Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: F-1/A
Source: 0001628280-25-020463
Chunk: 365

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: F-1/A
Chunk 365
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 surplus lines policies in all 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.

Aspen UK and Syndicate 4711 are not licensed to write insurance on an admitted basis in any state in the United States, but are alien insurers eligible to write surplus lines business in all 50 U.S. states, the District of

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Columbia, Puerto Rico and other U.S. jurisdictions based on their listing in the Quarterly Listing of Alien Insurers of the International Insurers Department (“IID”) of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”), the organization that works to promote standardization of best practices and assists state insurance regulatory authorities and insurers in the United States by promulgating model insurance laws and regulations for adoption by the states. However, model insurance laws and regulations are only effective when adopted by the states. Pursuant to IID requirements, Aspen UK and Syndicate 4711 have established a U.S. surplus lines trust fund to secure obligations under U.S. surplus lines policies. As of December 31, 2024, Aspen UK’s and Syndicate 4711’s surplus lines trust fund was $150.2 million (December 31, 2023 — $126.6 million).

The insurance laws and regulations of our U.S. subsidiaries’ domiciliary states have the most significant impact on our U.S. operations as well as the lead state regulator of an insurance holding company system. AAIC is domiciled in Texas and Aspen Specialty is domiciled in North Dakota. AAIC and Aspen Specialty are part of the Apollo Global Management Group holding company system. The lead state insurance regulator for the Apollo Global Management Group holding company system is the Iowa Insurance Division.

Generally, U.S. states regulate insurance holding companies to assure the fairness of inter-affiliate transactions, the propriety of dividends paid to corporate parents and the benefits of any proposed change of control transaction. States also regulate insurer solvency, accounting matters and risk management, as well as a range of operational matters, including authorized lines of business, permitted investments, policy forms and premium rates for admitted companies, maximum single policy risks, adequacy of reserves for losses and unearned premiums and maintenance of in-state deposits for the benefit of policyholders. To monitor compliance, state insurance departments perform periodic market conduct examinations and financial fitness examinations and require the filing of annual and other reports relating to the financial condition of companies and other matters. Certain U.S. regulatory requirements are highlighted below.

Although the U.S. federal government