Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited provides insurance and reinsurance solutions. The company consist of Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited (‘FIHL’), Fidelis Insurance Bermuda Limited (‘FIBL’), Fidelis Underwriting Limited (‘FUL’) and Fidelis Insurance Ireland DAC (‘FIID’) and has its own service company, FIHL (UK) Services Limited, with a branch in Ireland.
Fidelis’ principal operating subsidiaries are:
Fidelis Insurance Bermuda Limited (‘FIBL’) is a Class 4 Bermuda domiciled company which wri...
Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited provides insurance and reinsurance solutions. The company consist of Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited (‘FIHL’), Fidelis Insurance Bermuda Limited (‘FIBL’), Fidelis Underwriting Limited (‘FUL’) and Fidelis Insurance Ireland DAC (‘FIID’) and has its own service company, FIHL (UK) Services Limited, with a branch in Ireland.
Fidelis’ principal operating subsidiaries are:
Fidelis Insurance Bermuda Limited (‘FIBL’) is a Class 4 Bermuda domiciled company which writes most of the Group’s reinsurance business, as well as writing insurance. FIBL is regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority.
Fidelis Underwriting Limited (‘FUL’) is a U.K. domiciled company which principally writes insurance, as well as reinsurance. FUL is regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority (‘PRA’) and the Financial Conduct Authority (‘FCA’).
Fidelis Insurance Ireland DAC (‘FIID’) is a Republic of Ireland domiciled company that writes insurance and reinsurance within the European Economic Area. FIID is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland (‘CBI’).
FIHL (UK) Services Limited (‘FSL’) is a U.K. service company that also has a branch in Ireland.
Investments
As of December 31, 2024, the company’s investments consisted primarily of a diversified portfolio of high-quality fixed maturity securities (including U.S. Treasuries, non-U.S. government bonds, government agency bonds, corporate bonds, investment-grade emerging market debt, mortgage and other asset-backed securities) and small allocations to sub-investment grade fixed maturity securities and ‘other investments.’ The assets in the company’s fixed maturity portfolio are managed primarily by external investment managers through individual investment management agreements. The company monitors the activity and performance of these external managers and its other investments regularly.
Business Segments
The company operates through Insurance and Reinsurance segments.
The Insurance segment consist of a portfolio of Property, Marine, Asset Backed Finance & Portfolio Credit, Aviation and Aerospace, Political Risk, Violence & Terror, Energy, Cyber, and Other Insurance risks.
The Reinsurance segment is primarily a residential property catastrophe book, which includes Property and Retro & Whole Account reinsurance.
Insurance
The Insurance segment consist of a portfolio of specialty risks. In addition to major specialty lines of business, this segment includes highly tailored products, where the buying motivation is often driven by regulatory capital relief, capital efficiency or transaction facilitation. The Insurance segment benefits from quota share, aggregate, stop loss and excess of loss retrocessional cover and industry loss warranties, which help to reduce volatility. The company’s Insurance segment provides it with access to capital-efficient business and facilitates diversification of the company’s exposures. The following are the lines of business in its Insurance segment:
Property provides cover for all risks of direct physical loss or damage, business interruption and natural catastrophe perils. The portfolio covers a wide range of occupancies from real estate portfolios, municipalities, infrastructure, schools, commercial and manufacturing accounts and construction risks. The company writes a mix of global, North American and individual international territory risks.
Marine provides cover for a range of exposures on a global basis including marine hull, marine cargo, construction and marine war.
Asset Backed Finance & Portfolio Credit includes asset-backed nonpayment, economically linked risk (e-cat), mortgage indemnity, structured credit, and surety. Drivers for specific risk transfer for these products are often different from traditional insurance procurement and include regulatory capital relief, capital efficiency and transaction facilitation.
Aviation & Aerospace provides a range of cover for owners and financiers of aircraft including airline hull and liability ‘all-risks’, contingent aviation, AV52 war liability and hull war as well as product liability for the world’s leading manufacturers. The company also covers pre-launch, transit and launch risk for satellite manufacturers and operators in its Aerospace book.
Energy provides cover for a range of exposures across the energy spectrum. This includes construction and operational renewable energy projects globally, operational downstream energy/power & utilities, and construction and operational upstream energy.
Political Risk, Violence & Terror provides insurance products for clients, such as banks, commodity traders, corporations and multilateral and export credit agencies through political risk and contract frustration/non-payment coverages and both damage and non-damage cover from perils including terrorism, civil unrest, strikes, riots, civil commotion and sabotage through political violence and terror covers.
Cyber products reimburse damages and financial losses arising from accidental or malicious incidents affecting a business’s computer networks, software and data, both on a first- and third-party basis. The company writes a diverse mix of business from SME to large corporate, across a number of geographies, predominantly on a reinsurance basis.
