Beazley Plc · LSE:BEZ

Beazley — H1 2021 Earnings Presentation

31 slides from Beazley's earnings presentation, Jul 23, 2021

  1. Slide 1: Results for the six months ended 30 June 2021

    Results for the six months ended 30 June 2021 Friday, 23 July 2021 (updated 26 July 2021)

  2. Slide 2: Disclaimer notice

    Disclaimer notice Certain statements made in this presentation, both oral and written, are or may constitute “forward looking statements” with respect to the operation, performance and financial condition of the Company and/or the Group. These forward looking statements are not based on historical f

  3. Slide 3: Contents

    Contents • Results overview 4-5 • Financials 6-14 o Performance 8 o Investments 9-10 o Claims releases 11 o Reserves 12 o Cumulative rate change 13 o Capital position 14 • In Focus - Cyber 15-24 • The Outlook 25-26 • Strategy 27 • Questions 28 • Appendices 29-31 3

  4. Slide 4: Overview

    Overview TeaZley.

  5. Slide 5: Results Summary

    Results Summary • Profit before tax $167.3m (2020: Loss of $13.8m) • Return on equity of 15% (2020: -1%) • Gross premiums written increased by 22% to $2,035.3m (2020: $1,663.9m) • Combined ratio of 94% (2020: 107%) • Rate increase of 20% on renewal portfolio (2020: increase of 11%) • Our first party

  6. Slide 6: Financials

    Financials 6

  7. Slide 7: Financials

    Financials • Prior year reserve releases of $95.7m (2020: $58.6m) • Net investment income of $83.6m (2020: $83.2m) • Capital remains within preferred range at 23% (2020: 23%) 7

  8. Slide 8: Financial performance

    Financial performance 6 months ended 6 months ended 30 June 2021 30 June 2020 % movement Gross premiums written ($m) 2,035.3 1,663.9 22% Net premiums written ($m) 1,442.1 1,317.8 9% Net earned premiums ($m) 1,390.2 1,233.8 14% (Loss)/Profit before income tax ($m) 167.3 (13.8) Claims ratio 57% 71% Ex

  9. Slide 9: Investment portfolio: continued prudent investment approach

    Continued prudent investment approach 60% 50% 48% 41% 40% 37% Investment portfolio 30% 28% 20% 10% 7% 6% 6% 5% 4% 4% 3% 3% 3% 3% 1% 1% 0% Sovereign Debt Investment Grade Hedge Funds Cash and Cash High Yield Debt Equities Illiquid Credit Other Debt Equivalents Assets 2020 HY 2021 9

  10. Slide 10: Capital growth assets drive strong investment return

    Capital growth assets drive strong investment return 300.0 7.0% 6.0% 250.0 93.4 5.0% 200.0 4.0% 150.0 104.1 3.0% 58.9 100.0 170.3 2.0% 30.4 50.0 14.1 79.4 84.0 82.6 1.0% 62.7 33.1 43.5 0.0 8.0 0.0% 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 1st half 2nd half Annualised Return 10

  11. Slide 11: Underwriting action continues to benefit reserve releases

    Underwriting action continues to benefit reserve releases 220 12.0% 200 11.0% 180 10.0% 160 9.0% 8.0% 140 7.0% 120 6.0% % of NEP 100 5.0% $m 80 4.0% 60 3.0% 40 2.0% 20 1.0% 0 0.0% -20 -1.0% -40 -2.0% -60 -3.0% 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2020HY 2021HY CyEx Marine PAC Property Reinsurance Spec

  12. Slide 12: Consistent prudent reserving approach continues

    Consistent prudent reserving approach continues Surplus in net held reserves 10.0% % above actuarial estimate 8.2% 8.2% 8.2% 7.9% 7.5% 7.4% 7.4% 6.9% 7.1% 6.7% 6.7% 6.6% 6.8% 6.6% 6.4% 6.3% 6.1% 5.6% 5.0% 5.0% 0.0% 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

  13. Slide 13: Cumulative rate change since 2016

    Cumulative rate change since 2016 180% 175% 170% 165% 160% 155% 150% Rate Change 145% 140% 135% 130% 125% 120% 115% 110% 105% 100% 95% 90% 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021HY Underwriting Year Marine Property Speciality lines CyEx Reinsurance PAC Market facilities All divisions 13

