GREENLIGHT CAPITAL RE, LTD.
For the period ended Sep 30, 2025. Filed Nov 3, 2025.
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Sep 30, 2025 · Filed Nov 3, 2025
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Open Market Segment
Results for the Open Market segment were as follows:
| Three months ended September 30 · Nine months ended September 30 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 · % Change · 2024 · 2025 · % Change · 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Gross premiums written | $154,994 | 3.1% | $150,331 | $528,036 | 9.8% | $480,703 | ||||||
| Net premiums written | $140,372 | 9.5% | $128,238 | $478,092 | 11.8% | $427,539 | ||||||
| Net premiums earned | $144,427 | 14.1% | $126,577 | $434,622 | 13.2% | $384,052 | ||||||
| Net loss and LAE incurred | (76,590) | (76,177) | (272,828) | (236,280) | ||||||||
| Acquisition costs | (40,069) | (38,223) | (121,850) | (112,313) | ||||||||
| Other underwriting expenses | (5,446) | (4,871) | (15,104) | (15,165) | ||||||||
| Deposit interest expense, net | (94) | (377) | (367) | (1,020) | ||||||||
| Underwriting income | 22,228 | 6,929 | 24,473 | 19,274 | ||||||||
| Net investment income | 5,623 | (39.9)% | 9,360 | 17,023 | (46.4)% | 31,758 | ||||||
| Income before income taxes | $27,851 | $16,289 | $41,496 | $51,032 | ||||||||
| Underwriting ratios: | 2025 | % Point Change | 2024 | 2025 | % Point Change | 2024 | ||||||
| Loss ratio | 53.0% | (7.2) | 60.2% | 62.8% | 1.3 | 61.5% | ||||||
| Acquisition cost ratio | 27.7% | (2.5) | 30.2% | 28.0% | (1.2) | 29.2% | ||||||
| Composite ratio | 80.7% | (9.7) | 90.4% | 90.8% | 0.1 | 90.7% | ||||||
| Underwriting expenses ratio | 3.8% | (0.3) | 4.1% | 3.6% | (0.6) | 4.2% | ||||||
| Combined ratio | 84.5% | (10.0) | 94.5% | 94.4% | (0.5) | 94.9% | ||||||
Gross Premiums Written
Gross premiums written by line of business were as follows:
| Three months ended September 30 · Nine months ended September 30 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 · 2024 · Change · 2025 · 2024 · Change | ||||||||||
| Casualty | $12,404 | 8% | $24,372 | 16% | $(11,968) | $62,136 | 12% | $70,863 | 15% | $(8,727) |
| Financial | 19,741 | 13% | 12,342 | 8% | 7,399 | 60,221 | 11% | 47,711 | 10% | 12,510 |
| Health | 18 | —% | (2) | —% | 20 | 227 | —% | 213 | —% | 14 |
| Multiline | 58,032 | 37% | 51,666 | 34% | 6,366 | 177,108 | 34% | 143,549 | 30% | 33,559 |
| Property | 23,365 | 15% | 18,440 | 12% | 4,925 | 71,459 | 14% | 69,748 | 15% | 1,711 |
| Specialty | 41,434 | 27% | 43,513 | 29% | (2,079) | 156,885 | 30% | 148,619 | 31% | 8,266 |
| Total | $154,994 | 100% | $150,331 | 100% | $4,663 | $528,036 | 100% | $480,703 | 100% | $47,333 |
Gross premiums written within our Open Market segment in Q3 2025 increased by $4.7 million or 3.1%, compared to Q3 2024. The increase was predominantly attributable to the following lines of business:
Financial: The $7.4 million, or 59.9%, increase was mainly due to the reporting of additional premiums from previous treaty years in our mortgage business, along with new quota share financial business.
Multiline: The $6.4 million, or 12.3%, increase was driven mostly by growth in our current FAL business bound during Q1 2025, partially offset by downward revision to our estimated ultimate gross premiums for certain 2023 and 2024 FAL treaties. This was partially offset by non-renewed business in our commercial auto class and multiline commercial class.
Property: The $4.9 million, or 26.7%, increase was mainly due to new non-proportional business and growth from existing quota share treaties.
Casualty: The $12.0 million, or 49.1%, decrease was mainly due to the non-renewal of certain reinsurance programs in our general liability class and multiline casualty class as part of our strategy to reduce our exposure to the casualty line of business.
