Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form Type: 424B4
Source: 0001628280-25-023859
Chunk: 385

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form: 424B4
Chunk 385
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#### Passive Foreign Investment Companies
In general, a non-U.S. corporation will be a PFIC during a given year if (i) 75% or more of its gross income constitutes “passive income” (the “75% test”) or (ii) 50% or more of its assets produce (or are held for the production of) passive income (the “50% test”). For these purposes, passive income generally includes interest, dividends, annuities and other investment income. However, the PFIC provisions contain a look-through rule under which a non-U.S. corporation that directly or indirectly owns at least 25% of the value of the stock of another corporation generally is treated, for purposes of determining whether it is a PFIC, as if it received directly its proportionate share of the income, and held its proportionate share of the assets, of the other corporation (the “look-through rule”). As a result, it is expected that the PFIC status of Aspen Holdings should generally depend on the application of the look-through rule to its subsidiaries and whether the income and assets of its subsidiaries will be characterized as passive or active for this purpose. In addition, pursuant to an insurance exception, (a) passive income does not include income that a QIC derives in the active conduct of an insurance business or income of a QDIC, and (b) passive assets do not include assets of a QIC available to satisfy liabilities of the QIC related to its insurance business, if the QIC is engaged in the active conduct of an insurance business, or assets of a QDIC.

Generally, a non-U.S. corporation will be a QIC for a taxable year if it would be taxable as an insurance company if it were a U.S. corporation and its applicable insurance liabilities constitute more than 25% of its total assets for a taxable year. Further, under the 2021 Proposed Regulations, a QIC is in the “active conduct” of an insurance business only if it satisfies either a “factual requirements test” or an “active conduct percentage test.” The factual requirements test requires that the officers and employees of the QIC carry out substantial managerial and

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operational activities on a regular and continuous basis with respect to its core functions (generally its underwriting activities, investment activities, contract and claims management activities and sales activities) and that they perform virtually all of the active decision-making functions relevant to underwriting functions. The active conduct percentage test generally requires