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How proportional treaty reinsurance is priced
February 16 2026 By Reinsurance Solutions pricing, proportional treaty, cameron cupido
There is often confusion over how proportional treaty pricing is calculated. In a proportional treaty, the reinsurer agrees to take a fixed percentage of the insurer's premiums and pay the same percentage of the insurer's claims in return. Both premium and loss are shared proportionally, so pricing is built around what that share of the cedent's results might look like. The pricing of proportional reinsurance is not based on a single, standalone ...
Read MoreThe critical role of data quality in proportional treaty pricing
January 26 2026 By Reinsurance Solutions proportional treaty pricing, treaty reinsurance
As reinsurance markets continue to harden both globally and across South Africa, reinsurers are demanding deeper transparency, stronger justification for pricing assumptions, and credible data that stands up to scrutiny. The result is a renewed focus on how proportional treaties are priced - and why the quality of information that cedents provide has become a defining factor in pricing outcomes. At RSIS, working across multiple portfolios, we see...
Read MorePart Two Advanced facultative reinsurance: a new approach to risk management
December 05 2025 By Blessing advanced facultative reinsurance, facultative reinsurance solutions, parametric facultative insurance, blessing chiguye
My previous article, Facultative reinsurance: the need for more advanced solutions, looked at the shortcomings of the traditional approach of facultative reinsurance. It also examined the current pressures redefining the reinsurance industry and how a customisable, diversified approach is now needed if insurers are going to be protected from systemic risks. This article unpacks the various types of advanced facultative reinsurance solutions and t...
Read MorePart One Facultative reinsurance: the need for more advanced solutions
November 28 2025 By Blessing Chiguye facultative reinsurance, blessing chiguye
Traditionally, facultative reinsurance has adopted a single-risk approach. However this has become limiting, as market conditions have changed and presented underwriters with new, unprecedented challenges. These factors, combined with escalating volatility, are driving the need for more sophisticated reinsurance solutions. To understand the need for advanced solutions, we first have to acknowledge the complex risk landscape in which our industry ...
Read MoreRSIS welcomes Delia Wood as Executive Head of Broking
November 07 2025 By Reinsurance Solutions delia woods, executive broker
Reinsurance Solutions Intermediary Services (RSIS) has expanded its team of reinsurance professionals with the appointment of Delia Wood to the position of Executive Head of Broking, effective 1 November 2025. Delia oversees the day-to-day broking of existing RSIS business, enhances operational efficiency, and drives new business development initiatives in South Africa. With proven expertise in strategic business development, client retention, le...
Read MoreSecuring African brokers' futures on the global reinsurance stage
September 15 2025 By Reinsurance Solutions africa, skills, reinsurance
African reinsurance brokers are not limited to operating on the continent. Given their deep knowledge of emerging markets, African brokers are in a unique position to compete in the global reinsurance space. However, this requires brokers to build strong, exportable skills and develop robust cross-border talent pipelines. Exportable skills are those that are in high demand by reinsurers and their clients. They focus on core and future-forward com...
Read MoreSecuring African brokers' futures on the global reinsurance stage
August 12 2025 By Cameron Cupido african reinsurance, global reinsurance, broker skills, catastrophe modelling, insurtech, compliance standards, cross-border placements, broker networks, remote reinsurance support, talent development, global partnerships, industry advocacy., cameron cupido
African reinsurance brokers are not limited to operating on the continent. Given their deep knowledge of emerging markets, African brokers are in a unique position to compete in the global reinsurance space. However, this requires brokers to build strong, exportable skills and develop robust cross-border talent pipelines. Exportable skills are those that are in high demand by reinsurers and their clients. They focus on core and future-forward com...
Read MoreShelley Lotz appointed Finance Manager at Reinsurance Solutions
August 01 2025 By Reinsurance Solutions
Reinsurance Solutions has appointed Shelley Lotz as Finance Manager for Reinsurance Solutions Intermediary Solutions. She will be responsible for overseeing the entire finance function of the business. She is a highly skilled finance professional with more than 18 years' experience in financial reporting, regulatory compliance, and group consolidation across multiple jurisdictions. Shelley has extensive experience in managing financial reporting...
Read MoreWhat Southern Africa's strengthening cyclones mean for local re/insurance
June 10 2025 By Reinsurance Solutions climate change, natural disasters, risk modelling, south indian ocean, africa weather, catastrophe modelling, climate risk
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' southerly paths may not be adequately prepared for these natural disasters and insurers, not correctly positioned to cover the losses. There are seven tropical cyclones basins a...
Read MoreDaisy Piemontese appointed broker at Reinsurance Solutions
June 05 2025 By Reinsurance Solutions
Reinsurance Solutions has appointed Daisy Piemontese to the position of broker in its Mauritius office. Piemontese will be responsible for the day-to-day broking of existing business, as well as driving new business opportunities across key markets in Southern Africa. She joins the team from Global Alliance Seguros where she was a senior non-life underwriter. "We are confident that Daisy will be a valuable asset to our team and to our clients' b...
