Reinsurance facility

An alternative mechanism to service those insureds that cannot obtain insurance in the voluntary market. Premiums and losses for the business that is ceded to the facility are pooled and all insurers share according to their proportion of the voluntary market.

Reinsurance pool

a group of reinsurers who agree to share certain types of business in specified proportions (such a pool is sometimes operated by way of cession and retrocession).
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A multi-reinsurer agreement under which each reinsurer in the group or pool assumes a specified portion of each risk ceded to the pool. Contrast with Reinsurance wheel.

Reinsurance pools

An organisation of reinsurers through which particular types of risk (e.g. certain categories of sub-standard lives seeking life cover) are underwritten with premium losses and expenses shared in agreed proportions. Pooling creates the advantage of averaging over a large number of similar risks.

Reinsurance to close

An agreement under which Lloyd’s underwriting members who are members of a syndicate for a year of account to be closed are reinsured by underwriting members who comprise that or another syndicate for a later year of account against all liabilities arising out of insurance business underwritten by the reinsured syndicate. The practice will end when Lloyd’s moves to GAAP accounting.