Reinsurance Solutions

Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions mission is to advise and provide solutions on financial risk management to empower stability in African economies. We strive towards being the trusted advisor for Aon Reinsurance and pride ourselves in building sustainable partnerships with our Clients and Reinsurers.

At Aon, we empower you and your business to better understand, manage and transfer risk through innovative solutions and personalised access to all forms of global Aon Reinsurance capital in treaty, facultative and alternative capital markets.

We understand that you need to successfully navigate your insurance business through challenging scenarios. We believe that it is crucial to identify changes to risk transfer and risk financing markets in advance of key renewals, so you can better anticipate the impact to your Aon Reinsurance placement. Our unique position and impartial perspective ensure that you receive the best advice to enable you to select the most optimal solution for your business.

Our Aon Reinsurance teams provide Facultative, Treaty and Analytical support, with many years’ experience in the Aon Reinsurance market.

Facultative Aon Reinsurance

Aon provides alternative coverage options to assist with business growth without exposing your underwriting results to excessive volatility from individual policies. Our Facultative team specialises in complex corporate and industrial Facultative placements including occupations such as mining, power generation, infrastructure development and more.

Treaty Aon Reinsurance

Treaty Aon Reinsurance addresses your underwriting and capital objectives on a portfolio level, allowing you to manage the combination of premium growth, return on capital and rating agency interests more effectively. Aon is strategically positioned to provide you with flexible treaty programs, structured and priced in ways that reflect your unique objectives and underwriting profile.

Analytics

Aon Reinsurance Analytics is a key differentiator in our service offering. We believe it is the area where we can provide a significant level of value in advising on Reinsurance optimisation and capital management. Our Analytics team works to quantify the economic costs and benefits of any risk transfer solution considered. Our offering combines data-driven analytics methodology with informed, relevant expertise and sophisticated proprietary tools, to deliver customised solutions to you.

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Risk & Innovation

Five Risk Trends Affecting SMMEs

The world certainly looks very different a year later, and nowhere is it more apparent than in the Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMME) space. The sector has faced more than its fair share of obstacles during the COVID-19 pandemic amidst a contracting economy and lockdown measures that reduced income streams to a trickle.

Flooding on the Cards

With above normal rainfall[1] predicted for South Africa until April, flooding could be a reality for many South Africans in 2021. In Aon’s Weather, Climate and Catastrophe 2020 Report, flooding was identified as the second largest peril across the globe, following tropical cyclones, with a devastating cumulative economic loss of $1,191bn (R17,674bn). What is even more concerning is the fact that only 17% of losses were insured.