NYSE:SPNT SiriusPoint Q1 2023 Earnings Report $16.55 -0.05 (-0.30%) Closing price 04/25/2025 03:59 PM EasternExtended Trading$16.54 -0.02 (-0.09%) As of 04/25/2025 04:27 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. Earnings HistoryForecast SiriusPoint EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.78Consensus EPS N/ABeat/MissN/AOne Year Ago EPSN/ASiriusPoint Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$684.90 millionExpected RevenueN/ABeat/MissN/AYoY Revenue GrowthN/ASiriusPoint Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2023Date5/3/2023TimeN/AConference Call DateThursday, May 4, 2023Conference Call Time8:30AM ETUpcoming EarningsSiriusPoint's Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Monday, May 5, 2025, with a conference call scheduled on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by SiriusPoint Q1 2023 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrMay 4, 2023 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 4 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Gentlemen, and welcome to SiriusPoint Limited First Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. During today's presentation, all parties will be in listen only mode. As a reminder, Mr. And Chief Strategy Officer of SiriusPoint. Please go ahead now, sir. Speaker 100:00:26For the 2023 Q1 results. Last night, we issued our earnings press release and financial supplement, which are both available on our website, www.sariuspt.com. Additionally, a webcast presentation will coincide with today's discussion and is available on our website. With me here today are Scott Egan, our Chief Executive Officer and Steve Yendel, our Chief Financial Officer. Before we start, I would like to remind you that today's remarks contain forward looking statements based on management's current expectations. Speaker 100:01:07Actual results may differ. Please refer to Page 2 of our investor presentation for additional information and the company's latest public filings. At this point, I will turn the call over to Scott. Speaker 200:01:23Thank you, Drew, and good morning, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining our Q1 results call. We have been busy executing against our strategic priorities, which I outlined as part of our full year 2022 results. I intend to provide you with a fuller update on our progress against these our half year results update, But today, I will highlight the significant progress we have made during this quarter. Before we get into the results, I would like to update on 2 areas. Speaker 200:01:55Firstly, we are extremely pleased to announce today the appointment of Bronick Masajadda is an independent director to our Board. Ronik is a proven industry leader with over 30 years of insurance experience, which will further strengthen our Board. We look forward to welcoming him to the company. Secondly, turning to the 13D filing by Dan Loeb, as an update, the SiriusPoint Board of Directors has established a special committee of independent directors to review any acquisition proposal made by Mr. Loeb if and when a proposal is received. Speaker 200:02:32In connection with forming the special committee, the Board agreed that it would not move forward with any transaction unless it is first approved by the committee. I'd like to remind everyone that there is no assurance that any definitive agreement will be executed with Mr. Loeb or any other party or that a proposal or any other transaction will be approved or consummated. Now I will turn to our results and I will share some of the key messages from the last quarter. These are outlined on Slide 5 and provide an update on our strong progress across our strategic initiatives. Speaker 200:03:14Overall, we are pleased to report Continuing performance improvement in Q1 as we build on the progress made in Q3 and Q4 of last year. To put this in perspective, this is the first time we have delivered a quarterly profit since Q2 of 2021. Importantly, we have seen positive capital generation across all parts of our business, underwriting, MGAs and investment returns. Culture is an important part of the improvement journey and at Citi's point, we are focused on creating a performance culture that rewards underwriting performance and aligns closely with shareholder value creation. To that end, in our recent proxy statement released in April, we have made changes to the annual incentive plan for 2023. Speaker 200:04:10This sets out clearly that the target bonus will only be paid if the combined ratio for the continued operations is 95.7%. Therefore, you should take from that, this is the combined ratio management is targeting in 20 23 ex our loss portfolio transfer benefits and as of Q1, we are on track, but we also recognize there are 3 more quarters to go. This level of combined ratio would be a significant improvement compared to 2022. It also includes a switch