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Reinsurance Intelligence
This page collects InsureSouk line intelligence connected to Reinsurance, including source-reviewed highlights, companies, countries, trackers, regulatory context, analysis, and reader cautions where available.
United States / global insurance and reinsurance context
Company
Berkshire Hathaway Insurance Operations
Line / segment
GEICO; Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group; Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group
Reporting / source period
Annual-report and operating-company context reviewed 2026-06-23
Reviewed
June 23, 2026
Berkshire Hathaway annual reports provide the official source base for insurance operating-company context, including primary insurance, personal auto, reinsurance, and large-risk transfer references.
Why it matters: Berkshire's insurance operations are important to insurance-market readers because they connect underwriting, reinsurance, float, and long-term capital.
Sovereign disaster risk financing, agricultural insurance, property catastrophe risk insurance, and scalable social protection
Reporting / source period
Program established 2010
Source date
June 20, 2026
Reviewed
June 22, 2026
The World Bank describes DRFI as supporting financial protection strategies for governments, homeowners, businesses, agricultural producers, and low-income populations.
Why it matters: The source anchors protection-gap tracking in disaster-risk-financing tools beyond private insurance alone.
The OECD legal instrument provides a public policy reference for disaster risk financing strategies.
Why it matters: It helps frame protection-gap analysis around ex ante financing, public policy, and risk-transfer strategy rather than only post-event losses.
Lloyd's reported total capital, reserves, and subordinated loan notes of GBP 49.8 billion at 31 December 2025.
Why it matters: Lloyd's is a major specialty insurance and reinsurance marketplace, so its disclosed capital base is a useful public anchor for capacity context.
Insurance-linked securities and alternative risk transfer
Reporting / source period
Current market reports page
Source date
January 1, 2026
Reviewed
June 22, 2026
Artemis maintains a public page for catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market reports, with page metadata showing a 2026-01-01 modification date.
Why it matters: Catastrophe bonds and ILS are an important public lens on alternative reinsurance capital.
Primary sources reviewed: Aon official site, Aon Investor Relations, NYSE Aon quote page, Aon is treated as a broker/adviser and professional-services profile, not as...
Primary sources reviewed: Swiss Re About Us, Swiss Re Annual Report 2025, Swiss Re Solvency & Ratings, Swiss Re Financial strength ratings, Swiss Re...
Aon is a global professional-services firm tracked by InsureSouk for its relevance to commercial risk, reinsurance broking, risk capital, analytics, health, wealth, and human-capital advisory. Business Overview Aon is not profiled by InsureSouk as an underwriting insurance carrier.…
Insurance broker and professional-services firmHQ: United KingdomLast reviewed:
Berkshire Hathaway Insurance Operations is tracked by InsureSouk as an operating platform within Berkshire Hathaway Inc., not as a standalone insurance carrier profile. Business Overview Berkshire Hathaway's insurance operations include GEICO, Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group, and Berkshire Hathaway…
Insurance operations within a diversified holding companyHQ: United StatesLast reviewed:
Chubb is a global insurance group tracked by InsureSouk for its relevance to commercial property and casualty insurance, personal insurance, accident and health, reinsurance, and life insurance. Business Overview Chubb describes itself as a world leader in insurance.…
Insurer and reinsurerHQ: SwitzerlandLast reviewed:
Lloyd's is tracked by InsureSouk as a global insurance and reinsurance marketplace rather than as a conventional single-carrier profile. Business Overview Lloyd's is a marketplace for insurance and reinsurance risk, with underwriting carried out through syndicates and supported…
Insurance and reinsurance marketplaceHQ: United KingdomLast reviewed:
Marsh McLennan is a global professional-services firm tracked by InsureSouk for its relevance to insurance broking, risk advisory, reinsurance broking, capital advisory, benefits, workforce advice, and management consulting. Business Overview Marsh McLennan operates through Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer,…
Insurance broker and professional-services firmHQ: United StatesLast reviewed:
Munich Re is a global reinsurance and insurance group tracked by InsureSouk for its relevance to reinsurance capacity, primary insurance, risk modelling, specialty insurance, and emerging-risk transfer. Business Overview Munich Re describes itself as one of the top…
Reinsurer, primary insurer and risk-solutions providerHQ: GermanyLast reviewed:
Swiss Re is a global reinsurance and risk-solutions group tracked by InsureSouk for its relevance to property and casualty reinsurance, life and health reinsurance, corporate risk solutions, and insurance-market resilience. Business Overview Swiss Re describes its purpose around…
Reinsurer and commercial insurance risk-solutions providerHQ: SwitzerlandLast reviewed:
Related countries / markets
Country and market profiles where this line is part of the market context.
