Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: F-1/A
Source: 0001628280-25-020463
Chunk: 124

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: F-1/A
Chunk 124
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 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 that (i) the total costs incurred by the QIC with respect to its officers and employees for services rendered with respect to its core functions (other than investment activities) equal or exceed 50% of the total costs incurred by the QIC with respect to its officers and employees and any other person or entities for services rendered with respect to its core functions (other than investment activities) and (ii) to the extent the QIC outsources any part of its core functions to unrelated entities, officers and employees of the QIC with experience and relevant expertise must select and supervise the person that performs the outsourced functions, establish objectives for performance of the outsourced functions and prescribe rigorous guidelines relating to the outsourced functions which are routinely evaluated and updated. Under certain exceptions, however, a QIC that has no or only a nominal number of employees or that is a vehicle that has the effect of securitizing or collateralizing insurance risks underwritten by other insurance or reinsurance companies or is an insurance linked securities fund that invests in securitization vehicles generally is deemed not engaged in the active conduct of an insurance business. The officers and employees of certain related entities generally may be taken into account for these purposes, provided that the QIC exercises regular oversight and supervision over the services performed by the related entity’s officers and employees. The 2021 Proposed Regulations will not be effective unless and until adopted in final form, but taxpayers may rely on them for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017 if they are consistently followed.

We believe that, based on the implementation of our current business plan and the application of the insurance exception, our non-U.S. insurance subsidiaries should be considered QICs engaged in the active conduct of an insurance business under one or both of the “factual requirements test” or the “active conduct percentage test,” our U.S. insurance subsidiaries should be considered QDICs and none of the income or assets of such insurance subsidiaries should be treated as passive. In addition, the income and assets attributable to our non-U.S. subsidiaries that are not insurance subsidiaries are minimal, relative to the income and assets attributable to our other subsidiaries. As a result, based on the application of the look-through rule, we believe that Aspen Holdings should not be characterized as a PFIC for the current year or the foreseeable future. However, because of legal uncertainties with respect to