All RVS 2025 articles
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NewsICEYE’s next chapter: broader perils, more satellites, faster insights
An evolving strategy for ICEYE’s insurance solutions arm involves a multi-peril approach
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NewsCoalition’s hybrid ‘active’ model for cyber expanding amid soft market – Ram
Coalition’s Shawn Ram says the cyber specialist’s data-driven “active insurance” and reinsurance tools aim to differentiate in a softening market, as the firm expands in Europe with Allianz capacity for France.
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NewsAdapt, evolve, grow – RVS Global Executive Breakfast Roundtable 2025
Senior reinsurance and insurance figures gathered over breakfast at the Hotel Hermitage in Monte Carlo to discuss the re/insurance sector’s ability to embrace resilience, relevance and opportunity in an era where global volatility and change is the only constant
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NewsThe next phase of AI and digital integration
From AI-driven pricing to interoperability hubs, insurtech professionals at RVS 2025 told GR that the industry has reached a pivot point for meaningful digital transformation, with only 10% of insurers so far claiming to embed AI into workflows.
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NewsKuhn stresses profit discipline as Westfield Specialty trims property and builds in E&S
Westfield Specialty’s Jack Kuhn says the carrier will finish 2025 near $1.8bn in premium after two profitable years, prioritising cycle-proof returns while easing back on property and leaning into E&S casualty, financial lines and cyber.
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NewsBridgehaven not yet ‘scratched the surface’ of growth ambitions – CUO Paul Dilley
Chief underwriting officer explains ‘twofold’ strategy for 2026, which will see the hybrid fronting firm add new UK MGAs to its roster alongside a European expansion
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NewsSpecialty reinsurance growth opportunities despite market softening – IGI’s Jabsheh
IGI is targeting specialty reinsurance expansion , GR learned at RVS 2025, with CEO Waleed Jabsheh suggesting specialty could become 25% of the firm’s reinsurance book
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NewsBlueprint Two delay to boost in-house tech innovation
Firms now have ’the room and scope to invest in their own problems that actually matter to them and not just the market initiative’, says tech company president
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NewsCasualty is a pain, not a crisis – Howden Re’s Flandro
Reinsurance broker’s head of industry analysis and strategic advisory, David Flandro says US liability stress is being offset across lines, while property cat sits in a market softening that could eventually find a floor as capital costs stay elevated.
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NewsReinsurers turned a blind eye to climate crisis in Monte Carlo, campaign group warns
Ariel Le Bourdonnec was unimpressed by reinsurers contentment to insulate their financial results from climate risk and prioritising other threats in their briefings at this year’s reinsurance rendezvous
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NewsPro’s Maleary: Orb Specialty bridges gap between capital and MGAs
Pro MGA Global Solutions’ launch of Orb Specialty has been part of the company’s plans since 2016, awaiting the desired scale to launch, CEO Danny Maleary tells GR.
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NewsFac growth and hybrid flexibility key to strategy – Everest’s Izzo
Everest’s Anthony Izzo, explains that the reinsurer’s leaning into property facultative, building hybrid structures, and using technology to strengthen long-term partnerships.
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NewsBruniecki: Long-term relationships anchor MS Re strategy
MS Reinsurance is doubling down on stability and client partnerships as market volatility and geopolitical uncertainty weigh on the reinsurance sector, according to Jorg Bruniecki, chief underwriting officer, global specialty lines, MS Re
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NewsSpecialty balancing competition with sustainability – Munich Re’s Schwimmer
Munich Re’s Christa Schwimmer says the specialty reinsurance market faces mounting pressures across marine, aviation and cyber, but stresses the importance of discipline, differentiation and long-term client partnerships.
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NewsReinsurance showing ‘greater willingness to be innovative’ – BMS Re’s Dudley
Alongside data usage developing reinsurance delivery, chief broking officer believes ‘a real crossover’ is ‘happening between insurers and reinsurers’
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NewsAon’s Pennay: ILS maturity opens new growth pathways
Richard Pennay, CEO of Aon Securities, says cat bonds have become a central feature of the reinsurance landscape, with casualty and cyber poised to fuel the next phase of insurance-linked securities (ILS) development.
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NewsSwiss Re notes nuclear growth, SRCC exposures and geopolitical volatility
At RVS 2025 in Monte Carlo, Swiss Re executives highlighted nuclear energy investment, rising civil unrest exposures and geopolitical volatility as prominent features of the evolving risk landscape.
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NewsPro MGA Global Solutions launches Orb Specialty to link capacity with MGAs
New MGU designed to streamline distribution and strengthen incubation ecosystem
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NewsModels present opportunity to plug protection gaps – Verisk
Data from risk models could be used to show reinsurers where to ‘spread their capacity’ – or shine a light on ‘over exposed’ areas that firms should instead pull out of
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NewsOneAdvent plans US expansion in 2026 ‘to attract ambitious, bigger MGAs’ – Quayle
Chief executive confirms additional plans around underwriting capabilities and capacity that he hopes to get off the ground next year too
