Reinsurers

Alternative Risk Transfer - Areas of Activity
... risk transfer is often used to refer to activities through which reinsurers or insurers transform risks from the capital markets into insurance or reinsurance form ... Reinsurers were notable participants in the early development of the synthetic CDO and weather derivative markets through such activities ... A subset of activities in which reinsurers take capital markets risks is dual-trigger or multiple trigger contracts ...

Reinsurance - Functions - Arbitrage
... In general, the reinsurer may be able to cover the risk at a lower premium than the insurer because The reinsurer may have some intrinsic cost advantage due to economies of scale or some ... Reinsurers may operate under weaker regulation than their clients ... Reinsurers may operate under a more favourable tax regime than their clients ...

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mc Cloy - Practice Areas - Reinsurance
... Milbank represents both cedants and reinsurers, from trial and appellate cases to mediation and arbitration, in complex disputes involving property/casualty ... Recently, the firm defended a Bermuda-based reinsurer in investigations by US and European regulators into the use of finite/nontraditional reinsurance products ... purported regulation of European life insurers and reinsurers ...

Reinsurance - Reinsurers
... Major reinsurance brokers include Guy Carpenter Aon Corporation Willis Re Cooper Gay Re. ...

Reinsurance - Markets
... Many reinsurance placements are not placed with a single reinsurer but are shared between a number of reinsurers ... $30,000,000 excess of $20,000,000 layer may be shared by 30 or more reinsurers ... The reinsurer who sets the terms (premium and contract conditions) for the reinsurance contract is called the lead reinsurer the other companies subscribing to the contract are called following ...