Today’s guest is someone I’m delighted to be welcoming back to the podcast after just under two years.
Back then he was the relatively new CEO at Hannover Re and some of my questioning probed what sort of things he might do differently from his predecessors.
Now into his fourth year in charge and Jean-Jacques Henchoz is the seasoned boss of a reinsurer that has not skipped a beat since its leadership transition.
Very strong growth has continued and results have been excellent.
In the first question in this podcast I dared ask if Hannover Re’s growth streak could continue now that the already 3rd largest reinsurance group in the world is far closer to the number two spot than the number four is to it.
The answer was a very frank “yes for now” and that set the tone for everything that was to follow.
I learned a lot about a huge range of topics, including views on the Ukraine war, Florida, resurgent inflation and the prospects for Cyber ILS.
I also discovered how the strong growth environment has created the conditions that have made Covid reinsurance disputes far fewer in number than we thought they might have been two years ago.
Jean-Jacques is clearly at the top of his game and I couldn’t recommend this episode more highly as not only a crystal-clear view into the reinsurance industry’s standout performer of the past fifteen years, but a really useful primer for the autumn conference season and the testing end of year renewals to come.
LINKS
We thank our naming sponsor AdvantageGo:
https://www.advantagego.com/
We also thank this Episode’s advertising supporter Oxbow Partners
https://oxbowpartners.com/
Ep209 Andy Holmes CEO CFC Underwriting: Look after the loss ratio & everything else looks after itself
Ep208 Gilbert Harrap CEO InsurX: Building a new Insurance Utility
Special Ep David Butler of VIPR: Don't install tech - solve real-world problems
Ep207 Scott Egan SiriusPoint: Chasing the 1%
Ep206 Duncan Dale CEO Dale Underwriting Partners: Excited by the Opportunities
Ep205 Serene Davis & James Orchard of QBE: Stars aligning for Innovation
Ep204 What do Teenagers Think about Insurance?
Ep203 Greg Hendrick Vantage Risk: Best Talent, Best Insights, Best Decisions
Ep202 Kate Markham Hiscox: Do More, Do it Better, Do it Cheaper
Special Ep Guillaume Bonnissent of Quotech: Solving pain points you didn't know you had
Ep201 Natalia Dorfman & James Kench of Kita: Gross Written Carbon
Ep200 Renaud Guidée CEO AXA XL Re: Much more than just a transaction
Ep199 Kera McDonald Swiss Re Corporate Solutions: Trendspotting and Avoiding Passivity
Special Ep Mike Steel Moody's RMS: Answering a whole new set of questions
Ep198 Tom Clementi Pool Re: Taking risk off the State
Ep197 Robert Wiest CEO MS Re: A good plan and the capital to execute it
Special Ep: Ian Summers AdvantageGo and Jeff Cohen Zywave: Let the client choose what they want
Ep196 Melissa Collett CEO Insurtech UK: A sector in its own right
Ep195 Adrian Cox: Beating Inertia
Ep194 1.1.2024 Renewals: It Feels Like The Time is Now
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Commercial Edge: Unleash the Power of People
The emPOWERed Half Hour
Aligned Money Show
Gorse Culture PODcast : The H.R. Detective Agency!
HCI Leadership Revolution
The Ramsey Show
Planet Money