Every one of our clients is important to us and we recognise the responsibility that comes with each appointment. The importance of you selecting the right partner for your business is not lost on us. We have intentionally built BMS Re differently to ensure we put our clients first and deliver the very best solutions and service.
London & Bermuda
We listen. We execute. We deliver.
BMS provides holistic support to our clients, which includes the design and placement of reinsurance and retrocessional programs across most Property, Casualty and Specialty classes of business.
We recognise that with the continuing changes in portfolio exposures and regulatory & capital requirements, our clients need to dynamically optimize their models to achieve their targeted returns.
Supported by our Capital Solutions, Rating, Actuarial and Analytics experts, our solutions driven approach guarantees our clients needs come first.
Product types across Property, Casualty and Specialty Reinsurance include:
- Proportional / Non-Proportional Treaty
- Facultative Reinsurance
- Structured / Financial products
- Industry Loss Warranties
- Consortia
- Binding Authorities / Programmes
- Retrocession
Working with our team
As a team, we set ourselves these minimum client service standards:
Starts each year with a blank slate, ‘Renew as New’ – because what was suitable last year may not be in this one. Markets, risks and buyers all change — your reinsurance purchase needs to keep pace. We do not disregard lessons learned nor established market relationships, we take your goals and overlay the market conditions to create a strategy that ensures your reinsurance protection is still aligned with your goals.
Know your client – be curious. We take time to understand our clients, their concerns, underlying portfolio and go forward strategy. This enables us to structure a programme and partner with market that can adapt with your growth.
You are unique. Each client is unique and should be treated as such. No two portfolios are the same. It is imperative that reinsurers consider each of our clients on their own merits and it is BMS duty to articulate your differentiators to the market.
Clear communication - we tell you what, where and why. In times of uncertainty, it is more important than ever to ensure that you have access to all available intelligence. You must have absolute confidence in your broking partner’s approach - and that requires transparent communication for you to make informed decisions, be that at renewal or making changes to your own appetite throughout the year.
Cross class peer review. We peer review the proposed structures and strategy across our specialisms - challenging each other to ensure there isn’t a better way. We also offer a chance for our clients to debrief with other BMS senior individuals to gauge the team’s performance - we are always looking to improve.
Claims is not an afterthought situated in the same building as the broking team with each client having designated account handlers. Claims and accounts attend our weekly team meeting – communication across our services and broking teams is paramount. We also discuss any potential changes in market and the impact that may have on claims settlement based on our team’s previous experience.
Contract building is not just part of the workflow. Our contract wording expertise sit within our broking team. Our aim is to always push for concurrent terms. We all recognise that this is not always achievable and experience is needed to navigate these contact negotiations. Our experts have over 75 years’ experience and have worked across a number of sectors.
Better together. There are no siloes at BMS – we work as one across territories and specialisms. There are no internal politics, no one ‘owns’ a client. We will always deliver a better result working as a team - fact.
