Everest’s Klinger: Growth and stability for every market cycle

Combining local expertise with global capabilities is key to navigating cycles in international markets, says Everest’s Artur Klinger.

As head of international reinsurance, how are you translating Everest’s core strengths into strategy across Europe, Asia Pacific, MEA and Latin America?
Everest anchors our strategy on relationships and helping clients determine appropriate cost allocations as it relates to risk transfer. We view and approach every client relationship based on serving needs over the long term; it is how we have built our organisation. We structure our business so both clients and our portfolio can withstand shifting market cycles. That starts with empowering local underwriters with clear authority, providing rapid access to decision-makers and encouraging the ability to offer all classes of products in each region.

Everest holds one global standard for data and contract quality, but we tailor our solutions to local regulations, market practices and the unique perils and lines of business in each geography. This combination of global discipline and local agility ensures we can deliver durable, dependable capacity and maintain resilience across regions.

Where are you seeing the most momentum, and how is your team driving targeted growth?
We’re building out regional accident and health and financial products expertise in emerging markets such as Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, and Latin America. Across our global specialty lines, such as cyber, marine and engineering, demand for protection products in these regions continues to expand. In marine and energy, we leverage technical expertise and disciplined risk selection to identify profitable opportunities. Across all regions, we prioritise clients who value transparent data and long-term partnership goals over short-term price gains.

How have you structured your international division to empower local underwriters?
Authority sits close to the client. Our underwriters work within clear guardrails, with access to real-time portfolio views and direct escalation paths to senior leadership. This ensures fast, informed decision-making. Additionally, our established centres of excellence—in financial risks, cyber, engineering and parametric solutions—plug directly into local teams. This means clients benefit from both speed and technical depth, with expertise tailored to the complexity of their risk. It’s autonomy with accountability, supported by the full global Everest platform.

Innovation is key to future-proofing partnerships. How is your team leveraging Everest’s global expertise to address region-specific challenges?
We deploy the full Everest toolkit to match each market’s reality. Parametric structures for wind, quake and flood, especially for renewable energy, bring speed and clarity to post-event liquidity. In financial risks, we’re focusing on tailored structures to manage capital and support global trade. Where it improves client outcomes, we can complement traditional capacity with customised strategic reinsurance solutions that help to achieve business targets in the current uncertain environment. The common thread is durable, smart structures tailored to each market.

With reinsurance capital at record highs and competition intensifying, how do you ensure Everest stands out in international markets?
We compete on more than price. Our differentiator is the combination of disciplined underwriting, contract quality and consistent service. Clients know we will walk away from poorly structured deals, but when we commit, we deliver sustainable capacity and decisive action. Our ability to pivot between traditional reinsurance and alternative or strategic reinsurance solutions is particularly valuable in challenging markets facing climate volatility, regulatory change or emerging risk profiles. In competitive conditions, clarity, reliability and innovation are what sustain relationships.

What’s the one thing you want clients and brokers to remember about Everest’s international reinsurance approach? Everest is here for the long haul—committed to combining local expertise with global strength to navigate any cycle together and continue delivering capacity, innovation and trust, year after year.

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