SiriusPoint boosts life reinsurance expertise
Bermuda-headquartered SiriusPoint has made a series of appointments to grow its life reinsurance business. The team is to be led by head of life reinsurance, Florian Boecker, who joined SiriusPoint from PartnerRe in 2019.
Lourens Fourie joins as senior client manager, Saskya Hafner-Cordova as client manager, Chris Reynolds as head of life pricing, Christina Cosma as pricing actuary, and Stéphane Gaillard as underwriting consultant. The team, which is based at the company’s Zurich office.
Boecker said SiriusPoint is seeing growing demand for “highly effective and flexible risk solutions” for short-term life reinsurance for its life, disability and critical illness business.
“This is a large, though historically niche market which is underserved and expected to grow significantly over the coming years,” he said. “The Covid-19 pandemic, for example, has impacted a number of large group life markets, and our clients and brokers are seeing significant scaling back of reinsurance capacity, increased rates and restrictions to covers. In this situation, we are in a position to offer fresh capacity and an innovative approach when our partners need it most.”
Hafner-Cordova joins from Gen Re, where she was pricing actuary and account executive, working with clients across Latin America. Reynolds joins from PartnerRe’s life reinsurance business, where he was chief pricing actuary.
Reynolds joins from PartnerRe’s life reinsurance business, where he chief pricing actuary.
Cosma, previously worked for BIMA, Pacific Life Re and Vitality. Fourie has worked in client-facing roles working at insurers, reinsurers, and brokers across multiple markets in the life industry. Lourens worked in PartnerRe’s life reinsurance as head of key accounts for Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Gaillard has experience in client management in the life, accident & health sector in various European countries. He has previously worked in business development roles for Arch Re, Swiss Re and Munich Re.
Reynolds is chair of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ (IFoA’s) health and care board and a member of the CMI Assurances Committee, and Lourens is part of the IFoA’s Mental Health working party.
