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.
Riot reinsurance now a necessity for South African insurers
There has been a marked increase in demand for political violence and terrorism cover (PVT) from South African commercial clients following the riots and looting that rocked KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in July 2021. However, recent amendments by the country’s sole political riot...
RSIS launches innovative cyber insurance solution for businesses
Cybercrime is rapidly increasing in Southern Africa, with the region recording among the highest number of ransomware and business email attacks in Africa. To address this constantly evolving business risk, reinsurance broker, Reinsurance Solutions Intermediary Services (RSIS),...
Securing African brokers' futures on the global reinsurance stage
African reinsurance brokers are not limited to operating on the continent. Given their deep knowledge of emerging markets, African brokers are actually in a unique position to compete in the global reinsurance space. However, this requires brokers to build strong, exportable...
Southern Africa needs flood modelling now more than ever before
In the years between 2017 and 2023, Southern Africa experienced three of its deadliest tropical storms: Cyclone Idai (2019, 1 300 deaths); Cyclone Freddy (2023, 500+ deaths) and tropical storm Dineo (2017, 250 deaths). It also experienced Cyclone Kenneth (2019), Africa’s...
The strategic role of Alternative Risk Transfer in modern risk management
In an environment defined by capital pressure, volatile loss experience and evolving regulatory requirements, insurers, captives, corporates and public entities are increasingly looking beyond traditional reinsurance solutions. Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) has emerged as a...
What Southern Africa's strengthening cyclones mean for local re/insurance
The nature of cyclones in the South Indian Ocean is changing. Storms are becoming more intense and are moving further south within the region, potentially impacting areas outside of the historical Indian Ocean cyclone belt. The result is that countries in future cyclones’...
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