The group whose offices are spread across Southern Africa, specializes in Property & Casualty reinsurance with a forward-looking approach to risk, capital, and client relationships. Our team combines deep industry expertise with data-driven insights to support insurers across the globe helping them manage volatility, protect balance sheets, and grow with confidence. From traditional coverage to emerging risks like cyber, climate, and health, we offer adaptive solutions built on discipline, transparency, and long-term value creation. At Emeritus Re, we don’t just transfer risk, we build resilience.
As a Reinsurer, Emeritus Re assumes a similar risk profile to its clients, with the added advantage of economies of scale, balance sheet strength, technical expertise and experience. Emeritus Re provides competitive pricing, support in risk management and tailors specific solutions that enable clients to grow, thrive and prosper in the insurance space.
Emeritus Re is cognizant of climatic change, technological developments and other extraordinary new and emerging risks that are in the insurance space. The company partners with clients in providing expertise in special risks as required. Our partnership transcends providing reinsurance cover and extends to availing our proficiency in product development, policy wording structures, risk identification, profiling, mitigation, pricing, and assessment throughout the value chain.
Pursuant with our group objectives, we strive to excel in delivering value for our clients through our technical services, skills development, and product development. Our service turnaround times and terms seek to ensure our clients remain competitive in their various spheres as we leverage on the various digital solutions to remain accessible and available on call.
Life and Health services provide reinsurance solutions to diverse client needs and requirements specific to life and health insurance. Being life reinsurance solutions providers, we are just like our clients in the risk assumption business. This shared perspective, together with our vast industry knowledge and expertise, enables us to understand and evaluate the different types of risks and hence propose the perfect reinsurance solutions which are flexible and tailored to meet our clients’ peculiar needs. We provide treaty and facultative reinsurance solutions in support of the underlying products that our clients underwrite in the broad categories of Individual Life, Group and Health Businesses.
Our product offerings include proportional and non-proportional reinsurance solutions designed to achieve cost efficiency, capital efficiency and to enable our clients to maintain their required solvency.
Pursuant to the group objectives we seek to provide excellent value for our clients through technical services such as underwriting claims assessment, skills development and product development. Our service turnaround times for underwriting and claims are structured to ensure that our clients remain competitive in their various spheres.
Emeritus Re is involved in risk management training, pre-loss surveys and post loss surveys. Training and pre-loss surveys are aimed at ensuring there is reduction in economic waste and the post loss surveys are critical in that recommendations are made (and implemented) which will either prevent recurrence of losses or that the likely impact is reduced both in size and scale.
Based on our heritage of providing innovative risk solutions to protect growth and prosperity, at Emeritus Reinsurance, we believe in optimising potential and growing industry professionals. We are heavily involved in investing in training and rewarding graduates, whilst also providing expertise for people interested in the insurance industry.
This we achieve through various industry and academic partnerships which include sponsorship of the Insurance Institute of Zimbabwe (IIZ) training programmes such as the Summer School which aims at developing key industry skills, partnering with various universities through sponsorship of academic excellence awards and direct industry training through various technical workshops.
As a complimentary service and to further the main business of Reinsurance, Reassurance and Risk Management, Emeritus Re assists its clients with training programs . The trainings are in the various classes of insurance, reinsurance and reassurance products. However, tailor made training programs are available for Emeritus Reinsurance clients. Emeritus Reinsurance also hosts annual market workshops. The workshops rotate between the countries within which Emeritus Reinsurance operates.
Training is conducted by the skilled and experienced Emeritus Reinsurance staff. Emeritus Reinsurance has also seconded their staff to train at seminars and conferences like OESAI (Organisation of East & South African Insurers & reinsurers), SADC (Southern African Development Community) Insurance Forum amongst others.
