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MS Re reported a net income of $341m for the first nine months of 2025, an increase driven by premium growth and benign loss experience, according to Reinsurance News.
The reinsurer benefited from continued portfolio expansion, improved underwriting performance, and stronger insurance service profit, alongside an improved combined ratio, reflecting disciplined risk selection, and favourable market conditions.
Commenting on the results, MS Re said performance was supported by “continued business expansion across a well‑managed and diversified portfolio,” coupled with benign loss activity in the second and third quarters.
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MS Re reported a net income of $341m for the first nine months of 2025, an increase driven by premium growth and benign loss experience, according to Reinsurance News.
The reinsurer benefited from continued portfolio expansion, improved underwriting performance, and stronger insurance service profit, alongside an improved combined ratio, reflecting disciplined risk selection, and favourable market conditions.
Commenting on the results, MS Re said performance was supported by “continued business expansion across a well‑managed and diversified portfolio,” coupled with benign loss activity in the second and third quarters.
In an opinion piece for Insurance Day, Max Richter, EMEA chief executive and global growth leader at mea Platform, argues that insurers must stop treating artificial intelligence as a tool that simply supports existing operating models and instead reposition it as the foundation of a new one.
Richter outlines how agentic AI can redesign end‑to‑end insurance workflows, reducing fragmentation, accelerating turnaround times and shifting human effort toward judgement, negotiation and relationship‑driven tasks, rather than manual processing.
“The biggest mindset shift for insurance leaders is to stop treating AI as a tool that assists the existing operating model,” Richter writes, arguing that outcome‑based KPIs are essential for the AI age.
AM Best has upgraded the financial strength rating of IQUW Re Bermuda to A (Excellent), with a positive outlook, reflecting improved operating performance and strengthened capital following its acquisition by Starr.
The ratings agency also lifted the reinsurer’s long‑term issuer credit rating to A+, citing underwriting discipline, financial flexibility and integration into Starr’s global platform.
Commenting on the upgrade, Jeff Greenberg, Starr’s chairman and co-chief executive said: “It demonstrates the depth of our balance sheet, our global reach and the value of experienced teams delivering clarity and consistency in the market.”