What we are doing at Aon Benfield is changing the complexion of the worldwide facultative market.

Facultative reinsurance is a highly customised tool which can be used to deal with fundamental issues at all levels from mitigating catastrophe loss spikes to protecting against auto liability accumulations. Accordingly, risk carriers are increasingly treating such cover as a core part of their reinsurance strategies.

As a result, having the ability to deliver a full service capability - from analysis, structuring and placing to claims handling and accounting, or even providing facilities such as electronic platforms to support customer initiatives – is increasingly fundamental to the facultative broker's offering.

So too is the ability to deal with all areas of the market including MGAs, captive associations, regional carriers, retailers, national account carriers and wholesalers and to work in partnership with treaty broking counterparts.

Recognising these trends, Aon Benfield has created the market's leading, dedicated, global, facultative resource.

With a worldwide presence of experts from the property, casualty, financial lines and energy sectors, we operate as one team, regardless of international boundaries, with one profit centre, so empowering every member with equal access to all markets including alternative capital solutions.

Drawing on the company's superior actuarial and analytical skills, including Benfield's market leading dynamic financial analysis and catastrophe modelling products, we use our own resources to both structure and place optimum solutions for customers in all classes of reinsurance.