Rethinking Renewals - Optimizing Reinsurance Purchasing

Описание: At a time when many traditional catastrophe (cat) reinsurance treaties have seen a welcome rate reduction, the renewal environment presents unique opportunities and challenges. How can your organization ensure it achieves the optimal protection from its complete reinsurance program?

Are there additional covers needed that can help maintain company ratings and capital resilience through the year - particularly faced with the on-going threat of severe convective storms (SCS)?

Webinar Highlights
Carrier perspective: Assessing the financial impact of cats versus severe convective storms over the last several years, with Jake Black (CEO, CFM Insurance and the new Ember Mutuals).

Rating agency insight: Understand how rating companies reflect losses, combined ratios, and reinsurance protection when determining overall ratings, with Joe Petrelli (Founder and President, Demotech).

ROI deep-dive: Discover what recoveries you can expect from traditional cat reinsurance versus working-layer SCS solutions, and learn how budget saved at renewal can still be redeployed to fund SCS coverages, with Matt Coleman (President Reinsurance, Demex).

Summary and Live Q&A with the panel

Video timings:

2.56 min - Jake Black CEO CFM Insurance and Ember Mutuals
overview of the challenges faced by his firm from severe convective storms and the effectiveness of his reinsurance program

6.48 min - Joe Petrelli Founder and CEO Demotech
Hear how ratings companies reflect losses, combined ratios and reinsurance protection – both indemnity and parametric – when determining overall ratings.

11.34 min - Matt Coleman President Reinsurance, Demex
What Demex has seen in terms of recoveries from more traditional reinsurance programs and other options. He also discusses opportunities to further optimize reinsurance programs for 2026

Questions
21.14 min - How do you account for earnings volatility when rating carriers?

24.52 min - How different was the evaluation process for renewing your SCS reinsurance solution having had a recovery last year, compared to when you first purchased the product? / Do you see parametric solutions filling the gaps in traditional reinsurance or are they mostly additive protection?

28.45 min - What levels of basis risk are you seeing with the Demex reinsurance solution?