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| This dynamic should extend the favorable pricing environment and insurance for the foreseeable future and will also benefit our pro rata business in the reinsurance segment |
| As Juan indicated, we had excellent operating performance in Q1, the Jan renewal and really in the lead up to the January renewal which really translated into us having a broad set of opportunities |
| Everest started off strong in 2023, with significant growth, increased underwriting profits and operating ROE over 17% and total shareholder return in excess of 14% |
| And then as we go forward, the 4/1 renewal was outstanding, 5/1 renewal a little bit smaller, but also excellent results |
| In reinsurance, our leadership position was abundantly clear in the ongoing hard market flight to quality |
| Our team’s consistent execution resulted in record gross written premiums and expanded margins |
| The momentum is strong and our ambitions were high |
| And again, a very attractive ceding commission |
| This led to stronger underwriting profits over last year |
| Everest is uniquely positioned to succeed in this market |
| We are bringing the full power of the Everest global franchise, together with underwriting discipline and the best talent in the business to drive sustainable returns |
| Group underwriting profit, net investment income, operating income and net income all increased meaningfully in the quarter |
| Growth was excellent and we continue to see great opportunities for continued expansion |
| We grew gross written premiums by almost 20% in constant dollars year-over-year, led by the reinsurance division, which achieved record quarterly premiums |
| Continued rate increases, exposure growth and strong underwriting discipline create margin expansion and keep us ahead of loss trend |
| And so those were terrific opportunities |
| We think the market will continue to dislocate, we will have incredible opportunities to grow with our best-in-class clients and really allocate our capacity to superior returns |
| I think as you can see, our operating performance was excellent in the first quarter |
| We improved our attritional loss ratio 30 basis points year-over-year, reflecting pricing momentum and improving terms |
| So all a tremendous amount of really high-quality opportunity that we’re capturing |
| Turning to investments, our high-quality portfolio produced net investment income of $260 million, a 7% improvement from prior year, driven by higher new money yields |
| Reinsurance delivered an outstanding first quarter performance, with significant top and bottom line growth |
| We capitalized on our well-positioned and scalable reinsurance franchise, our leadership position, the heart of property cat market and our deep client and broker relationships, resulting in excellent outcomes for the portfolio at the January 1 and April 1 renewals |
| So we feel very good about the margin that we’re adding, the growth that we’re adding both domestically and globally |
| We targeted attractive opportunities to grow with trusted partners and materially improved risk-adjusted returns |
| Our practice of setting clear and consistent expectations early with clients and brokers led to significant improvements in pricing and terms and conditions across our portfolio, while building long-term relationship equity |
| At the same time and very important and Mark had touched on this in his opening remarks, we also saw terrific opportunities in both casualty and property pro rata |
| So, I think the platform is clearly well demonstrated to meet this opportunity |
| So look, we feel very good about our positioning in this market, our ability to execute our plan |
| The value we created with our partners gives us a competitive advantage, helps us deepen our relationships and creates new opportunities |
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| We remain cautious in certain lines, including monolines worker compensation and public company D&O |
| One, the XOL premium growth was clearly a bit lower than the pricing you saw in property cat |
| We isolated the poor claim performance to a single block of business, took decisive action and nonrenewed it |
| As we head into the upcoming renewals, our value proposition and relationships in the market have never been stronger |
| We expect the hard market in reinsurance to put upward pressure on primary insurance pricing |
| You have 50,000 people killed in Turkey alone, another 10,000 in Syria is a huge human tragedy, our view is that is a real cat loss |
| Ceding commissions are also starting to come down |
| So, on the Turkey quake, a couple of things, one, our loss was $70 million for the Turkey quake |
| And so we’re being very cautious on that |
| Despite these events, our loss experience came in lower than our planned cat mode |
| And on the demand side, we have all the issues that we’ve all lived through together, right? You have inflation, which is putting upward pressure on values, there is volatility in the environment, social inflation and other things |
| It’s difficult to see sulfur moving that much this year |
| And that will exert downward pressure on our loss ratio and our combined ratio |
| It’s one of the reasons why you don’t see us picking up losses from the spring events in the U.S |
| This included pre-tax catastrophe losses of $108 million, net of estimated recoveries and restatement premiums for the Turkey earthquakes and New Zealand floods and typhoon |
| in the quarter, when we see public D&O and maybe workers’ compensation, not as attractive as other lines of business, we can move away from those lines, be cautious as I have said, and deploy that capital into other lines of business, which could be again, short tail property in Europe or in Latin America or even within the U.S., given what I said earlier |
| Despite severe weather in the U.S |
| At the end of the quarter, unrealized losses in the fixed income portfolio equate to approximately $1.5 billion, $250 million lower as compared to year-end 2022 |
| On the property side, our view is we’re at the very beginning stages of a major correction in the primary property market |
| So, I think what you see in Q1 will hold for the remaining of the year, potentially go down if sulfur goes down |
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