Specialty: The $2.1 million, or 4.8%, decrease was mainly attributable to the $10.1 million change in premiums related to a quota share reinsurance multiline program. This decrease in Q3 2025 was partially offset by growth from 2024 quota share reinsurance treaties and new excess of loss treaties in our aviation class, in addition to new business and increased participation on contracts in our whole account marine and energy (M&E) class.
Gross premiums written within our Open Market segment in YTD 2025 increased by $47.3 million or 9.8%, compared to YTD 2024. The increase was predominantly attributable to the following lines of business:
Multiline: The $33.6 million, or 23.4%, increase was driven by the same factors noted for Q3 2025, coupled with growth from new construction and engineering business.
Financial: The $12.5 million, or 26.2%, increase was driven by the same factors noted for Q3 2025, coupled with growth from new excess of loss surety business.
Specialty: The $8.3 million, or 5.6%, increase was mainly driven by the growth highlighted for Q3 2025. This was partially offset by the change in premiums associated with the quota share reinsurance multiline program noted for Q3 2025 and non-renewed business in our war, political violence, and terrorism (WPVT) class. Additionally, we made a downward revision in our estimated premium on a cyber treaty bound in 2023.
Casualty: The $8.7 million, or 12.3%, decrease was mainly due to the same explanation as noted for Q3 2025.
Net Premiums Written
Ceded premiums written in Q3 2025 was $14.6 million, resulting in net premiums written of $140.4 million, compared to $22.1 million and $128.2 million, respectively, in Q3 2024. The decrease in ceded premiums written of 33.8% was driven by the reduced quota share retrocession activity within our specialty multiline business due to lower estimated inward premiums.
Ceded premiums written in YTD 2025 was $49.9 million, resulting in net premiums written of $478.1 million, compared to $53.2 million and $427.5 million, respectively, in YTD 2024. The decrease in ceded premiums written of 6.1% was driven by reduced quota share retrocessional activity within our specialty multiline and property business due to lower inward premiums. This was partially offset mainly by additional excess of loss retrocessional coverage to manage our overall exposure to aviation, marine and energy risks within our specialty line.
Net Premiums Earned
Net premiums earned by line of business were as follows:
| Three months ended September 30 · Nine months ended September 30 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 · 2024 · Change · 2025 · 2024 · Change | ||||||||||
| Casualty | $20,055 | 14% | $21,781 | 17% | $(1,726) | $72,078 | 17% | $66,718 | 14% | $5,360 |
| Financial | 17,351 | 12% | 14,212 | 11% | 3,139 | 46,972 | 11% | 45,520 | 9% | 1,452 |
| Health | 75 | —% | 50 | —% | 25 | 163 | —% | 158 | —% | 5 |
| Multiline | 52,909 | 37% | 49,694 | 39% | 3,215 | 152,271 | 35% | 149,212 | 31% | 3,059 |
| Property | 15,738 | 11% | 11,682 | 9% | 4,056 | 48,047 | 11% | 36,308 | 8% | 11,739 |
| Specialty | 38,299 | 27% | 29,158 | 23% | 9,141 | 115,091 | 26% | 86,136 | 18% | 28,955 |
| Total | $144,427 | 100% | $126,577 | 100% | $17,850 | $434,622 | 100% | $384,052 | 100% | $50,570 |
Net premiums earned within our Open Market segment in Q3 2025 increased by $17.9 million or 14.1%, compared to Q3 2024 and by $50.6 million or 13.2% for YTD 2025, compared to YTD 2024. The change is influenced by the amount and timing of net premiums written during the current year and prior years, coupled with the business mix written in the form of excess of loss versus proportional contracts. Additionally, within the financial line and certain specialty line classes, the gross premiums written for some treaties are earned over multiple years, corresponding with the anticipated risk coverage period.
Loss ratio
The components of the loss ratio for our Open Market segment were as follows:
| Three months ended September 30 | Nine months ended September 30 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | % Point Change | 2024 | 2025 | % Point Change | 2024 | |
| Current year: | ||||||
| Attritional loss ratio | 48.5% | (8.3) | 56.8% | 52.5% | (2.8) | 55.3% |
| Large event loss ratio | 4.0% | 2.4 | 1.6% | 2.9% | 0.3 | 2.6% |
| CAT event loss ratio | —% | (5.9) | 5.9% | 6.2% | 1.6 | 4.6% |
| Current year loss ratio | 52.5% | (11.8) | 64.3% | 61.6% | (0.9) | 62.5% |
| Prior year reserve development ratio | 0.6% | 4.8 | (4.2)% | 1.1% | 2.1 | (1.0)% |
| Loss ratio | 53.1% | (7.0) | 60.1% | 62.8% | 1.2 | 61.5% |
Current Year Loss Ratio
Q3 2025 vs Q3 2024
The Q3 2025 current year loss ratio decreased by 11.8 percentage points to 52.5%, compared to Q3 2024, driven mainly by improved attritional loss ratio and no CAT event losses and partially offset by an increase in large event losses.
