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| The portfolio is well positioned to generate cash flow that can be invested at higher yields |
| We continue to achieve strong pricing of 9% in Package Speciality and 10% in Targeted Specialty class specific, which is in line with our expectation and exceeds expected loss trends |
| In this higher interest rate environment, our portfolio is well positioned to increase book yield |
| Investment income increased significantly in 2023 and underwriting income was positive |
| Our core business is providing positive returns compared to 2022, expenses are much lower due to actions taken in early 2023 |
| So we're very, very happy with the actions that we've taken to reduce [Audio Gap] for this company |
| We are pleased with the direction of our company |
| The underlying profitability of our continuing book of business commence my view that better results will be forthcoming in the future |
| Our investment yield is rising every month with overall investment income coming in at $14 million for the quarter and $39 million year-to-date, more than double that from a year ago |
| But at this point in time, we're very satisfied with the book of business that we're underwriting |
| Package Specialty, which is comprised of Penn-America business, the Company's primary [Audio Gap] Increased gross written premiums from $52.7 million to $53.5 million in '23 |
| Collectibles grew approximately 14% to $4.8 million |
| Within Targeted Specialty, several products grew |
| In the third quarter of '23, Exited Lines had good development of approximately $11.9 million, primarily from property reserves |
| Excluding $2.3 million of underperforming business that was terminated from 2022, Package Specialty grew 6% during the quarter |
| This is well ahead of the third quarter of last year, which had $8.4 million, comprised of $9.5 million of fixed income and a negative $1.1 million from alternatives |
| The Vacant Express product generated $8.5 million of premium in the third quarter of 2023, which is up 28% compared to the third quarter of 2022 |
| Both of those things are driving a lot of growth there |
| Book value per share increased from $46.03 per share at June 30, 2023, to $46.27 per share at September 30, 2023 |
| Great |
| Within our Continuing Lines, loss reserves were strengthened by approximately $11.8 million, up approximately $7 million is related to Targeted Specialty business |
| Booked reserves remain above actuarial indications |
| So it's -- we have full expectations that the bulk yield of our portfolio will continue to increase |
| With the current book yield of 4%, a duration of 1.2 years and $800 million of cash flow from the investment portfolio in the next five quarters, we fully expect that this number should keep rising every quarter |
| Offsetting these results were more than satisfactory growth of 12% in Package Specialty and 17% in InsurTech, both of which are consistent with our long-term growth objectives |
| Actions taken to focus on core business lines, reduce expenses, reduce catastrophe exposure, and reposition the investment portfolio are being realized |
| Tom will provide more details but our decision to play defense on interest rates by dramatically shortening the duration of our bond portfolio starting 21 months ago continues to pay dividends |
| Tom Kerr That's great |
| Although we are on target for expense dollars, the premium shortfall in targeted class specific means that going forward, we have a bit more work to do to achieve our long-term 36% expense ratio objective |
| Thank you for joining us and your continued interest in investment in Global Indemnity |
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| In terms of loss and loss expense ratio, the 60.2% ratio is falling short of our long-term target due to a combination of high catastrophe losses, about two points higher than expected year-to-date, and continued loss emergence for terminated casualty business in Package Specialty and Targeted Specialty class specific, causing another couple of points below target |
| While we continue to make progress against our longer-term goals, both the overall accident year and calendar year underwriting results of our continuing operates -- operations were modestly short of our objectives |
| This compares to $16.9 million in '22, comprised of $22.8 million from fixed income investments and negative investment income of $5.9 million from alternatives |
| Although we continue to make good progress against our growth objectives, we are still observing some continued negative effects from our restructuring efforts, primarily in our Targeted Specialty class specific segment, where our priority focus on profitability has caused a drop in gross written premium through the first nine months of 32% |
| As we have noticed in our previous calls this year, the significant restructuring that occurred at the beginning of 2023, continues to make direct comparisons to prior year overall results somewhat difficult |
| There is no more premium after the first quarter but we did have some earned from that program this year, and we continue to see some adverse development related to that program, which is included in the reserve strengthening numbers that we noted |
| The $2.7 million accident year underwriting profit contains losses from the Maui fires of $2.5 million |
| Exited Lines had an accident year underwriting loss of $0.9 million in the third quarter of 2023 |
| Although Tom will report on all of our GAAP results, I will share the observation that the same terminated business that has hurt our 2023 accident year results, was the source of reserve strengthening that we have experienced this year in Commercial Specialty |
| Our losses -- our Continuing Lines cat losses for the quarter were only $5.2 million, $2.5 million of that was Maui |
| We had a big slowdown in reported claims and then a backlog in certain litigation environments |
| So it affected current accident year because that business is running off to the tune of about $7 million |
| Exited Lines are continuing to run down as expected |
| Our reinsurance buy has been able to come down significantly |
| We also made a decision to exit some lines of business that we weren't in a position to have proper expense ratios |
| We expect the drag from this exit of business will decline as the business runs off and support for businesses sold in 2021 and 2022, is no longer required to be provided |
| Even though interest rates rose, the short-duration portfolio kept unrealized losses to $0.9 million net of tax during the quarter |
| I'm just going to add one thing to Jay -- to what Jay said also, is within Targeted specialty, there was also an underperforming program that was terminated in the first quarter of this year |
| And obviously, we've tried to estimate that precisely as we've gone through '21, '22 and '23, but there has been some lag effect |
| This decline is mainly due to nonrenewing casualty treaty |
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