Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001267395-25-000019
Chunk: 106

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 106
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 the indirect supervisory approach elements currently exercised via the designated insurer; (iii) enhancing supervisory powers and (iv) introducing provisions to allow for the designation and registration of insurance holding companies. Feedback on the Group Supervision Consultation Paper received by the BMA will be considered before finalizing any recommendations for amendments to the Group Supervision Regime. Should the proposals come into force (i) it is anticipated that Aspen Bermuda will no longer be directly supervised by the BMA and the Company will become directly supervised by the BMA as the 'designated insurance holding company' of the Aspen Group and (ii) there will be no grandfathering of the existing structures, and a one-year transition will be afforded to allow affected groups and the BMA to prepare implementing the enhancements.

Annual and Quarterly Filings. On an annual basis, the Aspen Group is required to submit to the BMA: (i) a group statutory financial return; (ii) audited group financial statements including notes to the financial statements, in accordance with GAAP standards (“ Group Financial Statements”); and (iii) a group capital and solvency return, which includes the Group BSCR, a risk-based capital adequacy model, and associated schedules, including, amongst others, a Group Solvency Self-Assessment (“ GSSA”), a Financial Condition Report (the “ FCR”) and an opinion of a BMA approved Group Actuary on the economic balance sheet technical provisions. The GSSA is a self-assessment of our risk and solvency requirements that allows the BMA to obtain our view of the capital resources required to achieve our business objectives and to assess our governance, risk management and controls surrounding this process. The Group Financial Statements are published by the BMA on its website and the FCR is published on our public website. In addition, the Aspen Group files quarterly group financial returns with the BMA.

Group Minimum Solvency Margin and Group Enhanced Capital Requirements. Aspen Holdings must ensure that the Aspen Group’s statutory assets exceed the amount of its statutory liabilities by the aggregate minimum margin of solvency of each qualifying member of the insurance group. A member is a qualifying member if it is subject to solvency requirements in the jurisdiction in which it is registered.

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In addition, every insurance group must maintain available statutory capital and surplus in an amount equal to or exceeding its ECR. The ECR is determined either by reference to the BSCR model or an approved internal capital model. The Aspen Group currently relies on the B