of significant expenses from net corporate and other expenses to be within the combined ratio. We believe the significant change to structure and target levels closely aligns with shareholder value creation and most importantly indicates a step change in overall performance levels. Speaker 200:05:11Turning more specifically to our underwriting result for quarter 1, we delivered the combined ratio of 80.5%. This was supported by significant reserve releases. However, importantly, our combined ratio will be 2.5 points better year on year Excluding these releases and expense reallocations to combined ratio from outside of the underwriting result, We have also seen improvements in the attritional loss ratio. In addition, despite the high level of reserve for leases in the quarter, Our balance sheet is strong as we continue to maintain our prudent and conservative approach to reserve MIM. Investment results have also been strong this quarter and on a run rate basis in line to meet our full year guidance previously communicated. Speaker 200:06:06Our capital light fee income from our 5 consolidated MGAs is growing strongly year on year and are an important and efficient contributor to our profits. So, in summary, a strong performance from all key areas of our business, but of course with room to improve further. Our diluted book value per share grew very strongly by 9% to $12.31 during the quarter. This, as a reminder, doesn't fully reflect the value of our 5 consolidated MGAs, which are held at only $91,000,000 As of March 31, 2023, despite having a net service fee income of $36,000,000 in 2022 and a plan to grow in 2023 as demonstrated by our Q1 numbers. As I said before, These are underappreciated in our current book value. Speaker 200:07:03In summary, our focus on execution is high. It has to be. These set of results begin to show the evidence of this work. Our ambition is To keep the execution momentum and focus high as we see significant room for performance improvement over the next 2 to 3 years. Our aim and we expect it to close at the end of Q2 subject to regulatory approval. Speaker 200:07:29This remains on track. Today, we are also sharing new details on the split of reserves and the substantial capital release we expect as a result of this deal. The loss portfolio transfer covers around $1,300,000,000 of reserves, 76% and 24% respectively, and include lines of business, which we have already exited. It is also very attractive financially. We expect to release more than $150,000,000 of capital, which gives us future capital flexibility, further strengthening an already strong balance sheet. Speaker 200:08:13We will set out our thinking on this during the second half of this year. In addition, the financial benefits this deal provides finality to the portfolio we have exited in 2022 and aligns our balance sheet to the go forward strategy. Regarding our MGA portfolio, as it remains fewer and deeper investments, which align strongly with being more focused. During the quarter, we sold our equity stake in distinguished programs for $7,500,000 and released around $4,000,000 of capital, whilst also agreeing a multi year program to provide capacity. We are also committed Growing and strengthening specific MGA relationships are demonstrated by our recently announced renewal of our partnership with Arcadian, one of our 5 consolidated MGAs through to 2026. Speaker 200:09:15We wrote about $290,000,000 Gross written premiums with our KPN last year, which was a 35% growth on the prior year. Onto our balance sheet, which we further strengthened during the quarter. We continue to operate the company against the AA rating requirement under the S and Our efforts to improve performance are getting noticed and we have recently seen an upgrade on our ratings to stable from negative by Fitch. A. M. Speaker 200:09:46Best has also reaffirmed our unit solvency capital ratio is strong and has also improved to 217% at Q4 2022 versus 194% at Q3 2022 and we expect it to further improve by more than 15 points at the time of closing the loss portfolio transfer. Our debt to capital ratio fell by 1.5 percentage points during Q1 to around 26% as we benefited from the growth in book value. Our balance sheet is strong and we will explore more ways to optimize our capital structure. I would like to conclude by saying that it has been a busy quarter, but we are proud of the results we have posted. With each quarter, We aim to build confidence as we deliver on our plans. Speaker 200:10:41We are on track with the guidance we have given with the aim to do better if we can. Quarter 1 is a good start, but there is no room for complacency. We have a lot more to do, I am confident that we are on our way to becoming a less volatile, high performing specialist insurer. I look forward to continuing to share our progress against our plans and targets during the year. With these remarks, I