Hannover Rück SE, known internationally as Hannover Re, is a Germany-based global reinsurance company. It provides risk-transfer solutions to insurance companies and other clients, helping them manage exposures arising from events such as natural catastrophes, major accidents, mortality, and illness.
The company operates through two principal business areas: property and casualty reinsurance, and life and health reinsurance. Its offerings include traditional proportional and non-proportional reinsurance, retrocession, specialty coverage, and alternative risk-transfer solutions, including insurance-linked securities. Life and health services cover areas such as mortality, longevity, morbidity, and structured reinsurance arrangements.
Hannover Re was established in 1966 and is headquartered in Hannover, Germany. Through subsidiaries, offices, and business relationships in major insurance markets, it serves clients across Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, and other international regions. The company is part of the Talanx Group, and Jean-Jacques Henchoz has served as its chief executive officer since 2020.
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