Fidelis Insurance Announces Q2 2025 Results
Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2025.
Dan Burrows, Group Chief Executive Officer of Fidelis Insurance Group, commented: “We have continued to successfully execute on our strategy of balancing the pursuit of profitable underwriting opportunities with returning meaningful capital to shareholders.
“Year-to-date, we grew gross premiums written by 9%, reflecting our focus on targeted deployment of capacity into areas of higher margin in what remains a favorable trading environment. Our exposure to the Russia-Ukraine lessor policy aviation litigation is now firmly behind us, and with any remaining exposure being insignificant, we can now draw a line under this event. Excluding the impact of this litigation, we would be outperforming our through-the-cycle targets with a combined ratio in the mid-70s for the quarter and significantly surpassing our ROAE target.
“With our recently announced expansion of our capital management initiatives, including the $200 million renewal of our share repurchase program and increase in our quarterly dividend to $0.15 per share, we have enhanced flexibility to capitalize on the considerable dislocation in our current share price. By coupling our capital management initiatives with our continued ability to take advantage of accretive growth opportunities and optimize reinsurance purchases, we are confident we will continue delivering attractive returns for our shareholders.”
Second Quarter 2025 Consolidated Results
- Net income for the second quarter of 2025 was $19.7 million, or $0.18 per diluted common share. Operating net income was $13.6 million, or $0.12 per diluted common share, which includes adverse prior year development in our Aviation & Aerospace line of business related to the Ukraine Conflict, including the judgment handed down by the English High Court.
- Underwriting loss for the second quarter of 2025 was $20.6 million and the combined ratio was 103.7%, compared to underwriting income of $36.7 million and a combined ratio of 92.7% for the second quarter of 2024.
- Net adverse prior year loss reserve development for the second quarter of 2025 was $89.2 million, compared to $68.6 million of favorable prior year loss reserve development in the prior year period.
- Catastrophe and large losses for the second quarter of 2025 were $74.3 million compared to $181.2 million in 2 the prior year period.
- Net investment income for the second quarter of 2025 was $44.6 million compared to $46.0 million in the prior year period.
- Net realized and unrealized investment gains for the second quarter of 2025 were $6.7 million, which included $4.5 million of net unrealized gains on other investments, as result of our strategic deployment of assets into a diversified hedge fund portfolio at the end of 2024.
- Annualized Operating ROAE of 2.3% in the quarter compared to 10.0% in the prior year period.
Half Year 2025 Consolidated Results
- Net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2025, was $22.8 million, or $[0.21] per diluted common share. Operating net loss was $31.6 million, or $[0.29] per diluted common share, which includes adverse prior year development in our Aviation & Aerospace line of business related to the Ukraine Conflict, including the judgment handed down by the English High Court, and losses from the California wildfires.
- Underwriting loss for the six months ended June 30, 2025, was $115.1 million and the combined ratio was 110.1%, compared to underwriting income of $105.9 million and a combined ratio of 89.3% for the six months ended June 30, 2024.
- Catastrophe and large losses for the six months ended June 30, 2025, were $407.6 million compared to $284.2 million in the prior year period.
- Net adverse prior year loss reserve development of $48.4 million compared to net favorable development of $135.6 million in the prior year period.
- Net investment income of $94.1 million compared to $87.0 million in the prior year period. Purchased $0.9 billion of fixed income securities at an average yield of 4.7% and sold $1.3 billion of fixed maturity securities at an average yield of 4.6%. At June 30, 2025, the book yield of the fixed income portfolio was 5.0%.
- Net realized and unrealized investment gains for the six months ended June 30, 2025 were $12.6 million, which included $5.6 million of net unrealized gains on other investments, as result of our strategic deployment of assets into a diversified hedge fund portfolio at the end of 2024.
- Annualized Operating ROAE of [2.6]% in the six months ended June 30, 2025, compared to 12.1% in the prior year period.
Book value per diluted common share was $22.04 at June 30, 2025 [dilutive shares at June 30, 2025 of 540,393], compared to $21.79 at December 31, 2024.