will pass it over to Steve, who will take you through the Q1 financials. Speaker 300:11:15Thank you, Scott, and good morning, good afternoon, everyone. I will now take you through the financial section of the presentation and we'll start with Slide 7, looking at our Q1 financials for 2023. Overall, it was a positive quarter as we delivered profits and generated capital across all three sources of earnings, underwriting, MGA Fee Income and Investments. Net income for the quarter was up $356,000,000 versus Q1 of last year. Our results or mainly impacted by losses in the investment portfolio in 2022. Speaker 300:11:51During Q1, 2023, core underwriting results improved materially as we delivered underwriting profits of $107,000,000 which benefited from $90,000,000 of reserve redundancy linked to the LPT transaction. Excluding that $90,000,000 release, underwriting profits were $70,000,000 with a core ex LPT at 96.8%. Our actions are having an impact as attritional loss ratios and expenses were down, while our cat losses were stable versus prior year. We experienced $7,000,000 of cat losses in the quarter, which are primarily related to Turkey earthquake claims and are stable year on year. Gross premium written for the core business increased 5%, driven by insurance and services, up $181,000,000 partially offset by reinsurance down $128,000,000 while capital light net services fee income saw a steady increase at $18,000,000 versus $14,000,000 last year. Speaker 300:12:56Service revenues were up 12%, while margins are better at around 29%. Total investment result was $74,000,000 driven by $62,000,000 of net investment income, while unrealized and realized gains, including related party, for $12,000,000 and significantly higher than the $213,000,000 loss last year. These results Illustrate the progress we've made in rebalancing the investment portfolio towards high quality fixed income assets to reduce P and L volatility and capitalize on the current high interest rate environment. Net corporate and other expenses were down $16,000,000 and mainly driven as we move $10,000,000 of expenses above the line within our core results. Other notable items impacting income include $7,000,000 of restructuring costs and cost and $25,000,000 of negative mark to market from liability classified instruments. Speaker 300:13:59Moving on to Slide 8, we focus on the premium trends and I'll also provide an update on the April 1 renewals. Gross premiums for the core segment were up 5% quarter over quarter, mainly driven by the 37% growth in insurance and services. The growth in premiums is driven by organic growth in both strategic partnerships and across our access and health lines. This growth was partially offset by a 24% reduction in reinsurance, mainly driven by the already announced portfolio restructuring actions we have taken in the International Property segment. On the topic of renewals, only 7% of our business renews in April and we experienced similar trends as the January 1st renewals. Speaker 300:14:49We experienced positive rate increases with an average rate change at around 6% across our portfolio, mainly driven by around 15% rate increases in the International Property segment. As part of the remediation of the international property cat book, we continued exiting business that did not meet our price requirements. In addition to rate strengthening, we continue to see the same improvement we experienced for the January 1 renewals in contractual terms and conditions across most classes as well including restatement provisions and tightening of exclusions and coverage. Slide 9 shows the change in combined ratio versus Q1 'twenty two for our core business and breaks the movements into individual subcomponents. Our portfolio actions are yielding positive results as the combined ratio for our core business on a like for like basis has improved by 2.5 percentage points. Speaker 300:15:49Our headline core of 80.5% has benefited from 16 points of reserve releases linked to the LPG transaction. However, the expense reallocation of $10,000,000 has been a 2 point drag. Adjusting for these two results in a like for like core of 95% versus 97.5% last year. Looking at the combined ratio for the segments and excluding the loss portfolio transfer, the reinsurance combined ratio was stable versus The prior period, while the insurance and services combined ratio was down 0.5 point to 95%. Attritional loss ratio improved for both reinsurance and insurance services. Speaker 300:16:34Moving on to the investment portfolio and investment results on Slides 10 and 11 respectively. We have made progress as we delivered a strong investment result, increased our overall asset duration to 2.1 years from 1.8 years and locked in attractive reinvestment yields in excess of 4% on our investments. We have invested over $500,000,000 this quarter and around $1,000,000,000 year to date and increased our exposure to corporates and asset backed securities. Overall, our investment strategy remains unchanged and focused on maintaining a high quality fixed income portfolio. 