Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: F-1/A
Source: 0001628280-25-020463
Chunk: 367

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: F-1/A
Chunk 367
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 maintain a risk management framework and conduct an internal risk and

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solvency assessment of the insurer’s material risks in normal and stressed environments. Many state insurance holding company laws, including those of Iowa, Texas and North Dakota, have also been amended to require insurers to file an annual confidential enterprise risk report with their lead state regulator, disclosing material risks within the entire holding company system that could pose an enterprise risk to the insurer.

#### Change of Control
The insurance holding company laws and regulations generally provide that no person, corporation, or other entity may acquire control of a domestic insurance company, or a controlling interest in any parent company of such insurance company, without the prior approval of the insurance company’s domestic state regulator. A person who acquires, directly or indirectly, 10% or more of the voting interests of an insurance company is presumptively considered to have acquired control of the insurer, although such presumption may be rebutted by a showing that control does not in fact exist. The domestic state regulator may also find that control exists in circumstances in which a person owns or controls less than 10% of voting interest. To obtain approval of any change in control, the proposed acquirer must file an application disclosing, among other information, its background, financial condition, the financial condition of its affiliates, the source and amount of funds by which it will affect the acquisition, the criteria used in determining the nature and amount of consideration to be paid for the acquisition, proposed changes in the management and operations of the insurance company and other related matters.

#### State Dividend Limitations
Under Texas and North Dakota law, respectively, AAIC and Aspen Specialty may only pay dividends out of earned surplus as distinguished from contributed surplus. In addition, under Texas and North Dakota law, an insurance company’s policyholder surplus after payment of a dividend must be reasonable in relation to its outstanding liabilities and adequate for its financial needs.

In addition, Texas and North Dakota law generally limit the ability of AAIC or Aspen Specialty to pay dividends above a specified level, without prior regulatory approval. Dividends or distributions in excess of specified level are deemed “extraordinary” and are subject to prior notice to and approval of the applicable state insurance regulator. The maximum amount of ordinary dividend that can be paid without prior regulatory approval is the greater of 10% of a company’s surplus as of December 31 of the preceding year, or the amount of net income from the preceding fiscal year.

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