Run-off / Legacy

Global run-off reserves swell to $1.13tr, casualty leads the charge
8 September 2025   Deals dip but sector ‘well placed’ for future flow, cementing its all-seasons status: PwC.

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New ways of looking at legacy insurance, new territories and convergence with live business are causing the market to grow fast. But there could be some bumps ahead, an Intelligent Insurer panel says.
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A thriving run-off market for the year ahead is still getting mixed signals from developed and emerging economies, a report from GILC has revealed.
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Despite its size and long track record, run-off specialist RiverStone has not sought the profile of some of its rivals. After a successful 12 months of new deals, that is starting to change, as the company’s Luke Tanzer tells Intelligent Insurer.
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There have been several interesting transactions in the past six months as a number of serial consolidators have looked to take advantage of a growing desire on the part of insurers to move certain blocks of business off their books
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As more insurers regard the use of run-off as a mainstream strategic tool, so investors have responded—backing the launch and growth of specialist consolidators geared up to buying and managing portfolios of business in run-off. Intelligent Insurer reports.
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At the start of 2017 Premia Holdings, a company dedicated to the run-off market, was founded on Bermuda with $500 million of capital—a deal that represented one of the biggest capital raisings in the sector. In an interview first published in sister publication Bermuda:Re+ILS, CEO Bill O’Farrell explains why he expects fast growth in the run-off sector.
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With the UK non-life sector reaching maturity, legacy acquirers are looking to expand in the US and continental Europe, says Dave Scasbrook of Swiss Re
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Amid the rapid growth of the run-off market and its changing nature in recent years, some industry practitioners like to predict what the future may hold for the development of this sector. We collated some of these predictions for 2017.
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14 March 2024   Appointee to also oversee and evaluate Compre’s retrospective reinsurance transactions.
12 February 2024   Marco Re is formed through the merger of Guernsey carriers Humboldt Re and Kelvin Re.
10 January 2024   Pallas Re to reinsure nearly €200m of reserves across France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
9 January 2024   Canopius Group founder to chair the Bermuda-based company.
17 February 2023   Enstar to provide $900m of cover above $1.9bn of ceded reserves for a diversified portfolio.
6 January 2023   The $341m legacy deal relates to coal dust, asbestos, silica, and other exposures.
30 August 2022   The sale follows ‘measured and controlled approach to withdrawing from Lloyd’s.’
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