70% of our portfolio is now fixed income, of which 93% is investment grade. Speaker 300:17:19The average rating of our fixed income book is AA, which is 9% of the securities being BBB and 7% being below investment grade non rated fixed income instruments. Given the quality of our portfolio, we believe we are well positioned going into market turbulence. We are monitoring our exposures and proactively making changes to our investment portfolio. We have no direct exposures to SVB, Signature Bank, First Republic Bank and other small regional banks or any AT1 instrument exposure to Credit Suisse in our investment portfolio. Even from the underwriting side, our exposure to SPB, Signature Bank and First Republic, including the D and O book is less than $5,000,000 As I've already highlighted, net investment income for the quarter was $62,000,000 versus $8,000,000 last year, while the overall investment result was $74,000,000 versus a loss of $205,000,000 in the Q1 of 'twenty 2. Speaker 300:18:23P and L volatility was lower in Q1 and we expect our actions to designate new fixed income investments as available for sale will help us going forward. At quarter end, more than 70% of the fixed income portfolio was designated as available for sale and that will continue to grow in 2023 as we continue to rebalance the fixed income portfolio reducing volatility. Slide 12 looks at our balance sheet. Our balance sheet is strong, ending the quarter with $2,200,000,000 of shareholders' equity, up from $2,100,000,000 since year end 2022. Total capital including debt was $3,000,000,000 while tangible book value per diluted share with $11.41 Our Bermuda solvency capital ratio was strong and improved to 2 70% at year end 2022. Speaker 300:19:16We expect it to further improve by more than 15 points post the completion of the loss portfolio transfer. Also, Our issued debt is unchanged, while our debt to capital ratio reduced to 25.8% from 27.3% at year end 2022 and is within our target range. With this, we conclude the financial section of our presentation. I would like to remind you again we had a good start to 2023 and are in a good position to deal with market volatility. While 2024 should be the year in which we realize full run rate benefits of all of our strategic actions and we expect to deliver a double digit return on average common equity. Speaker 300:19:59I would like to thank you again for your time this morning. For any questions, please contact our Investor Relations team at investor. Relations at siriuspt.com. With this, I'll turn the call back over to the operator. Speaker 100:20:15Thank you. The conference is now concluded. Operator00:20:18Thank you for attending today's presentation. 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There are 4 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Gentlemen, and welcome to SiriusPoint Limited First Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. During today's presentation, all parties will be in listen only mode. As a reminder, Mr. And Chief Strategy Officer of SiriusPoint. Please go ahead now, sir. Speaker 100:00:26For the 2023 Q1 results. Last night, we issued our earnings press release and financial supplement, which are both available on our website, www.sariuspt.com. Additionally, a webcast presentation will coincide with today's discussion and is available on our website. With me here today are Scott Egan, our Chief Executive Officer and Steve Yendel, our Chief Financial Officer. Before we start, I would like to remind you that today's remarks contain forward looking statements based on management's current expectations. Speaker 100:01:07Actual results may differ. Please refer to Page 2 of our investor presentation for additional information and the company's latest public filings. At this point, I will turn the call over to Scott. Speaker 200:01:23Thank you, Drew, and good morning, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining our Q1 results call. We have been busy executing against our strategic priorities, which I outlined as part of our full year 2022 results. I intend to provide you with a fuller update on our progress against these our half year results update, But today, I will highlight the significant progress we have made during this quarter. Before we get into the results, I would like to update on 2 areas. Speaker 200:01:55Firstly, we are extremely pleased to announce today the appointment of Bronick Masajadda is an independent director to our Board. Ronik is a proven industry leader with over 30 years of insurance experience, which will further strengthen our Board. We look forward to welcoming him to the company. Secondly, turning to the 13D filing by Dan Loeb, as an