Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: F-1/A
Source: 0001628280-25-020463
Chunk: 71

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: F-1/A
Chunk 71
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 many factors, including our ability to write new business successfully, deploy capital into more profitable business lines, identify acquisition opportunities, manage investments and preserve capital in volatile markets, and establish premium rates and reserves at levels sufficient to cover losses.

We require liquidity to:

• pay claims;

• fund our operating expenses;

• to the extent declared, pay dividends (including the payment of dividends to the holders of our Preference Shares);

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• fund liquidity needs caused by investment losses;

• replace or improve capital in the event of a depletion of our capital as a result of significant reinsurance losses;

• meet rating agency or regulatory capital requirements;

• respond to competitive pressures;

• service our debt; and

• meet capital requirements.

To the extent our funds are insufficient or unavailable to fund future operating requirements or cover claims losses, whether due to regulatory or contractual restrictions (such as to pay additional or callable contributions to the Lloyd’s central fund), underwriting or investment losses or otherwise, we may need to raise additional funds through corporate finance transactions or curtail our growth and reduce our liabilities. Any such financing, if available at all, may be on terms that are not favorable to us. Additionally, in a rising interest rate environment, such financing may result in a higher cost of capital. Our ability to raise such capital successfully would depend upon the facts and circumstances at the time, including our financial position and operating results, market conditions and applicable regulatory filings and legal issues. If we cannot obtain adequate capital on favorable terms, or obtain it at all, our business, financial condition and operating results could be adversely affected. Furthermore, financial markets have experienced extreme volatility and disruption due in part to financial stresses affecting the liquidity of the banking system and the financial markets generally. These circumstances have reduced access to the public and private equity and debt markets at such times.

In addition, we may not achieve the desired regulatory capital treatment for any potential issuance of debt or equity securities due to changing solvency capital eligibility requirements under the Bermuda Insurance (Group Supervision) Rules 2011, as amended from time to time (the “Group Supervision Rules”) to which we are subject. For these instruments to continue to receive the intended regulatory capital treatment, their terms must reflect the criteria contained in the Group Supervision Rules and any amendments thereto. If the BMA applies any changes to the Group Supervision Rules governing eligible capital such that our outstanding Preference Shares or other securities we may issue in the future no longer receive their intended capital treatment under the Group Superv