Building the Future of African Reinsurance
Kava International Risk Services is a specialist MGA focused on originating, structuring, underwriting and managing African insurance portfolios on behalf of capacity providers.
Our primary distribution partners are reinsurance brokers. Our capacity proposition is focused on African reinsurers and selected capacity providers.
Our purpose
To make African reinsurance more connected, efficient and underwriting-led.
Market constraints
Africa's insurance markets generate significant opportunities across established and emerging classes of risk. Yet opportunities can be constrained by:
Fragmented markets
Kava responseA single specialist channel connecting brokers directly to structured African reinsurance capacity.
Limited specialist underwriting capacity
Kava responseDedicated underwriting expertise across selected classes, engaged under agreed authority.
Inconsistent risk information
Kava responseStructured underwriting assessment applied consistently to every opportunity.
Inefficient placement processes
Kava responseA defined six-step process from review through to bind.
Limited access to structured facilities
Kava responsePortfolio, treaty, facultative and specialty structures built around the opportunity.
Insufficient portfolio-level underwriting
Kava responseOngoing monitoring of premium, exposure, claims and portfolio performance.
Kava addresses this gap. We work with brokers to transform market opportunities into structured underwriting propositions that African reinsurers can evaluate, support and scale.
Kava International Risk Services
Registered office
The Junction Business Hub,
Arsenal Branch Road,
Calebasses 20201, Mauritius
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