Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: F-1/A
Source: 0001628280-25-020463
Chunk: 145

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: F-1/A
Chunk 145
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 of relatively short duration of 2.9 years as of December 31, 2024, we are well placed to take advantage of attractive investment yields as we rotate and reinvest.

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Insurance and Reinsurance Market Trends and Developments

Insurance Segment: While market conditions remain competitive, despite increased competition, our market relevance and positioning remain strong across all portfolios (casualty and liability lines, financial and professional lines, specialty lines, and first party lines). Inflation (both social and economic) continue to be material considerations in risk selection and pricing. While casualty and liability lines has seen continued rate increases with six consecutive years of positive movement and a meaningful compound effect, we continue to closely monitor the impact of social inflation, litigation funding and large mass tort verdicts, and accordingly our growth in casualty and liability lines of business is limited. Within our financial and professional lines portfolio, market conditions are beginning to reflect some stabilization after a period of softening within cyber insurance products. This is likely attributable in part to recent industry claim activity. Rates in professional lines remain strong, but market conditions appear to be softening more rapidly in some classes of business.

Reinsurance Segment : Overall, the reinsurance market is moving through the pricing cycle from the peak profit margins realized in 2023 and 2024 to more modest but acceptable profitability for 2025. The property catastrophe market is noticeably more competitive with rates adjusting down by single digits. The reinsurance market has maintained its discipline with respect to the amounts of catastrophe risk covered and reinsurers have not compromised their risk appetite and associated attachment points. We actively monitor our property catastrophe portfolio, have conviction in the pricing of this business and consider the long-term return adequate. The other property reinsurance and specialty reinsurance lines such as Marine, Energy, Medical Expense and Terrorism exhibited similar dynamics with pressure on rates and increased commissions. Similar to property catastrophe, these classes of business remain well-priced and attractive. The casualty reinsurance lines renewal remained competitive in January 2025. These renewals reflected higher pricing, responding to the market wide concerns about adverse development from accident years 2015 through 2019 as a result of elevated loss inflation.

Tax Updates

On December 27, 2023, the Government of Bermuda enacted the CIT Act, which applies a 15% corporate income tax to certain Bermuda businesses in fiscal years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. The CIT Act includes a provision referred to as the economic transition adjustment, which is intended to