Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd
For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Mar 7, 2024.
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FY2023 · Filed Mar 7, 2024
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| EY Bermuda Ltd. 3 Bermudiana RoadHamilton HM 08,Bermuda P.O. Box 463Hamilton HM BX, Bermuda | Direct tel: +1 441 295 7000 Direct fax: +1 441 295 5193 ey.com |
The Shareholders and the Board of Directors
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd. (the Company) as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss), shareholders’ equity and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2023, December 31, 2022 and November 30, 2021, and for the one month period ended December 31, 2021, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2023, December 31, 2022 and November 30, 2021, and for the one month period ended December 31, 2021, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
| Valuation of Losses Incurred but not Reported | |
| Description of the Matter | As disclosed in Notes 2 and 9 of the consolidated financial statements, reserves for losses and loss adjustment expenses includes reserves for unpaid reported losses (Case reserves) and for losses incurred but not reported (IBNR reserves). At December 31, 2023, IBNR reserves represented a significant portion of the $3,030 million of reserves for losses and loss adjustment expenses. There is significant uncertainty inherent in determining management’s estimate of ultimate losses and loss expenses associated with IBNR reserves. Management estimates its IBNR reserves exposure for large loss events based upon discussions with brokers and cedants, use of proprietary loss modelling and pricing software, estimate of market loss and market share and experience from historical large events. IBNR reserves for attritional losses are established using actuarial loss reserving techniques. These techniques include the loss development factor method, Bornheutter Ferguson method, the Initial Expected Loss Ratio method, and other techniques. These techniques rely on estimates of paid and reported loss development patterns and estimates of the loss ratio at the inception of the contract. The Company’s actuaries may use other approaches in addition to those described and supplement these methods with judgment depending upon the characteristics of the class of business and available data. Inherent in the estimates of ultimate losses and loss expenses are expected trends in claim severity and frequency, the expected duration of the respective claims development period, inadequacies in the data provided by industry participants, the potential for further reporting lags, significant uncertainty as it relates to legal issues under the relevant terms of insurance and reinsurance contracts and other factors, which may vary significantly as claims are settled. Auditing management’s estimate for IBNR reserves was complex and required the involvement of our actuarial specialists due to the high degree of subjectivity inherent in management’s methods and assumptions used in the calculations which have a significant effect on the valuation of IBNR reserves. |
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| How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit | We obtained an understanding of the estimation process for IBNR reserves. This included, among others, understanding management’s process over the actuarial methods and assumptions selected to determine their recorded estimate. To test IBNR reserves, our procedures included, among others, the involvement of actuarial specialists to assist with the evaluation of the Company’s selection of significant actuarial methods and assumptions used in their analysis and a comparison of those methods used in prior periods and those used in the industry. We independently calculated a range of reasonable reserve estimates including performing independent projections and compared the range of reserve estimates to the Company’s recorded loss and loss adjustment expense reserve. |
/s/Ernst & Young Ltd
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2013.
Hamilton, Bermuda
March 7, 2024
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