Underlying reinsurance RoE only 3.4%: Willis Re

Capital oversupply and market pressures have begun to diminish
return on equity (RoE), Willis Re has warned.
In its Reinsurance Market Report, released today (22 April), the
broker noted that aggregate reported RoE remained seemingly
resilient at 10.2 percent - down 1.3 percentage points on last
year's figure.
However, a more typical catastrophe loss year and the exclusion
of prior-year reserve releases would reduce aggregate RoE to around
3.4 percent.
The report is based on an index made up of.