update, the SiriusPoint Board of Directors has established a special committee of independent directors to review any acquisition proposal made by Mr. Loeb if and when a proposal is received. Speaker 200:02:32In connection with forming the special committee, the Board agreed that it would not move forward with any transaction unless it is first approved by the committee. I'd like to remind everyone that there is no assurance that any definitive agreement will be executed with Mr. Loeb or any other party or that a proposal or any other transaction will be approved or consummated. Now I will turn to our results and I will share some of the key messages from the last quarter. These are outlined on Slide 5 and provide an update on our strong progress across our strategic initiatives. Speaker 200:03:14Overall, we are pleased to report Continuing performance improvement in Q1 as we build on the progress made in Q3 and Q4 of last year. To put this in perspective, this is the first time we have delivered a quarterly profit since Q2 of 2021. Importantly, we have seen positive capital generation across all parts of our business, underwriting, MGAs and investment returns. Culture is an important part of the improvement journey and at Citi's point, we are focused on creating a performance culture that rewards underwriting performance and aligns closely with shareholder value creation. To that end, in our recent proxy statement released in April, we have made changes to the annual incentive plan for 2023. Speaker 200:04:10This sets out clearly that the target bonus will only be paid if the combined ratio for the continued operations is 95.7%. Therefore, you should take from that, this is the combined ratio management is targeting in 20 23 ex our loss portfolio transfer benefits and as of Q1, we are on track, but we also recognize there are 3 more quarters to go. This level of combined ratio would be a significant improvement compared to 2022. It also includes a switch of significant expenses from net corporate and other expenses to be within the combined ratio. We believe the significant change to structure and target levels closely aligns with shareholder value creation and most importantly indicates a step change in overall performance levels. Speaker 200:05:11Turning more specifically to our underwriting result for quarter 1, we delivered the combined ratio of 80.5%. This was supported by significant reserve releases. However, importantly, our combined ratio will be 2.5 points better year on year Excluding these releases and expense reallocations to combined ratio from outside of the underwriting result, We have also seen improvements in the attritional loss ratio. In addition, despite the high level of reserve for leases in the quarter, Our balance sheet is strong as we continue to maintain our prudent and conservative approach to reserve MIM. Investment results have also been strong this quarter and on a run rate basis in line to meet our full year guidance previously communicated. Speaker 200:06:06Our capital light fee income from our 5 consolidated MGAs is growing strongly year on year and are an important and efficient contributor to our profits. So, in summary, a strong performance from all key areas of our business, but of course with room to improve further. Our diluted book value per share grew very strongly by 9% to $12.31 during the quarter. This, as a reminder, doesn't fully reflect the value of our 5 consolidated MGAs, which are held at only $91,000,000 As of March 31, 2023, despite having a net service fee income of $36,000,000 in 2022 and a plan to grow in 2023 as demonstrated by our Q1 numbers. As I said before, These are underappreciated in our current book value. Speaker 200:07:03In summary, our focus on execution is high. It has to be. These set of results begin to show the evidence of this work. Our ambition is To keep the execution momentum and focus high as we see significant room for performance improvement over the next 2 to 3 years. Our aim and we expect it to close at the end of Q2 subject to regulatory approval. Speaker 200:07:29This remains on track. Today, we are also sharing new details on the split of reserves and the substantial capital release we expect as a result of this deal. The loss portfolio transfer covers around $1,300,000,000 of reserves, 76% and 24% respectively, and include lines of business, which we have already exited. It is also very attractive financially. We expect to release more than $150,000,000 of capital, which gives us future capital flexibility, further strengthening an already strong balance sheet. Speaker 200:08:13We will set out our thinking on this during the second half of this year. In addition, the financial benefits this deal provides finality to the portfolio we have exited in 2022 and aligns our balance sheet to the go forward strategy. Regarding our MGA portfolio, as it remains fewer