March 3, 2025
Pool Re, Britain’s government-backed terrorism reinsurer, has completed placement of a new retrocession programme with more than 60 international reinsurers. The placement provides £2.75 billion ($3.5 billion) aggregate excess of loss cover, increased from £2.4 billion ($3.0 billion), with Hannover …
May 10, 2022
Pool Re, Britain’s leading terrorism reinsurer, announced the most significant reduction in its reinsurance pricing in 20 years. The reduction, which will come into effect in October 2022, will vary according to geographical location. Pool Re aims to enable the …
March 24, 2022
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Aon and Pool Re. A summary of these new hires follows here. Aon Names WTW’s Forrest as Global CEO of Insurance Consulting Team, Reinsurance Solutions Aon plc, the global professional services …
January 18, 2022
The Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies (CCRS) at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School is launching a new research consortium that aims to find ways to protect society against future systemic risks. Funding will be provided by an international …
July 8, 2021
Pool Re, Britain’s leading terrorism reinsurer, announced the launch of “Re:New,” an advisory group that will explore how to protect the UK economy from systemic risks. Re:New will unite experts from insurance, government, industry, academia and beyond to explore how …
December 9, 2020
There aren’t many contexts where $2 trillion seems like a paltry sum. Then a pandemic comes along. The economic fallout from COVID-19 has left insurers issuing existential warnings and businesses discovering they weren’t covered. It’s resulted in courts packed with …
April 21, 2020
UK Insurance industry leaders have combined to form a steering group, which will work with terrorism reinsurer Pool Re, with the primary objective to ensure that, working alongside the industry to support customers and communities in the current crisis, the …
March 4, 2020
Pool Re, a leading British terrorism reinsurer, said it has completed placement of its £2.4 billion retrocession program with more than 50 international reinsurers, led by Munich Re. Hannover Re also provided a significant part of the coverage. The £2.4 …
January 6, 2020
Pool Re, Britain’s leading terrorism reinsurer, announced it is taking steps to help reduce costs and improve the accessibility of terrorism insurance for businesses in the U.K., in part by expanding the definition of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). The …
November 12, 2019
Pool Re, Britain’s government-backed terrorism reinsurer, has launched of Pool Re “Solutions,” a specialist unit created to support its member insurers and their policyholders by sharing the understanding and partnerships it has established over 25 years of reinsuring terrorism risk. …