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| One, we made solid progress on improving underlying combined and loss ratios |
| As we renewed policies at higher rates, persistency remained in line with prior periods, creating favorable premium retention |
| Our underlying combined ratio improved sequentially and was inside the range of our prior guidance |
| Third is the strong progress made on our strategic initiatives, which together reduce our long-term risk, improve our capital and liquidity, and enhance our ability to generate stable, long-term distributed cash flow in earnings |
| Looking at results, we're pleased with the 1.5 point sequential improvement in the Specialty P&C underlying combined ratio as the benefits from our profit improvement actions take further hold |
| We have confidence in further improvements as we look forward |
| This incremental earned rate, along with the additional benefits from all our other profit improvement actions, provides a significant tailwind for loss ratio improvement in the fourth quarter and more so for full year 2024 |
| Reflecting on our third major topic, we continue to make strong progress on our strategic initiatives |
| The California rate change for specialty auto, while an increasing impact over the next two quarters, reinforcing our confidence in returning to target margins |
| We're very pleased that our reciprocal exchange has received all necessary approvals and was actively writing business during the quarter albeit at expectedly modest premium levels |
| If you look at it over any rolling 12-month period, you'd feel good about the underlying profitability there |
| First is the favorable trend in our underlying results |
| Life business continues to generate strong returns on capital and distributed cash flow |
| Advancing these initiatives further enhances Kemper's operating capabilities and financial profile |
| Our healthy liquidity balance enabled us to support our operating subsidiaries and pay holding company dividends and interest payments |
| Consumer demand for our products is strong, with life issue policies were up slightly and persistency remains stable |
| As Joe highlighted, we had another quarter of improved underlying results, positioning us for return to profitability |
| Profitability improved over the prior year quarter and sequential quarter |
| You could reasonably expect that earned rate will more than offset loss trend and will continue to provide combined ratio improvement over the next couple of quarters |
| In the third quarter, the underlying combined ratio was 93.6%, and we project continued profitability as pricing remained strong |
| Our commercial vehicle underwriting and rate actions are continuing to positively impact loss performance |
| We expect to realize significant additional liquidity benefits in the fourth quarter from the Bermuda Optimization |
| And it's still a very strong combined ratio there |
| This action will enhance our return on capital and support profitable growth in our core businesses |
| We anticipate the cumulative benefit of our profit actions to continue to exceed loss trends |
| So we actually think that by opening the filters slightly, the cohorts we're adding and the business we're adding should be better from a target return perspective on its lifetime basis than the full enforces right now |
| And finally, we're meeting or exceeding the expected expense savings with each of our cost structure initiatives |
| And the $1.4 billion was a surge of earnings in the 2020 time period when people weren't driving |
| As we get further away from that, we're confident in what we have reserved |
| In addition, enhanced tools and analytics will enable a thoughtful balancing of underwriting profitability and new business writings |
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| We've got a very significant new business slowdown |
| It's a source of concern in the marketplace when we see just on the one slide in your investor decks on page 10, see how the parent company liquidity, the total has gone from $1.3 billion down to $821 million |
| This quarter, Specialty P&C observed a moderate level of catastrophe losses driven by tropical storms and wind/hail events |
| Our expense ratio has a little bit of a temperature partly because there's some decline in new business and partly because or there's a declining business overall, and partly because there's new business fees that are charged as a contra expense |
| And I know other companies are having challenges with their commercial auto |
| But if I look, you've had adverse development in your personal auto business for four quarters in a row |
| The business generated net loss of $7 million, including approximately $14 million in pretax catastrophe losses |
| The iteration of the 10% plus ROE, some of the pushback I'm getting is that that may be sort of, I don't know, to sign a communicate this or not, essentially a reduction in the earnings expectations for next year because the capital is lower because of the losses we've incurred in this quarter, for example |
| This is largely driven, Greg, by our reduction in new business or our constraint on new business policies |
| It's declining substantially on a year-over-year basis and sequentially |
| And then just looking what these numbers were like in the second quarter, it was $970 million down again to $821 million at the end of the third quarter |
| And you will not see the combined ratio continue to improve way in excess of what might be a target that would produce that combined ratio |
| That was really an anomaly |
| For the quarter, we had a net loss of $2.28 per diluted share and adjusted consolidated net operating loss is $0.44 |
| As Joe noted, the environment continues to be volatile |
| That $150 million was split between a decline in holding company cash and liquidity and a reduction in our revolver capacity |
| While, we believe this will persist for at least a year or two |
| The net loss and adjusted consolidated net operating loss included specialty auto adverse development of $78 million and catastrophes of $7 million |
| This is below the line |
| And so we're slightly below the $400 million today |
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