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The world of risk, capital and investment is becoming more complex every day. Less pronounced rating cycles, alternative capital sources, consolidation pressures, and shifting markets in classes such as cyber, casualty, life and health – these are just some of the factors affecting the market today. In Willis Re you have a reinsurance advisor, with a nearly 200 year pedigree, that embraces and overcomes complexity.

We understand what makes the market tick….

Over 750 insurers and reinsurers around the world trust us to recognize the strategic insurance market issues and trends, and to apply our technical and business area understanding to their own requirements. We work increasingly as broad-based risk advisors, helping our clients manage the full spectrum of risk.

Risk placement, structuring and execution remain fundamental, but the depth of our client support extends to actuarial technology, capital markets, modelling, and active capital and liability management.

Deep risk insight

The use of advanced analytics runs through everything we do; to quantify and manage risks, to optimize capital/earnings, and to promote resilience. As well as the numerous analysis tools we have developed for specific lines of business in the reinsurance market, we can call upon Willis Towers Watson’s wider technical and consultancy expertise that lies behind some of the insurance industry’s most widely used operations software. Our aim is to act as an extension of our clients’ risk and financial management teams.

One team, one goal

That requires a singular focus on clients’ needs. And we make sure these aren’t just empty words by operating with a single P&L that reinforces a culture of integration and seamless service across geographies and lines of business. No matter where our clients reside we bring the best expertise to deliver industry-leading solutions.


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Accident and Health Reinsurance

Organizations are facing challenges posed by sharp increases in large medical claims driven by high cost prescriptions and pressure to find new ways to grow profitably and gain scale.  Willis Re translates those challenges into effective reinsurance, product expansion, capital management and business growth strategies to increase resilience and business value.

Aerospace Reinsurance

Our skies have never been busier. With upwards of 100,000 flights taking off from many thousands of airports across the globe every day, and new objects being launched almost daily to join the roughly 5,000 satellites already in space, the scale and nature of aerospace risks faced by primary insurance writers are constantly changing. Our team offers aerospace reinsurance solutions to keep pace with the developing risks, be they political, economic, commercial or technological.

Agriculture/Crop Reinsurance

With a projected population of nine billion humans to feed by 2050, insurance offers the agriculture sector important stability in the face of weather and environmental threats that pose substantial and volatile financial risks. Our global agriculture team offers specialist expertise, customized technology and local know-how to help insurers better understand their exposures and manage underwriting volatility.

Alternative Distribution Operation

Willis Re ADO helps our clients grow. We assist insurance carriers and/or managing general agents (MGAs) looking to expand their product offering to their distribution. ADO delivers new products written on alternative paper and provides the tools and analytics to facilitate market leading placements of binding authorities, consortia and facilities.

Casualty Reinsurance

In an environment marked by continually changing coverage demands and legal developments, the Willis Re Casualty Segment has the skills and expertise to manage your casualty and general third-party liability reinsurance needs.

Catastrophe Analytics

In a changing world, being equipped with functional risk solutions to assess and quantify catastrophe risk is paramount. The Willis Re View of Catastrophe Risk evaluates the range of models and makes adjustments or builds new solutions when needed, helping our clients form their own view of risk.

Cyber Reinsurance

Cyber exposures impact almost every line of insurance, often making determining where “traditional” coverage ends, and the need for affirmative cyber protection begins, difficult. Willis Re helps clients manage both affirmative and harder-to-measure silent cyber exposures.

Engineering and Construction Reinsurance

In the diverse and evolving world of construction and engineering insurance, our global specialty practice group brings deep sector-specific technical knowledge and advanced analytical capabilities to provide market leading advocacy together with bespoke placement and support.

Enterprise Risk Management

The risk landscape is constantly changing for insurers, their customers and value chains. Faced with the increasing speed and complexity of this change, insurers need continual vigilance to assess and manage risk effectively. Our combined technology and advisory services help insurers generate value from risk as well as manage it.

Financial Advisory

The actions and opinions of regulators and rating agencies can have a profound impact on an insurer’s need for capital and earnings protection. So it pays to build good relationships, stay attuned to what is important to these bodies and have access to a full range of solutions through the reinsurance market.

Health Care Liability Reinsurance

As the health care industry is changing dramatically, insurers cannot be bound by tradition in their approach to the business and product offerings, nor can the reinsurance they rely upon to support their initiatives.

