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23 – Date – 10.08.2026 – Issue 17
Gazette Watch — Issue 17 is now available
The latest edition of Gazette Watch, dated 10 August 2026, is now published.
This edition brings together the latest developments across the legacy insurance and run-off market — including the growing industry response to the PRA’s funded reinsurance consultation, which has now closed following significant industry pushback.
As always, we look beyond the headline to the developments shaping the sector.
Read Issue 17 via the Gazette Watch Newsstand:
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Featured story — PRA Funded Reinsurance Consultation Closes Amid Industry Pushback:
https://lnkd.in/etuCqDby
24 – Date – 24 August 2026 – Issue 18
A London market mega-merger leads this fortnight’s Gazette Watch (Issue 18)
Marco Capital is acquiring Pro Global — combining with PoloWorks to create one of the industry’s largest specialist insurance services groups: 15 offices, 1,400 staff, spanning Lloyd’s and international markets.
Elsewhere in Issue 18: QBE’s second RiverStone LPT, Pacific Life Re’s third Japan flow deal, Willis Re’s move for BMS Re US, and Talcott’s $1bn West Grove Re sidecar with Goldman Sachs.
We look beyond the headline to what’s actually reshaping the sector.
Read Issue 18 via the Gazette Watch Newsstand:
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Featured story — Marco Capital to Acquire Pro Global:
https://lnkd.in/e2RTiP_R
25 – Date – Monte Carlo Special
📰 Gazette Watch — Monte Carlo Special Edition is live
As the legacy and run-off market gathers in Monte Carlo for the Rendez-Vous de Septembre, Gazette Watch marks the moment with a one-off Special Edition — live now at jdcconsultants.com.
One front page, split in two: a Monte Carlo look-ahead on the left, a six-month/eighteen-issue retrospective on the right — then and now, side by side.
👉 Read it here: https://lnkd.in/epQ6fXHm
Next full issue: Monday 14 September.
26 – Date – 14 September 2026 – Issue 19
A £200 million shield for an unnamed Lloyd’s syndicate leads this fortnight’s Gazette Watch (Issue 19).
Compre has struck a £200m adverse development cover locking in four years of accumulated risk — 2023 and all years prior — across a multi-line book of property, casualty and assumed reinsurance business. The syndicate keeps its claims team, assets and investment income. What it gains is certainty.
Elsewhere in Issue 19: DARAG deepens its Danish foothold with the Domus Forsikring transfer, Lloyd’s sits on an untapped-liabilities goldmine, casualty ILS comes of age at Monte Carlo, and Pacific Life Re plants its flag in Hong Kong.
We look beyond the headline to what’s actually reshaping the sector.
Read Issue 19 via the Gazette Watch Newsstand:
Featured story — Compre Strikes £200m Shield for Mystery Syndicate:
27 – Date – 14.09.2026 – STOP PRESS
STOP PRESS: The Marco Capital/Pro Global merger has grown since we first reported it — the combined platform now spans 15 offices and 1,400 staff, expanding specialist insurance services across Lloyd’s and international markets.
Full story in Issue 19: https://lnkd.in/eJVw4ceT
28 – Date – 28.09.2026 – Issue 20
Gazette Watch — Issue 20 is out
A week of endings in the legacy market.
📰 Marco mops up at Syndicate 1110. Marco’s RITC Syndicate 1254 replaces Coaction as reinsurer to R&Q’s run-off syndicate, putting another piece of the R&Q estate into specialist hands.
⏳ James River’s cushion runs dry. The last $7.5m of its Enstar-backed adverse development cover is gone.
⚖️ DARAG wins court nod for Part VII transfers of the Soteria and DLUK books to DIUK.
🔍 Ress Life in dispute over its legacy life sale, with a $129m earn-out at stake.
🎲 Aon’s Cortina divides the room at Monte Carlo.
🛑 STOP PRESS: Hartford and Berkshire’s National Indemnity commute their 2016 A&E cover for $1.12bn, ending a confidential arbitration.
Read the full edition 👉 https://lnkd.in/eq4axTQN
29 – Date – 01.10.2026 – Web Site Update
THE PRESSES HAVE BEEN OILED.
A short note from the Gazette Watch desk.
Over the past fortnight we’ve given the whole Gazette Watch archive a careful restoration, from our first digital edition (Issue 15, July) through to this week’s Issue 20 and the Monte Carlo Special:
▪ Every broadsheet now shows in full on any screen, with no cropped mastheads and no clipped columns
▪ Every story, photograph and News in Brief panel links exactly where it should
▪ A new navigation bar under each page takes you back to that issue’s own newsstand, the archive or the JDC home page
▪ Better on the move: the full front page now fits your phone, and the site menu and archive table work properly on mobile
If you haven’t looked at the back issues for a while, now is a good time to browse. Six months of legacy and run-off deals, from Carrick’s Community Re transfer to Marco Capital at Syndicate 1110.
Start at the newsstand 👉 https://lnkd.in/edTaYbAU
27 – Date – 12.10.2026 – Issue 21
Gazette Watch — Issue 21 is out
A fortnight of new builds in the legacy market.
🏰 A new House of Windsor. Wilton Re and Sun Life back Windsor Life Re, a $900m reinsurer that will take on a $1.7bn in-force block and grow towards $10bn of assets.
📚 Prismic takes another $5bn from Prudential. A Japanese whole life block lifts the pair’s deals past $22bn.
🚪 Fortitude builds a front door. Fortitude Re buys Dayforward’s platform to form Fortitude Life, and leaves the legacy behind.
⚙️ Brokers: the engine room. IRLA chair Kevin Gill on why broker legacy teams now bring deals to market, and why legacy enters client conversations earlier.
📕 Avatar closes its book. A Lloyd’s property MGA goes into run-off just over a year after launch.
🔴 STOP PRESS: Pacific Life Re makes its US longevity debut with a $3bn deal with American National.
We’ve also tightened up the navigation. Every Gazette Watch page now has its own bar, so moving between the newsstand, past editions and the full digital stories is quicker and cleaner.
Read the full edition 👉 https://lnkd.in/e9xp6SNy