsurance business in the P&C market, as well as life, health, annuity and personal accident reinsurance business.
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Global Parametrics renews Mexican reef cover, backed by Hannover Re
3rd September 2020
Global Parametrics, the parametric and index-based risk transfer startup, has led the renewal of a MXN 42.5 million (USD 1.9 Million) Mexican Reef Protection Program with reinsurance support from Hannover Re. Global Parametrics structured a parametric solution which pays out to support the restoration of a section of the Mesoamerican reef ... Read the full article
Average combined ratio of the world’s top reinsurers declined in 2019
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
European reinsurers top tier globally by business profile: Fitch
24th August 2020
The four major European reinsurers - Munich Re, Swiss Re, Hannover Re and SCOR SE are among the top tier of global reinsurers by business profile, Fitch Ratings says. Large franchises and a high degree of diversification underpin Fitch's assessment of very strong business profile for each group. The capital adequacy of ... Read the full article
COVID-19’s impact on Europe’s top reinsurers considerable, varied: Fitch
14th August 2020
Despite the H120 results from the four major European reinsurers - Munich Re, Swiss Re, Hannover Re and SCOR - revealing considerable pandemic-related claims, the impact of the pandemic on the four reinsurers varied significantly. This is in part due to differences in exposure to lines of business affected by the ... Read the full article
Hannover Re’s Vogel to retire; HDI’s Jungsthöfel appointed new CFO
7th August 2020
Roland Vogel, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of German reinsurance giant Hannover Re, is retiring from the company on September 30th, 2020 after more than three decades of service to the firm, and will be succeeded by Clemens Jungsthöfel, the current CFO of HDI Global SE. During his long and distinguished ... Read the full article
Hannover Re’s H1 net income falls as COVID-19 reserves hit €600mn
5th August 2020
Global reinsurance giant Hannover Re has reported a 39.3% decline in net income for the first six months of the year to €402.4 million, as the firm set aside additional reserves of €380 million for estimated losses associated with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The increase in reserves means that the reinsurer ... Read the full article
Re/insurers cannot shoulder pandemic risk: Hannover Re’s Henchoz
20th July 2020
Hannover Re CEO Jean-Jacques Henchoz has warned that the re/insurance industry does not possess the capital and should not be expected to shoulder a systemic global risk like the COVID-19 pandemic. “We cannot diversify it as a risk,” he told Swiss, German-language newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Henchoz explained that other approaches to ... Read the full article
Gareth Matthews named Chief Underwriter at Hannover Re UK Life Branch
3rd July 2020
Global reinsurer Hannover Re has announced the appointment of Gareth Matthews as Chief Underwriter for the Hannover Re UK Life Branch, effective July 1st, 2020. Matthews takes over from Stuart Johnson who has retired following more than six years with Hannover Re and almost four decades in the industry. Since 2014, Matthews ... Read the full article
Higher margins may offset fading investment income for major reinsurers: Fitch
29th May 2020
The financial earnings of the big four European reinsurers will be affected negatively by the COVID-19 pandemic in the short-term, but moving forward, improved technical pricing could largely offset fading investment returns, according to Fitch Ratings. As evidenced by first-quarter 2020 results, the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for the ... Read the full article
Hannover Re’s Shanghai branch gets approval for $212mn capital increase
11th May 2020
Xinhua News Agency has reported that the China Banking Regulatory Commission has granted Hannover Re's Shanghai Branch approval an additional 1.5 billion yuan ($212 million) to its registered capital. This increase brings total registered capital to 4.1 billion yuan ($577 million). Earlier in September 2019, Hannover Re had added an additional 1.55 ... Read the full article
COVID-19 dents Hannover Re’s P&C result, Group net income still up 2.5%
6th May 2020
Reinsurance giant Hannover Re has reported an increase in net income to €300.9 million for the first-quarter of 2020, as an improved performance within Life and Health (L&H) more than offset the impacts of COVID-19 on the reinsurer's Property and Casualty (P&C) reinsurance unit. Group net income improved by 2.5% in ... Read the full article
Hannover Re withdraws 2020 profit guidance on COVID-19 pandemic
22nd April 2020
Global reinsurance giant Hannover Re has withdrawn its profit guidance for 2020 in light of the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and related uncertainty surrounding claims and the capital market landscape. The German reinsurer states that its first-quarter 2020 results were not significantly impacted by the global spread of the coronavirus as ... Read the full article
Talanx posts record €923mn net income for 2019 despite large losses
16th March 2020
Talanx, the parent company of Hannover Re, generated a record net income of €923 million during 2019 despite higher-than expected large losses. Total large losses amounted to €1.3 billion, due above all to events in non-life reinsurance. €363 million of this figure was attributable to primary insurance, while reinsurance accounted for the ... Read the full article
Hannover Re puts P&C coronavirus exposure at €200mn
12th March 2020
German reinsurer Hannover Re has estimated that its maximum exposure to coronavirus losses on the property and casualty (P&C) side of its business is around €200 million. Speaking alongside the release of the company’s 2019 results, executives explained that Hannover Re could see costs related to business interruption and cancellation ... Read the full article
Nat cat losses stunt Hannover Re’s P&C performance
11th March 2020
Global reinsurer Hannover Re has posted a net income of €1.28 billion for 2019, a 21.2% increase from the previous year, despite significant property and casualty reinsurance losses. The largest loss was hurricane Dorian at a net cost of €194.7 million. Typhoons Hagibis and Faxai caused further expenditure of €183.8 million ... Read the full article
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