Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: FSR) celebrates its fifth
anniversary.
Flagstone, set up in the wake of the market dislocation caused by
Hurricane’s Katrina, Rita, and Wilma in 2005, began in Bermuda in
December 2005 with $550 million in capital and has since grown to over
$1.45 billion in underwriting capital and wrote $988.5 million of
premiums in 2009.
"We have worked hard since 2005 building a platform to produce quality
underwriting opportunities from around the globe,” said David Brown,
founder and chief executive officer of Flagstone Re. "We now have
offices in 12 countries and more than 450 employees. We have come a long
way in five years and are very pleased with the business we have built.
"Our success is based on the talent and hard work of our staff, the
service we offer clients, and the underwriting discipline we continue to
maintain. Our agility in being able to adapt to changing market
conditions and the strong financial performance we have shown in the
past five years are testament to the fact that we have established
ourselves as a premier global short-tail reinsurer.”
Building on this early success, Flagstone has continued to develop a
professional team of experts known for their depth of knowledge and
comprehensive risk modeling and analysis, in addition to award-winning
client service.
Flagstone has been the recipient of several awards since inception
including being voted Reinsurance Company of the Year by the Review’s
Worldwide Reinsurance Awards for 2010.
About Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings, S.A.
Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings, S.A., through its operating
subsidiaries, is a global reinsurance and insurance company that employs
a focused and technical approach to the Property Catastrophe, Property,
and Specialty reinsurance and insurance businesses.
The Company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol
"FSR" and the Bermuda Stock Exchange under the symbol "FSR BH".
Additional financial information and other items of interest are
available at the Company's website located at http://www.flagstonere.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This report may contain, and the Company may from time to time make,
written or oral "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the
U.S. federal securities laws, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All
forward-looking statements rely on a number of assumptions concerning
future events and are subject to a number of uncertainties and other
factors, many of which are outside the Company's control, which could
cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. In
particular, statements using words such as "may", "should", "estimate",
"expect", "anticipate", "intend", "believe", "predict", "potential", or
words of similar import generally involve forward-looking statements.
Important events and uncertainties that could cause the actual results
to differ include, but are not necessarily limited to: market conditions
affecting the Company's common share price; the possibility of severe or
unanticipated losses from natural or man-made catastrophes; the
effectiveness of our loss limitation methods; our dependence on
principal employees; the cyclical nature of the reinsurance business;
the levels of new and renewal business achieved; opportunities to
increase writings in our core property and specialty reinsurance and
insurance lines of business and in specific areas of the casualty
reinsurance market; the sensitivity of our business to financial
strength ratings established by independent rating agencies; the
estimates reported by cedents and brokers on pro-rata contracts and
certain excess of loss contracts where the deposit premium is not
specified in the contract; the inherent uncertainties of establishing
reserves for loss and loss adjustment expenses, our reliance on industry
loss estimates and those generated by modeling techniques; unanticipated
adjustments to premium estimates; changes in the availability, cost or
quality of reinsurance or retrocessional coverage; changes in general
economic conditions; changes in governmental regulation or tax laws in
the jurisdictions where we conduct business; the amount and timing of
reinsurance recoverables and reimbursements we actually receive from our
reinsurers; the overall level of competition, and the related demand and
supply dynamics in our markets relating to growing capital levels in the
reinsurance industry; declining demand due to increased retentions by
cedents and other factors; the impact of terrorist activities on the
economy; and rating agency policies and practices.
These and other events that could cause actual results to differ are
discussed in more detail from time to time in our filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation
to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as
a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as
required by U.S. federal securities laws. Readers are cautioned not to
place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak
only as of the date on which they are made.
