iNED - Outwards Reinsurance Market Dynamics 2025

iNED will lauch its 2025 programme with a deep dive into the reinsurance market.

Reinsurance programmes sit at the centre of enabling any insurer to operate within its risk appetite, manage earnings volatility and optimise capital efficiency. As market dynamics evolve, the design and efficacy of the outwards reinsurance programme is very relevant for all insurers and their NEDs.

This Forum will provide delegates with an understanding of the recently completed 1/1 renewal season, as well as a view of how the market is expected to develop as we move through 2025. It will also deliver key insights into top market trends, themes, and market opportunities. There will also be specific sections of the Forum focused on reinsurance for Cyber, US Casualty and Legacy Management, as well as a Q&A session when delegates will be able to put their questions.

This will be an in-person Forum hosted by Aon in the Aon Centre. The speakers will be Rupert Moore, CEO for Aon Reinsurance Solutions UK, Michael Van Slooten, Head of Market Insights, Barry Gale, Global Head of Legacy and Alex Podmore from the Cyber Reinsurance Solutions leadership team.

Learning Objectives

By attending this Forum, delegates should be able to:

• Articulate the key highlights of the recent 1/1 reinsurance renewal season.
• Describe key reinsurance market trends, themes, and opportunities.
• Identify specific issues around placing Cyber programmes.
• Explain US Casualty adverse development patterns and how they can be managed.
• Better challenge the design and efficacy of their respective organisation’s outwards reinsurance programme.

Speaker(s)

Rupert Moore
CEO, Aon Reinsurance Solutions

Rupert Moore is CEO for Aon Reinsurance Solutions in the UK and was appointed in 2022. Prior to this, he was CEO of the Aon Reinsurance Solutions Japan business, and was based in Tokyo from 2013 to 2022.

Rupert has been with Aon since 2000 when he joined the Aon Ltd Graduate Trainee program, spending time in Terrorism, Marine & Energy Re, M&A Group and the Aon Re US (Chicago) Banking and Analytics team.

Rupert holds an MA (Hons) Economics from Edinburgh University.

Mike Van Slooten
Aon Reinsurance Solutions

Mike Van Slooten joined Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions division in 2010 as co-Head of Market Analysis and now operates under the umbrella of the UK Capital Advisory team. He is recognised as a leading commentator on the state of the reinsurance market, with more than 25 years of knowledge and experience in this arena. His principal focus is on delivering data and insight that benefits Aon’s reinsurance and retrocession clients.

Mike has spent most of his career with the major reinsurance broking firms and has a background in reinsurance counterparty credit risk analysis.

Barry Gale
Global Head of Legacy, Aon

Barry is the Global Head of Legacy at Aon. He has worked in the legacy / run-off market for over 20 years and advised on his first deal in 2010. In that time, he has executed over 35 legacy deals, supporting many large (re)insurance groups such as Zurich, AIG, Allianz, Aviva, AXA, Hiscox, and QBE with legacy transactions in the UK, Lloyd’s, the US, Germany, Italy, Spain, Bermuda, Hong Kong and Australia.

Barry is increasingly supporting clients with ADCs as well as LPTs and company sales as the market continues to adapt to client needs. He has executed deals with all of the largest legacy reinsurers and has excellent relationships with all markets. He has also worked closely with a number of investors that have acquired businesses in the sector and is a frequent commentator on it.

Prior to joining Aon, he held a similar role at KPMG, an early market leader in the sector.

Barry is a Chartered Accountant.

Alex Podmore
Aon Reinsurance Solutions

Alex forms part of Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions Cyber leadership team and is based in London. Alex joined Aon in October 2023 and works across a range of Aon’s Cyber broking clients from Global insurance companies to Lloyd’s syndicates. Prior to joining Aon, Alex was Lead Cyber Reinsurance Underwriter at Swiss Re. He previously worked in treaty underwriting for both RenRe and Tokio Millennium Re. He holds the ACII qualification.