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The conundrum of success: Navigating the softening market
The reinsurance market enters 2026 from a position of unusual strength. Following a sustained period of disciplined underwriting, improved contract structures and benign catastrophe activity, reinsurers have delivered decade‑high profits across 2023-2025. Yet this success has created a new strategic challenge: how to prepare for a softening cycle without undermining hard‑won performance.
Our 2026 Reinsurance CEO Agenda explores the state of the market using proprietary data from the Oxbow Partners Reinsurance Tool and examines what the next phase means for leadership teams.
What’s inside the report?
- Reconfirming corporate strategy in light of a different market environment
- Building a nuanced ten-year strategy to drive through the next cycle
- Preparing executive decision-making for the soft market
- Transforming the organisation to support the next phase of growth
- AI adoption: Assuming a deliberate strategic posture
