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Escalating ‘intensity of hail’ in SCS events driving claims costs and motor damage – Perils

2026-09-09T14:50:00+01:00

The re/insurance market has to become more focused on mitigation as hail increasingly drives ‘billion dollar’ insured loss events, says chief executive

Hamilton Re eyes selective casualty growth
2026-09-08T12:58:00+01:00
KCC’s Clark: AI can sharpen cat models without making them a black box
2026-09-08T12:49:00+01:00
Specialism over scale: Finding alpha in a softening market
2026-09-08T12:14:00+01:00
Cyber reinsurance market softens as AI and infrastructure risks start to emerge
2026-09-08T11:11:00+01:00
Swiss Re: ‘Zero’ appetite for new liability business, citing legal system abuse
2026-09-08T10:55:00+01:00
Reinsurance conversation must move ‘beyond price’ – Everest
2026-09-07T15:04:00+01:00

Cedar Trace targets 2027 Lloyd’s launch with $300m syndicate

2026-09-07T12:08:00+01:00

New syndicate will write reinsurance and delegated insurance business, adding Lloyd’s capacity and distribution to Cedar Trace’s existing Bermuda platform

SiriusPoint ready to redeploy capital amid market softening – Egan

2026-09-07T11:55:00+01:00By David Benyon

Chief executive Scott Egan says four years of turnaround work have put SiriusPoint on stronger footing with cedants and ratings agencies. That discipline now guides where capital goes next, with aviation flagged as the area still most in need of a rate fix

MS Amlin backs NDF as climate resilience model targets scale

2026-09-07T11:54:00+01:00By David Benyon

MS Amlin’s $50m commitment to the Natural Disaster Fund aims to turn emerging-market climate resilience into a scalable commercial opportunity, the executive team from MS Amlin and CelsiusPro explain

HDI secures Lloyd’s approval in principle for Syndicate 2029

2026-09-07T11:02:00+01:00

New syndicate will expand HDI Global’s access to Lloyd’s licences and distribution as part of its Xcelerate29 growth strategy

Howden Re launches Novark to bring capital markets infrastructure to insurance risk

2026-09-07T10:50:00+01:00

The reinsurance broker’s new Bermuda-based platform will provide near real-time information on insurance investments as Howden Re looks to broaden institutional access to alternative capital

Hannover Re targets LatAm and European growth

2026-09-07T10:41:00+01:00By Katie Scott

Reinsurer hopes to plug ‘substantive protection gap’ identified in certain geographies, as well as take advantage of evolving risk environment to grow in certain product areas

Lloyd’s set to diversify with ‘very good’ syndicate pipeline – AM Best

2026-09-07T10:36:00+01:00By Katie Scott

Following a financial strength rating upgrade in 2024, support for syndicates has grown in the Lloyd’s market, with new geographies and products coming into scope

Cyber infrastructure clauses are inconsistent and could swing loss ratios by 15 points, Lockton Re warns

2026-09-07T08:54:00+01:00

Critical infrastructure exclusions on cyber insurance could produce materially different loss outcomes depending on how they are drafted and interpreted, with Lockton Re modelling a 20% relative reduction in industry loss ratios at the 1-in-50 return period

Look beyond recency bias as property cat softens – MS Re’s Bruniecki

2026-09-07T08:00:00+01:00By David Benyon

MS Re’s new group CUO Jörg Bruniecki says abundant capacity is increasing competitive pressure, but technical discipline, long-term relationships and the ’permanence of capital’ remain central to strategy

APCL: Lloyd’s still attractive but syndicate selection paramount

2026-09-07T07:30:00+01:00By David Benyon

Robert Flach and Kate Tongue of APCL argue Lloyd’s rewards patient investors – if they back the syndicates strong enough to weather the coming soft market

Eric Malterre: ASR expansion will retain underwriting discipline

2026-09-07T07:00:00+01:00By David Benyon

Africa Specialty Risks’ expansion into new developing markets will not come at the cost of underwriting standards and consistency, Eric Malterre assures GR

LIRG targets Barbados reinsurer launch as ILW platform expands

2026-09-06T16:52:00+01:00

Mark Groenheide said LIRG is seeking an additional $200m-$300m for its ILW portfolio as it prepares to establish a Class II reinsurer in Barbados

Westfield Specialty rebalances as property competition intensifies

2026-09-06T16:34:00+01:00

Westfield Specialty is prepared to shrink in more competitive classes as it targets higher-margin opportunities across a diversified specialty portfolio, CEO Jack Kuhn said at RVS 2026

IGI: PV premiums must rise to restore market sustainability

2026-09-06T14:54:00+01:00

Political violence and terrorism insurers need to generate more premium globally as tighter reinsurance terms leave the direct market retaining more losses, according to IGI group chief underwriting officer Chris Jarvis, speaking with GR editor David Benyon for an episode of The Political Risk Podcast

Sidecars steering towards casualty and specialty risks - Aon

2026-09-06T11:11:00+01:00By Katie Scott

In the last two years, there has been ‘a true expansion of sidecars into either whole account sidecar structures or casualty-based structures’, driving ‘a great deal of attention’ from investors, says Aon

AM Best ringfences broker facilities as ‘net credit negative’ risk

2026-09-06T11:06:00+01:00By Katie Scott

Rating agency’s managing director of analytics explained that ‘reduced underwriting control’ is a ‘primary concern’ for reinsurers navigating the soft market cycle

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