The growth of alternative capital is giving buyers more flexibility to build diversified reinsurance programmes, with cedents increasingly seeking partners able to access both traditional and alternative sources of capacity, Guy Carpenter’s Jennifer Paretchan recently told Reinsurance News.
Speaking following the release of the firm’s July 2026 reinsurance renewal report, Paretchan noted the expansion of dedicated alternative reinsurance capital had become one of the defining themes of the mid-year renewals.
According to the executive, this development has been building gradually over a number of years, but at 1.7, it “finally manifested” in a meaningful way.
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