  14. Slide 14: Capital position remains strong and within preferred range

    Capital position remains strong and within preferred range • Group capital requirement: Projected Year ended 31 Dec 2021 31 Dec 2020 $m $m Lloyd’s economic capital requirement (ECR)* 2,221.0 2,116.5 Capital for US insurance company 259.7 246.3 2,480.7 2,362.8 • We expect to be at 23% above Lloyd’s E

  15. Slide 15: In focus Cyber

    In focus Cyber 15

  16. Slide 16: Timeline

    Timeline 2009 2013 2011 2007 Yahoo data breach impacting 2003 Heartland, the fifth-biggest In rapid succession, data all 3 billion users. TJX Co. announce in SEC payments processor in the on 77 million Sony Yahoo later fined $35m California data security filing that more than 45 U.S., suffers major

  17. Slide 17: Timeline

    Timeline 2018 2017 Marriott data breach. 2020 Marriott fined $23.8m by 2015 the UK Information 2021 Equifax data breach - one California Consumer Commissioner’s Office Privacy Act goes into effect OPM data breach – largest of the largest cybercrimes Colonial pipeline US government data related to id

  18. Slide 18: Changing threat landscape - how are we responding?

    Changing threat landscape - how are we responding? • Ransomware underwriting global approach: o 5 key pillars  Data and analytics  Ransomware application: Follows cyber kill chain  Vulnerability scanning  Limits Management: Targeted approach  Rates: Building the runway • Supporting underwriters

  19. Slide 19: Beazley Cyber Ecosystem

    Beazley Cyber Ecosystem 19

  20. Slide 20: Risk Management Services, Data & Threat Intelligence

    New offering Existing Data & Threat Intelligence Risk Management Services Education Targeted Education: Automated Beazley Prevention rather than cure Vulnerability Claims Notification Data Insurance, reimagined Process Expansion e.g.Phishing Targeted Email Lodestone Inhouse Education Templates Threa

  21. Slide 21: Changing threat landscape - impact of our response so far

    Changing threat landscape - Impact of our response so far Early trend analysis since October 2020 shows: • 20% ransomware frequency reduction per policy • 50% ransomware frequency reduction per premium • Increasing rates, less exposure 21

  22. Slide 22: Increased Premium, Reduced Exposure

    Increased Premium, Reduced Exposure 800.0 700.0 600.0 GWP (USD$m) 500.0 400.0 300.0 200.0 100.0 0.0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Forecast Tech E&O BBR InfoSec Vector Policy count 22

  23. Slide 23: Cyber exposure management

    Cyber exposure management Attritional vs Systemic cyber risk Attritional Systemic Management of systemic Reinsurance • Data breach • Cloud outage • Risk appetite and • Systemic catastrophe • Ransomware • Supply chain attacks realistic disaster cover (Ransomware) scenarios • Aggregate cover • Malicio

  24. Slide 24: Cyber positioning

    Cyber positioning • We understand how to manage our exposure and we understand the market • We have developed an appropriate culture and process to enable smart underwriting which allows us to make the right risk selection/ design the make up of our book • We have developed and refined an evolving r

  25. Slide 25: The outlook

    The outlook AUN AF

  26. Slide 26: Outlook

    Outlook • Market conditions and rate continue in our favour • We expect growth to be in the mid 20’s for the full year with net growth in the mid teens • Our combined ratio guidance is unchanged at low 90s • Investment yield on core portfolio 0.5% as at 30th June • We remain focussed on achieving di

  27. Slide 27: Strategy

    Strategy 27

  28. Slide 28: Questions

    Questions 28

  29. Slide 29: Appendices

    Appendices 29

  30. Slide 30: Performance by division

    Performance by division Six months ended 30 June 2021 Cyber & Market Specialty Marine PAC Property Reinsurance Executive Risk Facilities Lines Gross premiums written ($m) 548.8 194.1 88.8 154.8 276.6 161.5 610.7 Net premiums written ($m) 405.3 162.9 23.1 126.8 151.2 94.9 477.9 Result from operating

  31. Slide 31: Beazley approach to capital

    Beazley approach to capital • We primarily present the Lloyd’s Economic capital requirement (ECR) chosen as it is the most stringent regulatory capital measure, alongside our US capital requirement for BICI • The ECR is the only measure we have a target surplus range for – this is an internally pref

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