Company: AXS-PE
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001214816-25-000115
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Company: AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 2
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 several dimensions including potential impacts on economic growth, loss costs, and the threat of a recessionary environment. At AXIS, on an ongoing basis we assess all forms of uncertainty presented, and through our normal underwriting practices we take steps and measures that guard against adverse outcomes.

Nonetheless, the overall outlook for the property and casualty market remains favorable for specialty insurance and reinsurance carriers. Looking at the trends impacting our business:

•Following multiple years of rate increases outpacing loss cost trends across the specialty sector, overall pricing has moderated and in some sectors is softening. Casualty lines continue to see positive rate achievement while property rates are deteriorating due to the influx of capital being deployed in the space. We continue to lean into sectors, where premium adequacy metrics are strong, where market dislocations arise and where organic profitable growth opportunities exist.

•The wholesale channel continues to experience substantial submission growth due to dislocations in the standard lines markets. This dynamic enables specialty carriers to deploy a disciplined underwriting strategy to market opportunities. 

•Pricing momentum in non-proportional reinsurance continues while our proportional reinsurance business is benefiting from rate increases in the underlying business. While we expect these market conditions to persist, we are seeing nuances by line of business. We continue to focus on underwriting discipline and targeted profitable growth.

Across the business, we will pursue attractive opportunities by employing a focused underwriting strategy and selective appetite. Where price continues to deliver adequate profitability, we will look to grow within our risk and volatility guidelines. With a strengthened book of business, and an expanding footprint in attractive specialty markets, we believe AXIS remains positioned to drive profitable growth in 2025 and beyond.

Recent Developments 

Loss Portfolio Transfer Reinsurance Agreement with Enstar

On April 24, 2025, we completed a loss portfolio transfer reinsurance agreement with Cavello Bay Reinsurance Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enstar Group Limited ("Enstar") to retrocede a portfolio of reinsurance business predominantly related to 2021 and prior underwriting years (refer to Item 1, Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements 'Related Party Transactions' for further details). 

The transaction is structured as a 75% ground-up quota share retrocession of net reserves for losses and loss expenses of approximately $3.1 billion at September 30, 2024 and provides cover up to a policy limit of approximately $940 million. The transaction is deemed to have met the established criteria for retroactive reinsurance accounting.

Under the terms of the loss