and deeper investments, which align strongly with being more focused. During the quarter, we sold our equity stake in distinguished programs for $7,500,000 and released around $4,000,000 of capital, whilst also agreeing a multi year program to provide capacity. We are also committed Growing and strengthening specific MGA relationships are demonstrated by our recently announced renewal of our partnership with Arcadian, one of our 5 consolidated MGAs through to 2026. Speaker 200:09:15We wrote about $290,000,000 Gross written premiums with our KPN last year, which was a 35% growth on the prior year. Onto our balance sheet, which we further strengthened during the quarter. We continue to operate the company against the AA rating requirement under the S and Our efforts to improve performance are getting noticed and we have recently seen an upgrade on our ratings to stable from negative by Fitch. A. M. Speaker 200:09:46Best has also reaffirmed our unit solvency capital ratio is strong and has also improved to 217% at Q4 2022 versus 194% at Q3 2022 and we expect it to further improve by more than 15 points at the time of closing the loss portfolio transfer. Our debt to capital ratio fell by 1.5 percentage points during Q1 to around 26% as we benefited from the growth in book value. Our balance sheet is strong and we will explore more ways to optimize our capital structure. I would like to conclude by saying that it has been a busy quarter, but we are proud of the results we have posted. With each quarter, We aim to build confidence as we deliver on our plans. Speaker 200:10:41We are on track with the guidance we have given with the aim to do better if we can. Quarter 1 is a good start, but there is no room for complacency. We have a lot more to do, I am confident that we are on our way to becoming a less volatile, high performing specialist insurer. I look forward to continuing to share our progress against our plans and targets during the year. With these remarks, I will pass it over to Steve, who will take you through the Q1 financials. Speaker 300:11:15Thank you, Scott, and good morning, good afternoon, everyone. I will now take you through the financial section of the presentation and we'll start with Slide 7, looking at our Q1 financials for 2023. Overall, it was a positive quarter as we delivered profits and generated capital across all three sources of earnings, underwriting, MGA Fee Income and Investments. Net income for the quarter was up $356,000,000 versus Q1 of last year. Our results or mainly impacted by losses in the investment portfolio in 2022. Speaker 300:11:51During Q1, 2023, core underwriting results improved materially as we delivered underwriting profits of $107,000,000 which benefited from $90,000,000 of reserve redundancy linked to the LPT transaction. Excluding that $90,000,000 release, underwriting profits were $70,000,000 with a core ex LPT at 96.8%. Our actions are having an impact as attritional loss ratios and expenses were down, while our cat losses were stable versus prior year. We experienced $7,000,000 of cat losses in the quarter, which are primarily related to Turkey earthquake claims and are stable year on year. Gross premium written for the core business increased 5%, driven by insurance and services, up $181,000,000 partially offset by reinsurance down $128,000,000 while capital light net services fee income saw a steady increase at $18,000,000 versus $14,000,000 last year. Speaker 300:12:56Service revenues were up 12%, while margins are better at around 29%. Total investment result was $74,000,000 driven by $62,000,000 of net investment income, while unrealized and realized gains, including related party, for $12,000,000 and significantly higher than the $213,000,000 loss last year. These results Illustrate the progress we've made in rebalancing the investment portfolio towards high quality fixed income assets to reduce P and L volatility and capitalize on the current high interest rate environment. Net corporate and other expenses were down $16,000,000 and mainly driven as we move $10,000,000 of expenses above the line within our core results. Other notable items impacting income include $7,000,000 of restructuring costs and cost and $25,000,000 of negative mark to market from liability classified instruments. Speaker 300:13:59Moving on to Slide 8, we focus on the premium trends and I'll also provide an update on the April 1 renewals. Gross premiums for the core segment were up 5% quarter over quarter, mainly driven by the 37% growth in insurance and services. The growth in premiums is driven by organic growth in both strategic partnerships and across our access and health lines. This growth was partially offset by a 24% reduction in reinsurance, mainly driven by the already announced portfolio restructuring actions we have taken in the International Property segment. On the topic of renewals, only 7% of our