Tremor’s supply curves and market clearing technology give reinsurers more control over their final lines. As a reinsurer, as soon as a renewal lands on your desk you typically know what you want. Unfortunately, the road to your final line is long. The cedent’s firm order terms – if they are even set when the submission first arrives – will be extrapolated from models and selected reinsurer input. Invariably, these extrapolated prices will be imperfect, and finalizing the placement will require sign-downs or other adjustments.

Insurance companies worry about finding reinsurance that works for their businesses. In today’s hard market this concern is palpable. Without clear information about what the market will bear, we see many cedents tightening their reinsurance buys, limiting the options that they consider, and driving hard on the cost of what they do buy. Through all this, opportunity is lost. Variations that might be profitable for cedent and reinsurer alike are never explored.

Tremor Technologies, Inc. Founder & CEO Sean Bourgeois participated in a fireside chat today during the Jefferies Insurtech Conference to discuss alternative re/insurance distribution with insurtech pioneer Jennifer Fitzgerald, co-founder & CEO of Policygenius and Yaron Kinar of Jefferies investment bank. The conversation covered a wide range of topics including a review of the core business models of each company, which product lines each company distributes and each company’s view on the value in the insurance ecosystem being weighted to distribution.