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About Aspen
Group Structure
Our Business
Our Financial Strength
Our Listings
Our Executive Committee
Office Locations
About Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited

About Aspen

Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited is a Bermuda holding company. We attract clients from all over the world seeking flexible solutions to a wide variety of risks.

Group Structure

Property Reinsurance	Casualty Reinsurance	International Insurance	US Insurance
Property Reinsurance (London) (Bermuda) (Connecticut) (Zurich)	International Casualty Reinsurance (London)	Aviation Insurance (London)	E&S Casualty Insurance (Atlanta)
US Facultative Reinsurance (Illinois)	US Casualty Reinsurance (London) (Connecticut)	Management and Technology Liability Insurance (London)	E&S Property Insurance (Atlanta)
Structured Risk (Bermuda)	US Casualty Facultative Reinsurance (Connecticut)	Financial Institutions (London)
Credit, Bond and Political Risk Reinsurance (Zurich)		Financial and Political Risk (London)
		Global Excess Casualty (Dublin, Bermuda)
		Marine, Energy and Liability Insurance (London)
		Professional Liability (London)
		Specialty Reinsurance (London)
		UK Commercial Property Insurance (London)
		UK/Eire Commercial Liability Insurance (London)
		International Property Facultative (London) (Paris) (Singapore)

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Our Business

The Aspen Group is a major reinsurance and insurance provider to clients worldwide. We provide property and casualty reinsurance in the global market, as well as property and liability insurance principally in the UK and US, and specialty insurance and reinsurance worldwide, consisting mainly of marine and energy and aviation. We seek to differentiate ourselves by providing our customers with innovative and customised solutions to complex risks.

Aspen Insurance UK Limited was established in London in June 2002 to serve the needs of the London and wider UK insurance market. It is the largest business in the Aspen Group. The company trades under the names of Aspen Insurance and Aspen Re, writing a range of specialty insurance and reinsurance lines respectively.

Aspen Insurance Limited, trading as Aspen Re, was established in Bermuda in November 2002 to access this increasingly important market. Licensed as a Class 4 insurer, it writes a significant book of property treaty reinsurance and structured risk solutions.

Aspen Specialty Insurance Company, trading as Aspen Specialty, was acquired in September 2003 and writes a focused book of property and casualty surplus lines insurance business, principally through the US wholesale surplus lines broker network. In August 2004, Aspen Specialty also opened offices in Georgia and Arizona.

Aspen Re America, Inc, trading as Aspen Re, offers both domestic property reinsurance capabilities and casualty facultative reinsurance expertise. Property business protecting US cedents and buyers on a treaty and excess of loss basis is written on behalf of Aspen Insurance UK Limited out of our Connecticut office which was established in January 2004. Casualty facultative reinsurance business is written through reinsurance intermediaries on behalf of Aspen Re by our New Jersey office, established in January 2004. It also writes property facultative business through our Illinois office, which opened in January 2005. 

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Our Financial Strength

Strong ratings are an important driver for our business and Aspen has been awarded the following ratings from the major ratings agencies:

Aspen Insurance UK Limited	Aspen Insurance Limited	Aspen Specialty Insurance Company
A (Strong) Standard & Poor's	A (Strong) Standard & Poor's	A (Excellent) A. M. Best
A (Excellent) A. M. Best	A (Excellent) A. M. Best
A2 (Good) Moody's	A2 (Good) Moody's

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Our Listings

We listed in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on December 4, 2003
Our ticker symbol is AHL.

We have a secondary listing on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX).
Our ticker symbol is AHL BH.

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Our Executive Committee

Chris O'Kane		Group CEO
Julian Cusack		Group Chief Risk Officer, Chairman & CEO AIL   (Bermuda)
Richard Houghton		Group Chief Financial Officer
Brian Boornazian		CEO, Aspen Re
Michael Cain		Group General Counsel
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James Few		Managing Director, Aspen Re and Head of Property Reinsurance
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Karen Green		President and Chief Operating Officer, AIUK and Aspen Managing Agency Limited Group Head of Corporate Development
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Emil Issavi		Executive Vice President, Aspen Re
Bill Murray		President, US Insurance
Stephen Postlewhite		Group Head of Risk Capital
Kate Vacher		Director of Underwriting
Chris Woodman		Group Head of Human Resources and Marketing
Rupert Villers		CEO, Aspen Insurance

         

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Office Locations

Alamo, CA
Atlanta, GA
Bermuda
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
Dublin
Johns Creek, GA
London
Manhattan Beach, CA
New York
Paris
Pasadena, CA
Rocky Hill, CT
Scottsdale, AZ
Singapore
Zurich

About Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited

Aspen provides reinsurance and insurance coverage to clients in various domestic and global markets through wholly-owned subsidiaries and offices in Bermuda, France, Ireland, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. For the three months ended June 30, 2009, Aspen reported gross written premiums of $534.3 million, net income of $110.4 million and total assets of $8.0 billion. Its operating subsidiaries have been assigned a rating of "A" ("Strong") by Standard & Poor's, an "A" ("Excellent") by A.M. Best and an "A2" ("Good") by Moody's Investors Service. For more information about Aspen, please visit www.aspen.bm.