US RE Chairman/CEO Tal Piccione said that the US RE Risk manager enables insurers to identifying cost drivers of reinsurance in a bid to better manage profitability.
The web portal enables insurers to isolate their worst performers, identify areas of over concentration that contribute to extended exposure and analyze portfolios to seek out profitable areas to expand writings.
The product based on US RE’s optimization methodology, US RE Optimizer, maximizes risk-adjusted, total underwriting return on capital while simultaneously trying to minimize the volatility of retained losses.
The tool enables a refined analysis that includes non-catastrophe costs and expenses to minimize the total cost of risk including the risk-adjusted cost of capital in addition to standard catastrophe modeling outputs.