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News on rates and pricing across global insurance and reinsurance markets, with a particular focus on renewal rates on line in reinsurance and commercial insurance pricing trends.
Property cat rates strongly adequate, large loss needed to substantially adjust pricing: RenRe CEO
19th March 2026
Property catastrophe rates remain strongly adequate, so a relatively large loss would be needed to drive a meaningful adjustment, said RenaissanceRe’s CEO Kevin J. O'Donnell, though he noted that it is not the catastrophe itself that shifts rates, but the cumulative effect of rising loss trends and inflation gradually outpacing ... Read the full article
Reinsurance rate declines expected but magnitude uncertain: Slide CEO
26th February 2026
Risk-adjusted property reinsurance rates are trending down in 2026, and while the magnitude is uncertain, early indicators from the catastrophe bond market suggest a significant shift, Slide Insurance CEO and Founder, Bruce Lucas, noted during the company’s latest earnings call. Slide recently placed a $320 million ILS (insurance-linked securities) bond, which ... Read the full article
Reinsurance profitability to remain strong in 2026: Autonomous
11th February 2026
Despite a softening in pricing, industry leaders suggest that structural improvements and “inherently good” price adequacy are set to maintain high margins, leading Autonomous to forecast strong reinsurance profitability for 2026. The sector enters this period following an exceptionally strong 2025, where record levels of reinsurance capacity -driven by robust earnings ... Read the full article
Fitch predicts further re/insurance softening in 2026, but ROEs to stay strong
19th January 2026
The insurance and reinsurance market is expected to experience further softening in 2026, yet profitability is to remain robust, with returns on equity (ROEs) remaining above the industry’s cost of capital, Fitch Ratings notes in a recent report. Fitch forecasts that while ROEs may dip from the high teens seen in ... Read the full article
Global property cat rate declines below consensus at 1.1 renewals: Jefferies
14th January 2026
The reinsurance investor community were bracing for average reinsurance rates for Global Property Catastrophe Reinsurance to drop between -15% and -20% at the January 1st renewals, a more pessimistic result to the estimated -12% to -15% reported by broking groups, according to a recent report by Jefferies. This downturn in pricing ... Read the full article
Reinsurance market remains resilient with sellers eager to deploy capacity: Doyle, MMC
16th October 2025
The reinsurance market remains resilient in the face of elevated losses from natural catastrophe events, geopolitical instability and an uncertain macroeconomic landscape, with reinsurers eager to deploy capacity as competition increases, according to John Doyle, President of global broking group, Marsh McLennan (MMC). Doyle commented on insurance and reinsurance market conditions ... Read the full article
Price will be a talking point but reinsurance structures expected to hold: Munich Re
16th October 2025
Global reinsurer Munich Re expects price to be a discussion point at the 2025 Baden-Baden Reinsurance Meeting next week, and emphasised that the firm is ready to deploy more capital ahead of the January renewals with structures projected to hold, but warned that the carrier will walk away from business ... Read the full article
No real concern for property cat rate declines ahead of 1/1: Peel Hunt
22nd September 2025
Peel Hunt, a UK-based equity research and advisory firm, reports that there is no significant concern over rate declines in property catastrophe at 1/1, even in the event of a benign hurricane season. According to Peel Hunt analysts, during the Monte Carlo Rendezvous, reinsurance carriers offered “very little” pushback to brokers’ ... Read the full article
Volumes & revenue growth slowed as renewals progressed this year: Fitch
27th August 2025
The four largest European reinsurers – Munich Reinsurance Company (Munich Re), Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd (Swiss Re), Hannover Rueck SE (Hannover Re) and SCOR SE – achieved a record average return on equity (ROE) of 21.1% in the first half of 2025 (1H25). They surpassed the previous 20.5% peak seen in ... Read the full article
Hannover Re seeing growth in most segments, nat cat risk appetite expanding: Sven Althoff
12th August 2025
Hannover Re, one of Europe's big four reinsurance companies, has achieved year-to-date growth in traditional treaty renewals of 5.4%, with one of the key drivers being underlying expansion of the firm's ceding companies, while the carrier's appetite for natural catastrophe risk is also growing, according to Sven Althoff, Member of ... Read the full article
We don’t believe it’s a soft market, most classes we write more than adequately priced: Lancashire CEO
6th August 2025
Insurance market conditions remain favourable with most lines of business well priced, and while rates have come down from recent highs, Alex Maloney, CEO of Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer Lancashire, has said after seven years of aggregate rate change, you don't transition to a soft market in six months. Speaking recently ... Read the full article
Property cat ROEs ‘still very attractive’, rate declines not always across the board: Arch CEO
5th August 2025
Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance company, Arch Capital Group Ltd., expanded its property catastrophe reinsurance writings, particularly in Florida, during the second quarter of 2025, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Nicolas Papadopoulo, believes that ROEs in the line remain "very attractive." Group-wide, Arch expanded its gross premiums written (GPW) by ... Read the full article
Guy Carpenter global property cat ROL index falls 8.1% following mid-year renewals
10th July 2025
Property catastrophe reinsurance rates have fallen 8.1% globally following the April and mid-year renewals, according to the latest update of Guy Carpenter's property catastrophe reinsurance rate on line indices. Regular readers will recall that Guy Carpenter updates its global and regional property catastrophe rate on line indices at key renewal periods, ... Read the full article
Commercial insurance rate increases to moderate in 2025: KBW
24th June 2025
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (KBW), an investment bank and research firm focused on financial services, expects overall commercial insurance rate increases to moderate in 2025 following years of compounding gains across most lines of business. Drawing on detailed pricing data from MarketScout, an industry analytics provider tracking insurance rate trends, ... Read the full article
US commercial insurance rates up 5.3% in Q1’25: WTW
11th June 2025
The latest findings of WTW’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS), reveals that US commercial insurance rates have continued a downward trajectory compared with the prior two quarters, despite an increase of 5.3% in the first quarter of 2025. CLIPS compares premiums for policies underwritten during the first quarter of 2025 ... Read the full article
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