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2016 Annual Report & Accounts
2016 Annual Report & Accounts.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 4485Z Hiscox Ltd 14 March 2017 \n\nHiscox Ltd\n(the 'Company')\n2016 Annual Report\nHamilton, Bermuda - in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.1 a copy of the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016 has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do\nA copy can also be viewed on the Company's web site: www.hiscoxgroup.com/investors \nInformation required under Disclosure and Transparency Rule 6.3.5- Extracts from the 2016 Annual Report\nThis announcement should be read in conjunction with the Company's preliminary results announcement issued on 27 February 2017. Together, these announcements constitute the material required by DTR 6.3.5 to be communicated to the media in full unedited text through a Regulatory Information Service. This material is not a substitute for reading the Company's 2016 Annual Report. \nDirectors' responsibilities statement\n \nThe Board is responsible for ensuring the maintenance of proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the Company. It is required to ensure that the financial statements present a fair view for each financial period. The Directors explain in the Annual Report their responsibility for preparing the Annual Report and Accounts.\n \nWe confirm that to the best of our knowledge:\n- the financial statements, prepared in accordance with the applicable set of accounting standards, present fairly, in all material respects, the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the Company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole; and\n- the management report includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the Company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that they face.\n \nThe Directors responsible for authorising the responsibility statement on behalf of the Board are the Chairman, Robert Childs, and the Chief Financial Officer, Hamayou Akbar Hussain. The statements were approved for issue on 27 February 2017.\n \nThe Directors consider that the Annual Report and Accounts, ta...