Ark
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The backed carrier expanded top line by 16% over the quarter.
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The renewal included $130mn from White Mountains, considerably less than the $205mn Ark’s parent kicked in for 2023.
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The carrier has hired Ed Atkin, Piers Harding and George Wallace from Talbot and Callum Bennett from Chaucer to run the new book.
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The combined ratio included 11 points of catastrophe losses, largely arising from Hurricane Idalia and the Maui wildfires.
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Carr has spent over 20 years in the market, holding several leadership positions at Tokio Marine HCC, Axis and others.
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The carrier experienced three large claims in Q2 in the property and marine and energy lines of business.
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The company announced on Wednesday that Liddell’s deputy Thomas Leonardo would succeed him as global head of A&H, with immediate effect.
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The carrier has expanded its team since launching into the class of business in 2020.
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New sidecar Outrigger Re posted a combined ratio of 21% and gross written premiums of $44mn.
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The carrier benefited from light cat losses and positive prior-year development in the fourth quarter.
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TigerRisk Capital Markets & Advisory acted as exclusive structuring and placement agent for the reinsurance sidecar.
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Outrigger Re will write a quota share of Ark’s Bermuda property treaty book.
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The carrier boosted gross written premiums by 33% and posted profits of $24mn.
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The two Lloyd’s players are the first to bring sidecars to market as they seek to capitalise on surging projected returns.
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The carrier focuses on risk and treaty catastrophe A&H coverage through its NOA Syndicate.
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The carrier also reported a pre-tax $21mn loss for the second quarter of 2022, driven by unrealised and realised losses on investments.
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Cat losses added 16 points to the combined ratio during the quarter, including an unquantified impact from Ukraine claims.
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The White Mountains-owned carrier benefited from reserve releases from Hurricane Ida losses in Q4.
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White Mountains-backed carrier Ark has reported a 92% combined ratio for the third quarter, and a 95% combined ratio for the nine months to 30 September.
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Other industry executives recognised on the night included Ark CEO Ian Beaton, Lloyd’s CFO Burkhard Keese and Howden CEO David Howden.
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From ESG to social inflation, systemic risk to cat risk, we highlight some of the top discussions from this year’s four-day virtual conference.
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A reinsurance panel at Reconnect also called for reform of risk models
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The carrier benefitted from risk-adjusted rate change of over 7% in the period to bring GWP to $328mn.
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The plan to invest an extra $200mn was laid out in the original deal between White Mountains and Ark announced on 1 October and completed on 1 January.