Reinsurance articles

Closing the visibility gap between underwriting and capital needs a CFO-led decision framework, not just a system upgrade.

2026-09-01

The visibility gap between underwriting decisions and capital position means almost nobody at a reinsurer sees both in real time at once.

2026-09-01

Reinsurers can convert incomparable broker submissions into a measurable management process through submission standardisation, data extraction, and quality governance. Learn the operating model.

2026-08-10

Broker submissions that cannot be compared create a silent risk in reinsurance underwriting. Learn why incomparable submission data leads to poor risk selection, pricing errors, and portfolio underperformance.

2026-08-10

Broker submissions that cannot be compared can destroy profitable growth by driving inconsistent risk selection, mispricing, and portfolio-skew. Learn the financial impact on return on capital.

2026-08-10

The board must demand that management prove it governs broker-submission data quality before tolerating incomparable submissions. Learn the governance framework.

2026-08-10

Reinsurance leadership teams must respond to incomparable broker submissions with a strategic decision framework. Learn how the CUO, CFO, and CEO should govern the submission-data quality question.

2026-08-10

Cession rules applied inconsistently create unmeasured balance-sheet exposure. Learn the board-level questions that quantify the net retained exposure from cession inconsistency and the governance response.

2026-08-10

The chief actuary must challenge cession-rule inconsistency because it distorts pricing, reserving, and capital modelling. Learn the actuarial questions that expose cession-driven profit transfer and risk misallocation.

2026-08-10

Cession-rule consistency requires defined data, ownership, and escalation. Learn the operating model that embeds cession rules in systems, assigns accountability, and escalates deviations before they distort the portfolio.

2026-08-10

Cession rules applied inconsistently create silent risk accumulation behind portfolio growth. Learn why inconsistent cession logic distorts risk distribution, undermines treaty performance, and hides in aggregate reports.

2026-08-10

Cession rules applied inconsistently distort portfolio profitability by over-ceding profitable segments and under-ceding volatile ones. Learn the financial impact of cession inconsistency on treaty returns.

2026-08-10

Coverage gaps between layers demand board-level stress testing. Learn the governance questions boards and risk committees should ask to test whether their reinsurance programme can withstand worsening layer-coverage gaps.

2026-08-10

Coverage gaps between layers are an executive decision problem. Learn why CFOs and CROs need a single, integrated view of programme coverage gaps to govern risk appetite, capital allocation, and reinsurance strategy.

2026-08-10

Coverage gaps between layers demand a practical operating model. Learn the process controls, data integration, and governance workflows that close layer gaps before they become retained losses.

2026-08-10

Coverage gaps between layers create a blind spot that drives reinsurance underperformance. Learn how unaddressed gaps in treaty and facultative programmes expose cedents to losses that fall between the layers designed to protect them.

2026-08-10

Coverage gaps between layers create a capital drag that erodes reinsurance profitability. Learn how uninsured exposures at layer boundaries increase capital intensity and depress return on capital in treaty and facultative programmes.

2026-08-10

A single stress scenario can reveal whether currency mismatch threatens your programme's protection. Learn the board-level scenario that tests FX-contingent treaty limits and net retained exposure.

2026-08-10