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S&P upgrades Milli Re’s outlook to positive
6th October 2025
S&P Global Ratings, an international credit rating agency, has upgraded its outlook on Milli Reinsurans T.A.S. (Milli Re) to positive from stable, while reaffirming the company’s long-term issuer credit and insurer financial strength ratings at ‘B’, additionally, S&P raised Milli Re’s national scale rating in Turkiye from ‘trBBB+’ to ‘trA’. According ... Read the full article
Light hurricane season offers profit boost for reinsurers: J.P. Morgan
3rd October 2025
There could be a material upside for reinsurers' profits if the remainder of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season remains light, according to a recent report by J.P. Morgan. With Q3 now complete, the period is expected to have been very good from a catastrophe loss experience perspective. However, analysts are cautious about ... Read the full article
Lloyd’s to enhance oversight of legacy transactions
3rd October 2025
Lloyd’s, the specialist insurance and reinsurance marketplace headquartered in London, has introduced new oversight measures for legacy reinsurance transactions. These changes, effective from 2025, strengthen the pre-transaction review process to ensure that such deals are aligned with Lloyd’s standards of underwriting discipline, reserving practices, claims handling, capital management, conduct, investments, and ... Read the full article
Autonomous: European insurers gain from lower than expected cat losses in Q3
3rd October 2025
Autonomous, the research arm of AllianceBernstein known for its independent analysis of the financial sector, has extended its recent work on reinsurers to examine the impact of this year’s benign catastrophe environment on major European primary insurers. While the absence of large-scale events provides a more clear-cut advantage to reinsurers, Autonomous ... Read the full article
Augment Risk and Cohen partner to bridge gap between reinsurance and ILS capital for casualty
2nd October 2025
Augment Risk, a risk capital and reinsurance solutions intermediary, and Cohen & Company, an asset management specialist, have entered a strategic joint venture that aims to transform the casualty reinsurance landscape by bridging the gap between reinsurance clients and insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital. This joint venture has been designed to provide ... Read the full article
Swiss Re finds reinsurance reduces solvency capital and enhances liquidity for UK life insurers
1st October 2025
According to Swiss Re, the global reinsurer, insurers can use reinsurance strategically to improve balance sheet efficiency and manage liquidity in response to ongoing market volatility. Swiss Re observes that in 2025, UK life insurers face pressures from foreign exchange exposures, inflation-linked liabilities, and the widening spread between gilt yields and ... Read the full article
Moody’s estimates $6tn in US GDP losses from climate and natural disaster risks by 2050
1st October 2025
Moody’s has released a detailed assessment of the potential economic and financial consequences of natural catastrophes and physical risk by 2050. Their findings indicate that, without additional policy interventions, the global economy could incur $41.4 trillion in losses, representing 14.5% of projected global GDP. According to Moody’s, around two-thirds of these losses ... Read the full article
Aon survey finds geopolitical volatility breaks into global top 10 business risks
1st October 2025
Aon plc, a professional services firm providing risk, retirement and health solutions, has released the 2025 edition of its Global Risk Management Survey. Now in its 19th year, the biennial study has become a key benchmark for understanding how organisations around the world identify and prioritise threats. This year’s findings highlight a ... Read the full article
Canada Life Re expands US P&C team
1st October 2025
Canada Life Reinsurance, a division of Canada Life that provides solutions to help insurers manage risk and grow their businesses, has announced the appointment of Minas Kalachian to its US Property & Casualty (P&C) team. Kalachian brings extensive experience in structured reinsurance and well-established relationships with clients and brokers. The appointment strengthens ... Read the full article
Fortitude Re enters funding agreement backed notes market
1st October 2025
Global reinsurance company Fortitude Re has announced that Fortitude Life Insurance & Annuity Company (FLIAC) has entered the funding agreement backed notes market with an inaugural $500 million issuance. The move is a strategic step to diversify the company’s capital sources and support its ongoing growth initiatives. The notes, which are a ... Read the full article
Bamboo and Accredited partner on reinsurance deal for new E&S signature program
30th September 2025
Bamboo Ide8 Insurance Services, LLC., part of White Mountains Insurance Group, alongside specialty insurer Accredited, have completed the reinsurance program supporting the launch of their new E&S Signature program. This reinsurance placement involves the funding of a multi-year sidecar transaction via Greenshoots Re, which was originally established in conjunction with ... Read the full article
Talent gap a challenge for the re/insurance industry amid evolving global landscape: Toucan
30th September 2025
The global insurance and reinsurance industry is facing a significant talent gap, a challenge exacerbated by outdated recruitment practices and, in some cases, a lack of understanding of specialised industry roles, Marco Silva and Lucian Chiroiu, co-founders of Toucan, shared with Reinsurance News in a recent interview. Toucan, a UK recruiting ... Read the full article
Marlon Williams hired as Senior Broker at AHJ Miller Bermuda
29th September 2025
AHJ Miller, the reinsurance division of Miller and an independent specialist re/insurance broker, has appointed Marlon Williams as Senior Broker in its Bermuda office. Williams brings more than 20 years of industry experience, covering insurance, reinsurance, catastrophe modelling, and international property catastrophe underwriting. He joins from Hiscox Re & ILS, where he ... Read the full article
Climate change could drive reinsurance volume, but softening a more immediate threat: Morningstar
29th September 2025
While climate change could drive reinsurance volume in the long-term, softening of the market is more important in the medium-term, Morningstar analysts have highlighted in a recent report. The re/insurance industry is facing increasing losses as global temperatures continue to increase, a direct consequence of climate change. While the frequency of ... Read the full article
Florida’s property re/insurance market rebounds following tort reform: Gallagher Re
26th September 2025
Gallagher Re, a global reinsurance brokerage and risk advisory firm, reports that Florida’s property insurance market is experiencing a significant resurgence, driven largely by recent tort reforms that have restored confidence among carriers, reinsurers, and capital providers. According to Gallagher Re’s analysis, the most tangible sign of this recovery was the ... Read the full article
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