African Reinsurance Articles: Strategic Thinking from the People Who Do the Work
The most useful insight comes from practitioners, not observers. The articles on this page are written by the same team that designs our treaty reinsurance programmes, negotiates our facultative reinsurance placements, and builds the analytical models that underpin our structuring recommendations.
That means you are reading the thinking of people who sit in renewal meetings in Nairobi, negotiate capacity in London, navigate CIMA compliance in Abidjan, and present portfolio analytics to boards across the continent. When they write about a topic, it is because they have worked on it, not because it is trending.
Built for Technical Decision-Makers, Not Casual Readers
These are written for Chief Risk Officers, Heads of Reinsurance, actuaries, and capacity managers who want substance. If an article changes how you think about a part of your programme, it has done its job. If it raises a question you want to discuss with our team, even better.
A cyber insurance solution for African businesses
The rate of cyberattacks on businesses around the world is increasing at a pace never seen before, fuelled by sophisticated technology, including the use of artificial intelligence to launch more vicious attacks and bypass cyber security systems.
Advanced facultative reinsurance: a new approach to risk management
My previous article, Facultative reinsurance: the need for more advanced solutions, looked at the shortcomings of the traditional approach of facultative reinsurance.
African maritime insurance more critical than ever as piracy surges
Maritime piracy in East Indian Ocean waters has returned after a decade of relative calm in this area, with Somali pirates launching renewed attacks on vessels routing past the Horn of Africa. This has once again highlighted the importance of marine re/insurance to assist ship...
Bankers Blanket Bond: A shield against rising occupational fraud
Global financial institutions recorded a staggering 40% increase in occupational fraud between 2018 and 2022* while worldwide occupational fraud losses topped $42 billion** last year.
Facultative reinsurance: the need for more advanced solutions
Traditionally, facultative reinsurance has adopted a single-risk approach. However this has become limiting, as market conditions have changed and presented underwriters with new, unprecedented challenges. These factors, combined with escalating volatility, are driving the need...
Flood risk modelling could have prepared us for the KZN floods
South Africa is still reeling from the significant loss of life, and housing and infrastructural devastation, of the floods that rocked KwaZulu-Natal in April. The harsh reality is, this will happen again. Floods, fire and other climate change-related events will increase in the...
How proportional treaty reinsurance is priced
There is often confusion over how proportional treaty pricing is calculated. In a proportional treaty, the reinsurer agrees to take a fixed percentage of the insurer’s premiums and pay the same percentage of the insurer’s claims in return. Both premium and loss are shared...
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