Hannover Re acts as a transformer to facilitate the transfer of life & health and property & casualty (re)insurance risks to capital markets in catastrophe bond or other suitable form. We partner with banks and brokers - always in an effort to come up with the best transaction for our clients. We provide various kinds of services in the area of insurance-linked securities.
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We facilitate individual reinsurance cessions to institutional investors by way of collateralised reinsurance. Hence, Hannover Re can write reinsurance contracts for you and pass on this reinsurance risk to you on a collateralised basis. This can be achieved either via retrocession or through a swap. By entering into such an agreement you gain advantages such as:
Additionally, Hannover Re invests in insurance-linked securities (ILS) as the anchor investor in the Luxembourg ILS investment company Leine Investment. Leine Investment is open to third parties, thus allowing the alignment of your investments with Hannover Re's ILS investment positions.
Placing insurance risk in the capital markets is not necessarily easy. Companies wishing to diversify their reinsurance panel in this way face questions such as:
Numerous insurance companies have decided that the challenges are outweighed by the benefits of a capital market placement, which include: