Reinsurance capital reaches record level of $785bn

Pricing on Japanese cat XL programmes falls by up to 20%, as Middle East conflict had little impact on renewals, Howden Re reports

Hong Kong proposes easing of capital rules for natural catastrophe writers and branches of foreign reinsurers

Syndicate will begin underwriting on 1 April to support India’s insurance market

Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary National Indemnity Company to acquire 2.5% equity stake in the Japanese giant and provide whole account quota share reinsurance

Legacy carrier inks A$400m transaction with Zurich

Reinsurer hires senior underwriter from Aspen

Brokers builds out reinsurance business in Singapore with senior hires from Miller and Arthur J Gallagher

Brokers peg insured losses from wave of severe convective storms in early March at low to mid-single billions of dollars

Final industry loss estimate is slightly lower than third estimate of A$1.9bn

Insurance regulator hopes to contribute to ‘regional AI hub’

ICA says severe weather caused nearly $2.5bn in insured losses in 2025

Insured losses hiked to nearly A$3bn for New South Wales and Queensland tempests at the end of November

January bushfires in Victoria burned more than 4,000 square kilometres

Mark Cloutier steps into advisory role as Aspen’s Stanford named Sompo UK chief executive

South African group’s branch will write marine, property, engineering and other reinsurance contracts