Other Insurance includes contingency providing coverage for event cancellation, non-appearance and other contingencies, title insurance, warranty insurance and other specialty risks.
Reinsurance
The company’s Reinsurance segment consists of an actively managed, property reinsurance book, providing reinsurance and a limited amount of retrocession coverage worldwide on a proportional or excess of loss basis. The portfolio is global, with a significant concentration in North America. Additionally, it includes smaller exposures in other regions around the world, particularly in Japan, Europe, and Australasia.
The Reinsurance segment benefits from quota share, aggregate, stop loss and excess of loss retrocessional cover, catastrophe bond cover and industry loss warranties, which helps to minimize the potential net losses in the business written. The company’s strategy of pursuing closely controlled aggregates and focusing on residential portfolios in the Reinsurance segment helps keep volatility lower than a typical catastrophe book.
Business Distribution
The company’s business is produced principally through brokers and (re)insurance intermediaries. The brokerage distribution channel provides it with access to an efficient, global distribution system without the significant time and expense which would be otherwise incurred in creating wholly owned distribution networks. The brokers and reinsurance intermediaries typically act in the interest of insureds, ceding clients or insurers and are instrumental to the company’s continued relationship with its clients.
Regulatory Matters
FIBL, a wholly owned subsidiary of FIHL, is registered as a Class 4 insurer pursuant to the Insurance Act. As a Class 4 insurer, FIBL is required to file with the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) a statutory financial return no later than four months after its financial year end (unless specifically extended with the approval of the BMA). FIHL and FIBL must comply with Bermuda’s Personal Information Protection Act 2016 (‘PIPA’), which came into full force on January 1, 2025.
Fidelis and The Fidelis Partnership contain several firms that are authorized to carry on regulated activities in the U.K. FUL is authorized by the PRA to effect and carry out contracts of insurance in respect of a number of classes of general (non-life) insurance business. In relation to The Fidelis Partnership, Pine Walk Capital Limited (‘Pine Walk Capital’) and Pine Walk Europe SRL (‘Pine Walk Europe’) (a Belgian-incorporated entity with a branch in the UK) are both authorized and regulated by the FCA as insurance intermediaries.
FUL, as a U.K.-authorized insurer, is subject to the U.K.’s domestic prudential regime, which derives from Solvency II, although it has recently undergone a number of changes that took effect on December 31, 2024. The U.K. largely transposed Solvency II into U.K. law by FSMA 2000 and The Solvency 2 Regulations 2015.
The most prominent ‘material outsourcing’ rules that apply to FUL are set out in the PRA’s supervisory statements, ‘Outsourcing and third-party risk management’ (SS2/21) and ‘Operational resilience: Impact tolerances for important business services’ (SS1/21), and corresponding rules are contained in the ‘Conditions Governing Business’ and ‘Insurance – Operational Resilience’ Parts of the PRA Rulebook. FUL and FIHL (UK) Services Limited, as well as The Fidelis Partnership subsidiaries on whom the company rely, must comply with all applicable data privacy legislation, including the E.U. GDPR and the U.K. GDPR (together, the ‘GDPR’).
The company’s Irish-authorized firm, FIID, is an insurance company incorporated under the laws of Ireland and duly authorized by the CBI as an insurance undertaking to carry on the following classes of non-life insurance business in accordance with the 2015 Regulations: 5 (Aircraft), 6 (Ships), 7 (Goods in Transit), 8 (Fire and Natural Forces), 9 (Other Damage to Property), 11 (Aircraft Liability), 12 (Liability for Ships), 13 (General Liability), 14 (Credit), 15 (Suretyship), and 16 (Miscellaneous Financial Loss).
The Fidelis Partnership includes Pine Walk Europe, is authorized by the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority to conduct insurance distribution activities. Pine Walk Europe carries on insurance distribution activities in Ireland through an Irish-registered branch pursuant to the ‘passporting rights.’ Pine Walk Europe received regulatory approval from the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority to perform regulated insurance distribution activities on October 5, 2022, and was able to commence trading in Ireland on a freedom of establishment basis via its Irish branch on January 1, 2023.
FIID is required to meet economic risk-based solvency requirements under Solvency II (as transposed into Irish law by the 2015 Regulations). FIID and Pine Walk Europe must comply with the GDPR, which took effect in May 2018.
The U.K. and Bermuda are among the approved ‘qualified jurisdictions’ which allow U.S. states that has adopted the Amended Credit for Reinsurance Model Act to implement reduced collateral requirements with respect to reinsurers domiciled in Bermuda and the U.K., such as FIBL and FUL.
History
Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited was founded in 2015. The company was incorporated under the laws of Bermuda in 2014.