Description: The article will explore the market dynamics driving asset-intensive reinsurance in Japan, analyze how Japanese insurers are strategically utilizing both block and flow reinsurance to achieve diverse business goals, and discuss key considerations for offshore reinsurers seeking to enter this market.

Description: In the past decade, U.S. life and annuity insurance companies’ utilization of asset-intensive reinsurance internal reinsurance has grown significantly. Many reinsurers and insurers have set up entities or affiliates in Cayman, with many more in the pipeline. Here we will discuss Cayman’s reinsurance market growth momentum, and the main benefits that Cayman offers.

Description: The cyber insurance market looks like it’s growing—rapidly, in fact. However, there’s more to the cyber insurance market than the outward appearance of strong growth. Worldwide aggregate premium’s upward trend may even be cause for alarm. The increase in premium against a flat rate of insured exposure is a key sign that the market could turn from growth to constriction if a solution isn’t found in the near future. If the cyber insurance sector hopes to reach such lofty goals as exceeding $30 billion in global premium by 2028, it’s going to need more capital. Whether directly into the insurance sector or via support from reinsurance and retrocession, fresh capital should help insurers achieve greater market penetration, build a broader foundation for ongoing expansion, and chart a course for long-term sustainable profitable growth. The same sources capital insurers have used since the early days of the market won’t be enough, though. Thankfully, the insurance linked securities (ILS) market seems poised to help, particularly with several promising recent transactions. New sources of capital could bolster the foundation for future cyber re/insurance growth.

Description: In this article, the author provides an update, as of April 2023, on the Reinsurance Section’s sponsored research in process and studies recently completed.

Description: brief discussion on Solvency II and accounting regimes, and update on Reinsurance Section activity.

Description: We continue to hear that our reinsurers are dissatisfied with the quality of our reporting under our various treaties. There have even been veiled threats of arbitration over our lack of compliance with the treaty reporting requirements, the implication being that they would rescind the offending treaty to inception.

Description: Feature article discussing the major issues multinational reinsurers face in Brazil.

Description: Discussion about the challenges of teaching life reinsurance to non-life reinsurance practitioners and regulators based on the experiences of the author

Description: Article that speaks about many of the benefits of reinsurance, including profitability optimization, risk mitigation and capital utilization improvement.

Description: Feature article discussing how the COVID-19 crisis has amplified the downward pressure on interest rates and amid the mounting debt levels resulting from the massive fiscal and monetary stimulus and a subdued medium-term economic outlook, monetary policies are expected to stay very accommodative for the foreseeable future.