Reinsurance articles

Renewal negotiations conducted without scenario trade-offs create material balance-sheet consequences that compound across treaty years. Learn how unmodelled term changes increase net retained reserves, consume capital, and weaken the solvency position.

2026-08-10

The board must ask specific questions about technical price overrides to govern the portfolio's pricing discipline. Learn the board-level questions that expose ungoverned overrides and the governance response.

2026-08-10

Fixing technical price overrides before the next renewal requires an operating model that tracks, tests, and limits every override. Learn the practical process for building override governance into the underwriting workflow.

2026-08-10

Technical price overridden without accountability allows commercial adjustments to accumulate, eroding underwriting margin without any single owner or performance test. Learn how ungoverned overrides become a systemic P&L risk.

2026-08-10

Reinsurance CEOs must decide the governance framework for technical price overrides—the authority structure, the aggregate limit, and the accountability—before the lack of governance erodes the portfolio's margin. Learn the CEO's decision framework.

2026-08-10

Technical price overrides without accountability carry a margin cost that accumulates across the portfolio, reducing return on capital and eroding underwriting profitability. Learn how to quantify the margin impact of ungoverned overrides.

2026-08-10

Fixing treaty structures that no longer match the portfolio requires operating controls that run before the renewal clock starts. Learn the process framework for structural remediation in treaty and facultative reinsurance.

2026-08-10

Treaty structures that no longer match the portfolio erode margin silently. Learn how misaligned attachments, limits, and cessions destroy reinsurance profitability and depress return on capital in treaty and facultative programmes.

2026-08-10

Treaty structures that no longer match the portfolio create silent accumulation risk. Learn how outdated attachments, limits, and cessions expose reinsurers to yesterday's exposure mix and what risk management must change.

2026-08-10

Treaty structures that no longer match the portfolio demand board-level oversight. Learn the governance questions every board should ask about treaty alignment, risk appetite, and reinsurance programme effectiveness.

2026-08-10

Treaty structures that no longer match the portfolio demand CEO-level decisions. Learn the executive framework for diagnosing structural drift, prioritising remediation, and protecting enterprise value in treaty and facultative reinsurance.

2026-08-10

Reinsurers must build a decision-ready view of their underwriting appetite to govern it effectively. Learn the data, metrics, and framework.

2026-08-10

An over-broad underwriting appetite raises fundamental capital allocation questions. Learn how breadth dilutes capital efficiency and return on equity.

2026-08-10

An underwriting appetite too broad for governance creates material balance-sheet exposure. Learn the board-level questions that quantify the exposure and the governance framework that controls it.

2026-08-10

An over-broad underwriting appetite forces leadership trade-offs between growth, governance, and return on capital. Learn the executive decision framework.

2026-08-10

An underwriting appetite too broad to govern creates executive risk by diffusing accountability. Learn how an ungovernable appetite undermines risk selection and portfolio strategy.

2026-08-10

The board must apply a risk-appetite test to underwriting exceptions: when does the aggregate exception volume push the portfolio outside the board-approved appetite? Learn the governance framework boards need.

2026-08-10

Reinsurers can build an early-warning system that detects when underwriting exceptions are becoming the rule before the portfolio's risk profile drifts beyond the approved appetite. Learn the data, triggers, and escalation model.

2026-08-10