Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd.
We are a global specialty insurance and reinsurance company founded in Bermuda in 2013. We harness multiple drivers to create shareholder value. These include diverse underwriting operations supported by proprietary technology and a team of over 500 full-time employees, a strong balance sheet, and a unique investment management relationship with Two Sigma Investments, LP (“Two Sigma”). We operate globally, with underwriting operations in Lloyd’s of London (“Lloyd’s”), Ireland, Bermuda, and the United States. We are led by an entrepreneurial and experienced management team that have almost tripled our gross premiums written over the last five years, from $571 million for the year ended November 30, 2018 to $1.6 billion for the year ended December 31, 2022, while also reducing our combined ratio by 22 percentage points. We believe the combined effects of organic premium growth, strategic acquisition, new market developments and continuous platform cost optimization leave us well positioned to capitalize on the favorable market conditions across the lines of business written by our established and scaled underwriting platforms. We operate three principal underwriting platforms (Hamilton Global Specialty, Hamilton Select and Hamilton Re) that are categorized into two reporting business segments (International and Bermuda): • International: Accounting for 57% of gross premiums written for the year ended December 31, 2022, International consists of business written out of our Lloyd’s syndicate and subsidiaries based in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States, and includes the Hamilton Global Specialty and Hamilton Select platforms. • Hamilton Global Specialty focuses predominantly on commercial specialty and casualty insurance for medium to large-sized accounts and specialty reinsurance products written by Lloyd’s Syndicate 4000 and Hamilton Insurance DAC (“HIDAC”). Syndicate 4000, a leading Lloyd’s syndicate, generates a significant portion of premium from the U.S. Excess & Surplus (“E&S”) market and has ranked among the most profitable and least volatile syndicates at Lloyd’s over the last 10 years. • Hamilton Select, our recently launched U.S. domestic E&S carrier, writes casualty insurance for small to mid-sized clients in the hard-to-place niche of the U.S. E&S market. We believe it presents meaningful and profitable growth opportunities in the near to long term, further expanding our footprint in the U.S. E&S market. • Bermuda: Accounting for 43% of our gross premiums written for the year ended December 31, 2022, Bermuda consists of the Hamilton Re platform, made up of Hamilton Re, Ltd. (“Hamilton Re”) and Hamilton Re US. Hamilton Re writes property, casualty and specialty reinsurance business on a global basis and also offers high excess Bermuda market specialty insurance products, predominantly for large U.S. commercial risks. Hamilton Re US writes casualty and specialty reinsurance business on a global basis. Our evolution into a specialty insurance and reinsurance company reached a significant turning point in 2018 with the hiring of Pina Albo, our Group CEO and the start of our strategic business transformation (the “Strategic Transformation”). Ms. Albo is a 30+ year veteran in the insurance industry, having served as a member of the Board of Executive Management at Munich Re, where she had a 25-year career, as well as serving on the Board of RGA Reinsurance Company (a Fortune 500 public company) and recently being appointed as the first female Chair of the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers. The Strategic Transformation commenced in 2018, when we set a new strategy and business priorities and was propelled by the appointment of an experienced management team focused on employing rigorous risk selection and creating sustainable underwriting profitability. The Strategic Transformation also included enhancing corporate governance, re-underwriting and repositioning our business to increase the focus on casualty and specialty insurance and reinsurance lines, decreasing volatility by reducing our expense ratio and exposure to legacy liabilities, and investing in business-enabling technology. The Strategic Transformation also involved focusing on both profitable organic and inorganic growth and was accelerated in 2019 when we acquired Pembroke Managing Agency and related entities, which included Pembroke Managing Agency (subsequently renamed Hamilton Managing Agency), Lloyd’s Syndicate 4000 and Ironshore Europe DAC (“IEDAC,” subsequently renamed Hamilton Insurance DAC or HIDAC) (all acquired entities hereinafter referred to as “PMA”). This acquisition doubled and diversified our premium base, increased our underwriting expertise and operational capabilities, and provided us with a fully-scaled Lloyd’s platform. As a result of the strategic actions taken in the context of the Strategic Transformation, in the five years since 2018, we increased gross premiums written at a compound annual rate of approximately 30%(1), reduced our combined ratio significantly, optimized the portfolio mix by increasing the contribution from specialty insurance and strengthened our balance sheet. While the Strategic Transformation is complete, we continuously review our portfolio to optimize underwriting returns and opportunities, and drive additional benefits by regular collaboration with our Group Underwriting Committee (“GUC”). We believe Hamilton is consequently well positioned to deliver growth and profitability in the current attractive market environment and across all market cycles. Our proprietary technology has been a critical part of our Strategic Transformation by enabling the growth of our business and the execution of our strategy. This technology includes a catastrophe modeling and risk accumulation tool (Hamilton Analytics and Risk Platform or “HARP”), a global underwriting submission system (“Timeflow”), an efficient end-to-end specialty insurance underwriting workbench (Multi-line Insurance Toolkit or “MINT”), and a business intelligence and management information system (Hamilton Insights). Unlike many of our peers, we are not burdened by legacy systems and have modernized, cloud-based core platforms, which have enabled us to design and implement our proprietary systems to be a competitive advantage for our business. The growth of our business is supported by a strong balance sheet. As of December 31, 2022, Hamilton had total assets of $5.8 billion, total invested assets of $3.3 billion and shareholders’ equity of $1.7 billion. Our total invested assets of $3.3 billion includes $1.3 billion of securities in our fixed maturity trading portfolio and short-term investments, or 39% of our total invested assets, with an average credit rating of Aa3 and of which 100% are investment grade. We also enjoy a low debt-to-capital ratio of 7.9% at June 30, 2023, which compares favorably to our peers and provides us with meaningful financial flexibility to execute against our strategy. The Company had a net loss attributable to common shareholders of $98.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. Cumulatively, since the inception of the Company to December 31, 2022, our net income attributable to common shareholders was $561.6 million. The Company has demonstrated its ability to withstand catastrophe and other significant loss events across changing market cycles and we believe it is well placed to take advantage of the current hard market conditions. Our prudent reserving approach fortifies our financial position and has resulted in reserve releases every year since inception(2). Our Lloyd’s syndicate benefits from financial strength ratings of “A” (Excellent) from A.M. Best Rating Services, Inc. (“A.M. Best”), “A+” from S&P Global Ratings (“S&P Global”), “AA-” from Kroll Bond Rating Agency (“KBRA”) and “AA-” from Fitch Ratings Ltd. (“Fitch”), all of which are Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (“NRSROs”) as defined by the SEC. Our other insurance and reinsurance subsidiaries hold an “A-” (Excellent) rating from A.M. Best and an “A” rating from KBRA, each with a positive outlook. We believe these ratings demonstrate the financial strength of our insurance and reinsurance platforms and facilitate our ability to capitalize on new opportunities with our policyholders, cedants and distribution partners. (1) Gross premiums written from 2018 to 2022 were $571 million, $731 million, $1,087 million, $1,447 million, and $1,647 million, respectively. (2) Excluding the U.S. GAAP accounting impact of a loss portfolio transfer purchased in 2020. Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd. Wellesley House North, 1st Floor 90 Pitts Bay Road Pembroke HM 08 Bermuda.