Guy Carpenter

Guy Carpenter — Broker-observed reinsurance renewal pricing panel plus an in-house peril and weather research layer. The pricing side is a rate-on-line index series segmented by line and market (global property catastrophe, property retrocession, casualty treaty, cyber, specialty, facultative, catastrophe bonds, D&O), by region, by treaty structure (quota share versus surplus, pro-rata versus excess), by loss-impacted versus non-loss-impacted programme, and by attachment layer — with ceding-commission movements tracked alongside price. The second, more unusual layer is in-house generated: the…

Guy Carpenter offers (Price, Alternative, Fundamental, Geospatial) — Published layer: per-renewal prints across roughly eight line/market sections at each January and mid-year round, plus long-run capital and cat-bond-limit series — order of a few thousand published data points. Underlying layer: one of the world's largest reinsurance intermediaries, so treaty placement, quote and renewal records feeding the rate-on-line index plausibly run to tens of thousands of programme-renewal observations per year across all lines. The peril layer adds a multi-decade hurricane/weather archive behind each seasonal outlook. No counts published — request panel dimensions and archive length at outreach..

Reinsurance cycle timing and mid-year deployment decisions (the report explicitly tracks unspent capacity and first-half deployment); rate-on-line benchmarking by peril, region, treaty structure and layer for cedent renewal strategy; retrocession demand and buyer-population tracking; catastrophe-bond supply and pricing analysis; parametric product design and trigger calibration for secondary perils where protection gaps are widening; alternative-capital penetration measurement; casualty and D&O reinsurance pricing models; seasonal hurricane risk positioning before the Atlantic season; and verification of reinsurer-disclosed rate change against an independent broker measure

Coverage spans US, UK, Europe; Reinsurance, Insurance Brokers; price, alternative, fundamental, geospatial; derivatives, structured_products, fixed_income, equities.