Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form Type: 424B4
Source: 0001628280-25-023859
Chunk: 77

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form: 424B4
Chunk 77
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ate. As a result of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatement due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.

We are required, pursuant to the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), to furnish a report from management on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting in connection with the filing of our annual report on Form 20-F that is filed with the SEC. We also expect, assuming that we will become an accelerated filer, that our auditors will be required to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting beginning with our first annual report on Form 20-F for the first fiscal year following this offering. We are currently required to report, among other things, control deficiencies that constitute a “material weakness” or changes in internal controls that, or that are reasonably likely to, materially affect internal controls over financial reporting. A “material weakness” is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim consolidated financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

Our internal control system is designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

In our annual reports on Form 20-F for the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years, we identified and disclosed a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting. The material weakness resulted from insufficient resources with appropriate level of knowledge within our outwards reinsurance operations and accounting team to effectively design and execute our process level procedures and controls around reinsurance premiums payable and reinsurance receivables, and related disclosures.

Continued significant progress has been made over the course of 2023 and 2024 to remediate the identified material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting described above. To remediate the material weakness, we implemented remedial measures that included, but were not limited to:

• strengthened the outwards reinsurance teams, through a combination of hiring additional accounting and operational resources, both permanent and temporary, together with engaging external consulting and other business process third-party organizations, to ensure that we have a sufficient number of personnel with the skills and experience commensurate with the size and complexity of the organization who can effectively design and execute our process level procedures and controls around reinsurance premiums