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| In our treaty reinsurance business, we saw cumulative net rate increases of more than 26% in Q3, and we definitely expect that strong momentum to continue as we head into the January 1st renewals |
| Now just move on to some key highlights for the third quarter and the year-to-date, growth -- premium growth was very strong at over 25% in Q3, leading to over more than or growth of more than 22% for the first nine months |
| So all in all, the landscape for short tail remains very encouraging with lots of opportunity and strong rate momentum |
| The current market conditions continue to provide us with the opportunity to clearly demonstrate our proficiency at shifting our focus to those lines and markets with the highest margins |
| For the quarter, we exceeded our long-term averages on most financial measures through the consistent execution of our strategy |
| We have an excellent third quarter with very strong performance across all key metrics |
| The first nine months fared very similarly, again with a 1.6 point improvement in the annual investment yield up to 33.8% |
| Mentioned our ROEs earlier for the third quarter nine months, but we just add that we grew our book value year to date per share by more than 21% to $11.04 as at the 30th of September, so all in an excellent quarter and year to date in ‘23 with plenty to be optimistic about for the remainder of the year and going into ’24 |
| In summary, we remain very optimistic with the current market overall and opportunities for us to expand our portfolio |
| We take the promise seriously and I'm very pleased with what we have been able to achieve |
| Our teams have remained steadfast to focus on the task at hand, the strong collaboration and cooperation underpinning consistently solid execution |
| We will continue as always to maintain our focus and remain selective so that we continue on the very positive and profitable growth trajectory that we're on |
| Having said that, we are very clearly riding the wave of some very favorable market conditions, and all indications are that this will continue for the foreseeable future |
| Specifically in the short tail segment, we grew gross premiums by over 28% in Q3 and 22.5%for the first nine months compared to same periods last year |
| The reinsurance treaty business was also up well more than double that ofQ3, and the first nine months as we continue to take advantage of the housing market we've been speaking about |
| Latin America continues to show healthy rate momentum while Asia is improving |
| continues to outpace all of the markets with rate increases more than 20% in the lines that we're writing |
| This resulted in a 1.4 point improvement in the annualized investment yield to 3.9% for Q3 |
| In six of the last seven quarters, we've recorded combined ratios in the low to mid 70s with core operating ROEs well in excess of 20% and sometimes 30% |
| While always staying within our risk appetite, it is discipline and focus that is leading to the consistency and quality of our results |
| We have around 1.5 million shares left under the existing repurchase authorization, and as I mentioned a moment ago, we executed the warrant exchange transaction for cash during Q3 and the warrants delisted on the 4th of October, which helps in simplifying our balance sheet and providing us with greater flexibility as we look at the future |
| And there continues to be an abundance of profitable opportunities across our portfolio, but particularly as we've seen recently in our short tail and reinsurance segments |
| So -- but for the first nine months, net income was up 27.5% when compared to the same period a year ago |
| I would dare to say that IGI is currently one of the best performing specialty alliance company |
| But overall within the short tail segment, we've seen cumulative net rate increases of over 9%, and this is fairly steady with what we've been seeing since the beginning of the year |
| For year to date, we have grown our book value per share by more than 21% |
| As we continue to take advantage of the opportunities in this attractive segments at the moment |
| We are committed to continuing to build value for our shareholders who have put their trust in IGI and support to us |
| This is critical to our ability to achieve the results you're seeing from us today and what is driving our successful track record at IGI |
| But I would say the truer measure of our performance is core operating income, which increased almost 30% in Q3 and 29% for the first nine months, when compared to the same periods last year |
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| And as we've said in previous quarters, the long tail segments remain under a bit of pressure |
| You did see, however, from a press release that net income was impacted by an negative movement of about $17.2 million in the fair value of warrants and earnout shares |
| We've seen renewal rates most pressured in D&O and FI, Financial Institutions, where there's a greater degree of margin compression, and therefore a higher degree of contraction in those books |
| Net income for Q3 was 10.9 million, which was a decrease of about 52% versus 22.6 million in Q3 last year |
| We will continue, as ever, to take a cautious and selective approach to this business |
| So while rates are coming down, they're coming down from decently high levels, and as a result, largely remain more than adequate |
| It's not responding as impactfully as we had anticipated |
| In the Middle East, where we've got a broad and diversified risk portfolio representing a little less than 10% of our overall premiums, market conditions are quite mixed with evidence of increasing competitive pressures in line |
| For example, properties, seeing overall increases of a little bit more than 15% with the higher rate increases in the U.S., lower levels of increases in some other -- in other regions and in some regions, we're actually seeing reductions |
| Rates continue to trend downward but mostly in an orderly fashion |
| I said on last quarter's call that we don't expect to achieve mid 70s combined ratios and ROEs above the 30% mark every quarter |
| Story in the long tail segment is not dissimilar to what we've mentioned in the last couple of quarters |
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