The significant improvement in our attritional loss ratio was predominantly driven by lower volume of expected claims in our aviation, energy, marine, and whole account marine and energy classes within our specialty line of business. This was partially offset by an increase in attritional loss ratio in our financial lines class in response to poor performance relating to our transactional liability business.
During Q3 2025, we were notified of three large event losses for a total of $5.7 million in our specialty and property lines; whereas we incurred one large event loss of $2.1 million in our property line during Q3 2024.
In Q3 2024, we incurred CAT losses of $7.5 million relating to Hurricane Helene.
YTD 2025 vs YTD 2024
The YTD 2025 current year loss ratio decreased by 0.9 percentage points to 61.6%, compared to YTD 2024, predominantly due to improved attritional loss ratio, offset partially by an increase in CAT loss ratio and, to a lesser extent, large event loss ratio.
The reduction in attritional loss ratio for YTD 2025 compared to YTD 2024 is predominantly due to the same trends noted for Q3 2025.
For YTD 2025, we incurred $27.0 million of CAT losses relating to the California wildfires, compared to $17.5 million of CAT losses, net of reinsurance, in YTD 2024 due to the Baltimore bridge loss and Hurricane Helene.
Prior Year Reserve Development Ratio
The Open Market segment’s prior year adverse reserve development contributed 0.6 percentage points and 1.1 percentage points to the loss ratio for Q3 2025 and YTD 2025, respectively. For Q3 2024 and YTD 2024, the prior year favorable reserve development for the Open Market segment resulted in a decrease to the loss ratio by 4.2 percentage points and 1.0 percentage points, respectively. Refer to Note 7 Loss and LAE Reserves to the condensed consolidated financial statements for further details.
Acquisition cost ratio
The acquisition cost ratio decreased by 2.5 points in Q3 2025 compared to Q3 2024, primarily due to the change in business mix, coupled with an improved acquisition cost ratio for our financial and multiline business. This was partially offset by an increase in acquisition cost ratio for our specialty line, predominantly driven by growth in quota share reinsurance treaties at higher acquisition cost ratio than for excess of loss treaties.
The key drivers for the improved acquisition cost ratio relating to the financial and multiline lines of business were:
Financial: Driven by our transactional liability business due to lower profit commission as a result of adverse loss reserve development in the current quarter. Additionally, the acquisition cost ratio for the mortgage business was higher in Q3 2024 due to an increase in profit commission on prior years’ treaties.
Multiline: Driven predominantly from lower acquisition costs reported on our FAL business.
The acquisition cost ratio decreased by 1.2 points in YTD 2025 compared to YTD 2024, predominantly due to the change in business mix, along with improved acquisition cost ratio for our financial business for the same reason as noted in Q3 2025. This partially was offset by the increase in acquisition cost ratio in our specialty line for same reason as noted in Q3 2025.
Underwriting expense ratio
The underwriting expense ratio decreased by 0.3 points to 3.8% in Q3 2025 compared to Q3 2024, mainly due to an increase in net premiums earned in the Open Market segment, partially offset by an increase in incentive compensation expense based on the company’s stronger consolidated underwriting results.
The underwriting expense ratio decreased by 0.6 points to 3.6% in YTD 2025 compared to YTD 2024, for the same reason as for Q3 2025, coupled with lower stock compensation expense attributable to the Open Market segment.
Net investment income
For the Open Markets segment, net investment income declined by 39.9% to $5.6 million in Q3 2025, compared to Q3 2024, and by 46.4% to $17.0 million for YTD 2025, compared YTD 2024.
The decrease for both periods was predominantly due to lower investment income on funds withheld by third party Lloyd’s syndicates and lower interest income earned from restricted cash and cash equivalents mainly as a result of the interest rate cuts by central banks during the second half of 2024.
Income (loss) before income taxes
Income before income taxes for the Open Market segment was $27.9 million for Q3 2025, compared to $16.3 million for Q3 2024. The increase was driven predominantly by improved underwriting results and partially offset by lower net investment income.
Income before income taxes for the Open Market segment was $41.5 million for YTD 2025, compared to $51.0 million for YTD 2024. The decrease was predominantly attributable to the lower net investment income and partially offset by improved underwriting results.
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