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New team member for ForestRe for Latin-American market22.09.2009

Gilberto joined FRe in September 2009, to enhance and support the Underwriting Team. Read More...

ForestRe Discuss Natural Hazard Risks in Commercial Forestry20.05.2009

Phil Cottle, MD and Jenny Yu, Risk Underwriter, FRe, join leading insurance risk experts to share their knowledge about climate change and the perceived increase in natural hazard risks in commercial forestry. Read more...

ForestRe Presents at the Sustainable Bioenergy 200902.04.2009

Presenting at the Sustainable Bioenergy 2009 Conference on the 1st April, Phil Cottle discussed de-risking investment opportunities in forestry. Read more...

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About Us

Founded in 2005, ForestRe is a niche global forestry agency for the insurance and reinsurance for all types of forests and industrial tree crop plantations, and the only significant London market for forestry insurance.

ForestRe engineers the transfer of risk from investors to insurers that is associated with investments into forests; conventional wood fibre production, industrial tree crops and projects delivering ecosystem services such as forest carbon, water quality, and other benefits.

Since January 2008, ForestRe entered into a Line Slip Agreement with leading Syndicates of Lloyd’s of London, for the provision of Insurance and Reinsurance of forests and tree plantations worldwide. The 2010 ForestRe capacity within Lloyd’s is provided by seven Syndicates as listed below collectively they provide more than 100% written line for each individual forestry risk.

SyndicateNo.ShareWeb site
Kiln51040%www.kilngroup.com
AEGIS122522.5%www.aegislink.com
Mathers80712.5%www.kilngroup.com
Argo120010%www.argolimited.com
Ark402010%www.arkunderwriting.com
Omega/Christensen9585%www.omegauw.com
Amlin20015%www.amlin.com

To access these syndicates, we use a broker who for 2010 which is Price Forbes (www.priceforbes.com).

Our team has over 60 years of experience in risk assessment and insurance product design for forestry and agriculture. Our expertise ensures that we model data to the highest standards. This in turn means bespoke products are designed by forestry professionals for practitioners in order to provide competitive rates.

For more information on the procedures for placing forestry risks with Lloyd’s please contact us.