Insurance-Linked Securities at Willis Re

Complementing traditional reinsurance risk transfer solutions, Willis Re helps clients integrate ILS-backed capacity into our customers’ reinsurance and insurance programs.

InsurTech at Willis Re

As a trusted adviser to primary insurers, reinsurers and other corporate clients, Willis Re takes a lead in supporting both market incumbents and new entrants to profit from InsurTech. Opportunities abound for businesses to solidify their position, grow, diversify, and lower expense ratios – if they make sound choices about who and what they work with.

International Credit, Surety and Political Risk Reinsurance

With up to 80% of global trade based on some form of credit or guarantee, our Credit, Surety and Political Risk Reinsurance team offers reinsurance solutions tailored to our clients’ needs whilst keeping pace with the developing risks, be they political, economic, or commercial.

Life & Health Industry - Reinsurance

Life, health and annuity insurance providers face a number of very different challenges, many of which can be solved or at least mitigated by well-designed reinsurance solutions. These can range from basic risk transfer to protect companies against catastrophic claims experience, through to asset intensive liabilities and guarantees which have been made more onerous because of low interest rates. 

Management and Professional Lines Reinsurance

Management and professional lines insurance carriers must increasingly be prepared to underwrite and respond to unprecedented risks. Willis Re’s team provides innovative reinsurance solutions tailored to meet the needs of our clients offering the full spectrum of management and professional lines of business around the world.

Marine and Energy Reinsurance

Achieving profitable returns from complex marine and energy product lines requires a deep understanding of original risk, careful handling of volatile exposures and calibrated financial instruments to manage portfolio exposures. Our Marine and Energy practice helps you realize sustainable returns amid increasingly challenging global economic conditions.

Market Security – Reinsurance

The Market Security Group is a centralized function of Willis Towers Watson reviewing the financial security of reinsurers with which Willis Re works globally. The information the group collects enables Willis Re brokers to help you select your counterparties, based on the carrier’s financial status.

Motor/Auto Reinsurance

In an environment marked by new technology, emerging urban social trends and continually changing legal developments, the Willis Re Motor/Auto team has the necessary skills and expertise to manage your needs.

Property Reinsurance

The threat from climate change, and property insurers’ potentially calamitous exposure to natural catastrophe losses, continue to put solid risk transfer strategy at a premium. Our property team looks beyond the reinsurance transaction to incorporate enterprise risk management and tailored growth opportunities that best meet the needs of your business.

Public and Private Sector Practice Group

With the growing insurance protection gap, governments are assuming higher levels of risk at a sovereign and sub sovereign level. Our Public Private Sector Practice Group helps Governments manage their exposures, supporting disaster resilience and facilitating risk transfer from the public to the private sector helping to close the insurance protection gap.

Public Entity Pooling

The dedicated Willis Re Pooling segment offers the professional support that self-insured groups require to thrive in an increasingly complex risk environment.

Reinsurance Actuarial and Financial Modeling

Willis Re’s Actuarial and Financial Modeling team pairs technical proficiency with practical business sense. We help insurers quantify the financial impacts of risk – and then go one step further, setting the analysis in the proper business context.

Retrocession

The retrocession market is characteristically the most complicated and volatile in terms of capacity and pricing. Willis Re’s team of experts help our clients navigate the global retrocession market in order to structure solutions that best protect capital and enhance earnings.

Structured Reinsurance

Traditional reinsurance solutions are usually effective tools for risk and capital management purposes, but in certain situations more complex structuring techniques can add significant value.

Surety and Fidelity Reinsurance

Surety and fidelity bond premiums have grown in recent years, protecting larger and more diverse risks. We take the time to understand our clients’ business – focusing on the original business first, and then tailoring a reinsurance and/or capital solution that responds to specific needs.

Willis Re Global Client Services

Willis Re global client service teams navigate the complexities of reinsurance coverage, claims and accounting and settlement across the world. Your dedicated client service advocate will provide a tailored service that helps ensure you focus on priorities.

Mortgage Reinsurance

Mortgage Reinsurance combines advanced modeling techniques with in-depth research to help clients manage mortgage/financial risk worldwide.

Workers’ Compensation Reinsurance

Willis Re has one of the largest workers’ compensation segments in the industry, comprising more than 35 individuals with a variety of skill sets and a deep working knowledge of the nuances of this long-tailed business.

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