Bermuda is a specialist insurance and reinsurance market with relevance to catastrophe risk, specialty insurance, captive insurance, and international risk transfer. Market Overview Bermuda is relevant to InsureSouk because it is closely associated with reinsurance, specialty insurance, captive…
France is a large European insurance market with activity across life and savings products, protection, health-related cover, property and casualty insurance, commercial risks, and reinsurance. Market Overview France is relevant to InsureSouk because it combines a substantial domestic…
Germany is a major European insurance market with domestic insurance activity, globally active insurance groups, reinsurance capacity, pension-related business, and large commercial and industrial risk-transfer needs. Market Overview Germany combines a large domestic economy with insurance groups that…
India is a large and strategically important insurance market with activity across life insurance, health insurance, motor, general insurance, reinsurance, distribution, and insurance inclusion. Market Overview India's insurance market is shaped by population scale, household protection needs, health…
Saudi Arabia is one of the core Gulf insurance markets for InsureSouk coverage. The market is important because insurance is connected to health coverage, motor liability, business activity, large projects, household protection, and the wider development of the…
Singapore is an Asia-Pacific insurance market and financial centre with activity across life, health, general insurance, specialty insurance, reinsurance, and regional risk-management services. Market Overview Singapore's insurance market is relevant beyond its domestic population because the jurisdiction is…
Switzerland is an important European insurance market and home jurisdiction for internationally active insurance and reinsurance groups. Market Overview Switzerland combines domestic insurance activity with global insurance and reinsurance group operations. The market is relevant for life insurance,…
The United Arab Emirates is a Gulf insurance market with activity across personal, commercial, health, motor, specialty, and reinsurance-linked business. The market is relevant to InsureSouk because it combines a large expatriate population, compulsory and employer-linked coverages, regional…
The United Kingdom is a major insurance market and an important global reference point for specialty insurance, life insurance, pensions, reinsurance, broking, and London-market activity. Market Overview The UK market combines retail personal-lines insurance, commercial property and casualty,…
The United States is a large and diverse insurance market with state-based regulation, national coordination through insurance regulators, federal monitoring through the Federal Insurance Office, and major activity across property and casualty, life, annuities, health, specialty insurance, and…
North AmericaLast reviewed:
Related trackers
Tracker and data-product references connected to this line.
A source-led guide to reading disaster-risk financing, public scheme, protection-gap, catastrophe, and reinsurance references without turning them into scheme rankings or coverage advice.
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A source-led guide to reading property and casualty claims, catastrophe, protection-gap, and market-size references without turning them into pricing, coverage, or ranking claims.
A source-led guide to reading reinsurer group equity, revenue, solvency, capital, marketplace, and carrier reporting without turning public figures into capacity claims.
A source-led guide to separating broker/adviser, marketplace, carrier, reinsurer, operating-platform, and listed-company signals before using insurance company references.
A source-led guide to separating public ILS market signals, broker commentary, and traditional reinsurer capacity references without inferring live capacity or placement terms.
Catastrophe-risk analysis can go wrong when three different source types are blended into one conclusion: climate-risk references, protection-gap references, and reinsurance-capacity signals. InsureSouk separates those source paths across the Climate and Catastrophe Risk Tracker, the Protection Gap Tracker,…
Insurance rule changes rarely mean one simple thing. A policy statement, discussion paper, consultation, circular, rulebook page, or official legal text can each sit at a different stage of the regulatory process. InsureSouk's Insurance Regulation Change Tracker is…
Reinsurance capacity is easy to overstate if every public capital figure is read as immediately available protection. InsureSouk's Reinsurance Capacity Watch is built to slow that reading down: each signal needs its source, period, line, region, and caveat…
Swiss Re's sigma work and IAIS's NatCat protection-gap special topic edition frame natural catastrophe losses as more than a property-insurance pricing problem: the gap between economic losses and insured losses affects households, businesses, public balance sheets, reinsurers, and…
IAIS's 2025 supervisory materials connect private credit, geoeconomic fragmentation, AI adoption, Life and Health structural shifts, and asset-intensive Reinsurance into one governance question: can supervisors see how changing assets, models, and cross-border risk transfer affect insurer resilience? For…