Nick Hankin: What Earns a Cedent More Capacity | TRP #178
Nick Hankin spent thirty years buying reinsurance at RSA, Zurich, AXA, AIG and Aviva. Now he runs QBE Re, and he is unusually direct about which cedents get his capacityand which part of the book quie...
25 Aug 27min
Build an MGA That Keeps Growing | TRP #177
There's a reliable way to spot a boom in insurance: count the conferences. Cyber got its own, then AI, and now MGA events have taken over the calendar. Tom Spier joins Cordy on The Reinsurance Podcast...
18 Aug 19min
One Spreadsheet Error Away From Disaster | TRP #176
Every reinsurance office has a spreadsheet only one person understands, and this episode is about why that's the industry's biggest quiet risk. Jerad and Ben start by defending spreadsheets properly, ...
11 Aug 29min
Maurits Van Joolingen: The Insurability Crisis No One Is Pricing In | TRP #175
Everyone in reinsurance obsesses over the claims side of the balance sheet: what happens when things go wrong. Maurits Van Joolingen, Managing Director of Climate Scenarios & Sustainability at Ortec F...
4 Aug 21min
James Rendell: Why Your Cat Model Is Blind to Secondary Perils | TRP #175
Better cat modelling isn't just about avoiding bad risk, it's about finding and writing the good risk your competitors are mispricing. James Rendell, CEO of BirdsEyeView, saw that gap and convinced th...
14 Jul 26min
2030 Reinsurance Predictions We Might Regret | TRP #174
Jerad and Ben skip the small talk and jump straight to 2030, asking the one question worth asking about AI and reinsurance: what actually changes, and what's just getting a shinier coat of paint. They...
7 Jul 29min
Why Brokers Lose Clients (and How to Fix It) | TRP #173
Reinsurance brokers are famous for remembering the small things — the underwriter's dog, the client's restaurant preference at Monte Carlo, whose birthday party they attended last spring. Less famous ...
30 Jun 24min
How to Win a Soft Market Without Burning Bridges | TRP #172
In a softening reinsurance market, it’s tempting to chase the cheapest capacity, squeeze every last point out of pricing, and call it a win. But that’s how you burn bridges. In this episode, Ben and J...
10 Jun 24min
