{"id":266536,"date":"2025-08-19T12:52:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/swiss-re-and-berkshire-hathaway-become-the-worlds-largest-reinsurance-companies-behind-munich-re-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:07:02","slug":"swiss-re-and-berkshire-hathaway-become-the-worlds-largest-reinsurance-companies-behind-munich-re-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/swiss-re-and-berkshire-hathaway-become-the-worlds-largest-reinsurance-companies-behind-munich-re-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Re and Berkshire Hathaway become the world&#8217;s largest reinsurance companies, Behind Munich Re"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Swiss relay has overtaken Munich Ri to become the world&#8217;s largest reinsurance company. Swiss Re has topped the list of reinsurance companies in the world reporting under IFRS-17. <\/p>\n<p>Am Best&#8217;s 2024 data shows this. According to the data, Berkshire Hathaway topped the list of companies reporting under non-IFRS-17. <\/p>\n<p>AM Best has now ranked the top 50 global reinsurance companies in the two lists. Companies reporting under IFRS-17 have been ranked 1-16 in terms of total reinsurance income. While companies reporting under non-IFRS-17 are ranked 1-34 in terms of total reinsurance premium. <\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Swiss Ri topped the list of non-IFRS-17 companies. However, in 2024, The Swiss Relay changed its reporting. <\/p>\n<p>At the end of 2024, Swiss re topped the list of IFRS-17 companies with revenues of $36.2 billion. Munich re is the only company after Swiss Re with revenues of more than $30 billion in 2024. Munich Ri has an income of $32.6 billion. However, Munich has dropped one place on the re-list. <\/p>\n<p>Hannover Ri is third on the LIST of IFRS-17 companies with $27.5 billion in 2024. It was followed by SCOR with revenues of $16.8 billion and China Ri with revenues of $5.9 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Berkshire Hathaway topped the list of non-IFRS-17 companies. It has a GWP of $26.9 billion in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Specialist Lloyd&#8217;s insurance and reinsurance market is second on the list of non-IFRS-17 companies. Its GWP is $23.5 billion. It was followed by Reinsurance Group of America ($15.6 billion) and Everest Group ($12.9 billion). <\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s wildfires in January had a major impact on first-quarter results. Many reinsurance companies investing in California have reported their worst quarterly underwriting experience in recent years. The impact of fires has reduced a large part of the disaster burden budgeted for the year. <\/p>\n<p>As 2025 progresses, the market has seen rates soften in non-loss affected accounts. &#8220;However, rates in loss-affected accounts have improved or remained unchanged in general,&#8221; said Chris Pennings, financial analyst at AM Best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Swiss relay has overtaken Munich Ri to become the world&#8217;s largest reinsurance company. Swiss Re has topped the list of reinsurance companies in the world reporting under IFRS-17. Am Best&#8217;s 2024 data shows this. According to the data, Berkshire Hathaway topped the list of companies reporting under non-IFRS-17. AM Best has now ranked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":266533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45031,45044,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner-news-en","category-international-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/266533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}