Read MoreAfrican maritime insurance more critical than ever as piracy surges
April 24 2025 By Reinsurance Solutions marine insurance, maritime, piracy
Maritime piracy in East Indian Ocean waters has returned after a decade of relative calm in this area, with Somali pirates launching renewed attacks on vessels routing past the Horn of Africa. This has once again highlighted the importance of marine re/insurance to assist ship and cargo owners, as well as African companies, in mitigating the financial risks associated with international shipping. This increase in piracy comes off the back of the ...
Read MoreSouthern African reinsurance trend forecast for 2025
February 27 2025 By Reinsurance Solutions
The year has got off to a busy start for Southern African reinsurers. Cyclones in December and January caused fatalities, casualties and extensive damage in Mozambique and Madagascar; political violence in Mozambique left hundreds dead; and severe flooding affected South Africa and Botswana. While political violence and terrorism remain constant perils on the continent, climate-related risk is expected to increase in the year ahead. Increased dem...
Read MoreBankers Blanket Bond: A shield against rising occupational fraud
December 06 2024 By Reinsurance Solutions bbb insurance, bankers blanket bond
Global financial institutions recorded a staggering 40% increase in occupational fraud between 2018 and 2022* while worldwide occupational fraud losses topped $42 billion** last year. Occupational fraud, perpetrated by employees within the organisation, poses a significant threat to the banking sector. Such misconduct, if left unchecked, can have far-reaching consequences, potentially leading to substantial financial losses and reputational dam...
Read MoreParametric insurance - a lifeline for Africa
November 12 2024 By Reinsurance Solutions parametric insurance, natural disasters
In the face of growing climate change-related events, parametric insurance is being touted as the best possible protection for businesses operating in Africa. The World Economic Forum goes as far as to say that 'it could become a key part of the relief capital mix' as it offers a quick and relatively low-cost insurance solution. With many clients operating in industries at the forefront of climate change risks in Africa, Reinsurance Solutions has...
Read MoreCEO to CEO: The most challenging risks facing re/insurers right now
May 22 2024 By Cameron Cupido cameron cupido, risks, threats
As a South African CEO plotting a course through these challenging times, I wanted to reach out to other CEOs and share my personal insights around pressing issues, but also opportunities, in the hope this opens up dialogue around the current climate and topical matters impacting South African businesses. If you would prefer to opt out of these personal communications, please do so here. The most challenging risks facing re/insurers right now Inc...
Read MoreReinsurance Solutions, Fortree Management Services join forces in captive re/insurance offering
May 10 2024 By Reinsurance Solutions captive insurance, fortree, mauritius
Reinsurance Solutions has entered into a strategic partnership with Mauritius-based financial services provider, Fortree Management Services, to provide local, African and global clients with access to pure captive re/insurance. Working with Mauritian regulators, the collaboration seeks to make Mauritius a preferred pure captive insurance jurisdiction in the world, providing a comprehensive service to potential captive owners or businesses wantin...
Read MoreMajor trends shaping Southern African reinsurance in 2024
March 26 2024 By Byron Govender reinsurance, renewals, trends, 2024
Reinsurers want to understand where and why specific cover is being deployed; they want their cover to be valued; and they will continue to favourably support insurers writing multiple lines, as this ensures market diversity. These were among the key insights coming out of Reinsurance Solutions Intermediary Services' (RSIS) recent contract renewal process with cedants, which revealed a number of trends currently influencing the reinsurance sector...
Read MoreA cyber insurance solution for African businesses
February 21 2024 By Bervin Momba insurance, reinsurance, cyber insurance, bervin momba
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. Latest tech leads to more damaging attacks The most common form of cybercrime facing both businesses and individuals is phishing, notes London-based IT services provider, AAG. In 2021, 323 972 internet u...
Read MoreImproved management for climate change-related risks proposed: what this means for insurers
December 05 2023 By Thato Raboroko
There has been increased focus in recent years on climate-related risk and the challenge this poses for insurers. In South Africa, recent significant flooding events have raised the profile of climate change and its impact on the safety and soundness of individual insurance institutions, as well as the broader insurance sector. It is off the back of this that in August 2023, South Africa's Prudential Authority (PA) - the supervisory arm of the SA...
Read MoreReinsurance Solutions Zambia awarded trading licence
December 01 2023 By Reinsurance Solutions reinsurance, africa, souther africa, zambia
Reinsurance Solutions Zambia, the local office of the global Reinsurance Solutions Group, has been awarded a trading licence effective 1 December 2023 by the Pension and Insurance Authority (PIA). Bervin Momba, MD of Reinsurance Solutions Zambia, made the announcement today on behalf of the company's board of directors. Reinsurance Solutions Zambia was founded in Lusaka on 11 October 2022. It provides superior reinsurance broking solutions to the...
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