business renews in April and we experienced similar trends as the January 1st renewals. Speaker 300:14:49We experienced positive rate increases with an average rate change at around 6% across our portfolio, mainly driven by around 15% rate increases in the International Property segment. As part of the remediation of the international property cat book, we continued exiting business that did not meet our price requirements. In addition to rate strengthening, we continue to see the same improvement we experienced for the January 1 renewals in contractual terms and conditions across most classes as well including restatement provisions and tightening of exclusions and coverage. Slide 9 shows the change in combined ratio versus Q1 'twenty two for our core business and breaks the movements into individual subcomponents. Our portfolio actions are yielding positive results as the combined ratio for our core business on a like for like basis has improved by 2.5 percentage points. Speaker 300:15:49Our headline core of 80.5% has benefited from 16 points of reserve releases linked to the LPG transaction. However, the expense reallocation of $10,000,000 has been a 2 point drag. Adjusting for these two results in a like for like core of 95% versus 97.5% last year. Looking at the combined ratio for the segments and excluding the loss portfolio transfer, the reinsurance combined ratio was stable versus The prior period, while the insurance and services combined ratio was down 0.5 point to 95%. Attritional loss ratio improved for both reinsurance and insurance services. Speaker 300:16:34Moving on to the investment portfolio and investment results on Slides 10 and 11 respectively. We have made progress as we delivered a strong investment result, increased our overall asset duration to 2.1 years from 1.8 years and locked in attractive reinvestment yields in excess of 4% on our investments. We have invested over $500,000,000 this quarter and around $1,000,000,000 year to date and increased our exposure to corporates and asset backed securities. Overall, our investment strategy remains unchanged and focused on maintaining a high quality fixed income portfolio. 70% of our portfolio is now fixed income, of which 93% is investment grade. Speaker 300:17:19The average rating of our fixed income book is AA, which is 9% of the securities being BBB and 7% being below investment grade non rated fixed income instruments. Given the quality of our portfolio, we believe we are well positioned going into market turbulence. We are monitoring our exposures and proactively making changes to our investment portfolio. We have no direct exposures to SVB, Signature Bank, First Republic Bank and other small regional banks or any AT1 instrument exposure to Credit Suisse in our investment portfolio. Even from the underwriting side, our exposure to SPB, Signature Bank and First Republic, including the D and O book is less than $5,000,000 As I've already highlighted, net investment income for the quarter was $62,000,000 versus $8,000,000 last year, while the overall investment result was $74,000,000 versus a loss of $205,000,000 in the Q1 of 'twenty 2. Speaker 300:18:23P and L volatility was lower in Q1 and we expect our actions to designate new fixed income investments as available for sale will help us going forward. At quarter end, more than 70% of the fixed income portfolio was designated as available for sale and that will continue to grow in 2023 as we continue to rebalance the fixed income portfolio reducing volatility. Slide 12 looks at our balance sheet. Our balance sheet is strong, ending the quarter with $2,200,000,000 of shareholders' equity, up from $2,100,000,000 since year end 2022. Total capital including debt was $3,000,000,000 while tangible book value per diluted share with $11.41 Our Bermuda solvency capital ratio was strong and improved to 2 70% at year end 2022. Speaker 300:19:16We expect it to further improve by more than 15 points post the completion of the loss portfolio transfer. Also, Our issued debt is unchanged, while our debt to capital ratio reduced to 25.8% from 27.3% at year end 2022 and is within our target range. With this, we conclude the financial section of our presentation. I would like to remind you again we had a good start to 2023 and are in a good position to deal with market volatility. While 2024 should be the year in which we realize full run rate benefits of all of our strategic actions and we expect to deliver a double digit return on average common equity. Speaker 300:19:59I would like to thank you again for your time this morning. For any questions, please contact our Investor Relations team at investor. Relations at siriuspt.com. With this, I'll turn the call back over to the operator. Speaker 100:20:15Thank you. The conference is now concluded. Operator00:20:18Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.Read morePowered by