Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: F-1/A
Source: 0001628280-25-020463
Chunk: 144

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: F-1/A
Chunk 144
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 with the most appropriate source of capital, and to drive efficiencies and optimal outcomes for our customers. Our ability to offer our broker and client partners holistic and customized solutions across our entire platform of Insurance and Reinsurance, and third-party capital offerings through ACM, provides us the opportunity to execute larger, more complex deals which frequently result in more attractive terms and conditions.

During 2024, the (re)insurance market experienced rate increases across a number of classes of business. Underlying underwriting conditions, including increased natural catastrophe activity and sustained higher inflation, alongside tighter (re)insurance capacity, means we expect pricing to remain generally favorable. We believe Aspen is well placed to take advantage of the current market environment. We have proactively managed our business to reduce volatility and our underwriting portfolio is well diversified by class and geography, supported by a strong capital position and a clear focus on cost management and operational efficiency. We remain focused on profitable growth, optimizing our underwriting returns and prudentially managing catastrophe risk.

Our Markets, General Economic Conditions and Opportunities

We operate within the global (re)insurance market, where we have significant opportunities to capture attractive risk-adjusted returns across the cycle through our multi-platform capabilities. The global macroeconomic and social environment continues to drive demand for increasingly complex (re)insurance solutions delivered as a joined-up offering, which is where we thrive. In recent years, rate increases have been driven by the increased frequency and severity of natural catastrophe events globally (impacted by changing weather patterns), inflation (both social and economic), increased geopolitical tensions and other risks that have grown and emerged, increasing the demand for specialty solutions. As a result, the global commercial insurance industry has seen 33 consecutive quarters of price increases according to WTW’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey Q3 2024.

We expect these hard market conditions will persist, as they are driven by uncorrelated and continuing macroeconomic and social dynamics. This will provide opportunities for us to deliver profitable growth as we target new business and clients at favorable risk-adjusted rates and with improved terms and conditions, while maintaining disciplined risk selection. Furthermore, our chosen lines of business within Insurance have high barriers to entry requiring the bespoke tailoring of products and the need for specialized and experienced underwriters with tenured distribution relationships.

The higher interest rate environment provides additional tailwinds for our business. Higher returns from our fixed income portfolio complement our underwriting income with attractive investment income and contribute to our ability to generate strong risk-adjusted returns for our shareholders. With a low-risk fixed income portfolio