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How ACGL rewrote its risk factors

10-K ITEM 1A · FY2024 → FY2025

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Risks Relating to Our Industry, Business and Operations • We operate in a highly competitive environment, and we may not be able to compete successfully in our industry. • The insurance and reinsurance industry is highly cyclical, and we may at times experience periods characterized by excess underwriting capacity and unfavorable premium rates. • The effects of inflation, trade and tariff disputes and other economic conditions impact the insurance and reinsurance industry in ways which may negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations. • Claims for natural catastrophic events could cause large losses and substantial volatility in our results of operations and could have a material adverse effect on our financial position and results of operations. • The impact of climate change will affect our loss limitation methods, such as the purchase of third party reinsurance and catastrophe risk modeling and risk selection in ways which may adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations. • Our insurance, reinsurance and mortgage subsidiaries are subject to supervision and regulation.
Changes to existing regulation and supervisory standards, or failure to comply with applicable requirements, could adversely affect our business and results of operations. • We are subject to ongoing legal and policy actions around climate change which may result in additional requirements that could prompt us to shift our risk selection and business strategy in ways which may adversely impact our results of operations. • Sanctions imposed by the U.S., U.K. and EU on Russia and Russia-related businesses have impacted certain sectors in which we write business. • Certain U.S. policies and actions have created geopolitical risks which are not possible to manage or predict, some of which may result in uncertainty in the global markets. • Our customers and policyholders may also be impacted by regulatory, technological, market or other risks relating to climate change in ways which we cannot predict with certainty and adversely impact our results of operations. • We are subject to changes in governmental, investor and societal responses to climate change and sustainability-related issues, which may result in scrutiny of our business, litigation or adverse impacts to our share price and our results of operations. • We could face unanticipated losses from increased geopolitical tensions, hostilities, war, terrorism, cyber attacks and general political instability, and these or other unanticipated losses could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. • Underwriting risks and reserving for losses are based on probabilities and related modeling, which are subject to inherent uncertainties. • The failure of any of the loss limitation methods we employ could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations. • The availability of reinsurance, retrocessional coverage and capital market transactions to limit our exposure to risks may be limited, and counterparty credit and other risks associated with our reinsurance arrangements may result in losses which could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. • We could be materially adversely affected to the extent that important third parties with whom we do business do not adequately or appropriately manage their risks, commit fraud or otherwise breach obligations owed to us. • Emerging claim and coverage issues may adversely affect our business. • Acquisitions, the addition of new lines of insurance or reinsurance business, expansion into new geographic regions and/or entering into joint ventures or partnerships expose us to risks.
ARCH CAPITAL 46 • Our information technology systems and our pace of adoption of new technologies, including AI, may not be adequate to meet the demands of our customers or impact negatively our ability to compete with our peers. • Technology failures caused by intentional and unintentional human and non-human actions may cause material disruption in the availability of the information technology systems we use in our business. • We could be materially impacted by a cyber attack, data breach, ransomware, phishing, social engineering or other cybersecurity incident resulting in loss of business data, personal data and other confidential or secret information, a disruption in our business operations, regulatory or other legal action, and fines. • Changes in criteria used by rating agencies which may result in a downgrade in our ratings, our inability to obtain a rating or a change in capital allocation or requirements for our operating insurance and reinsurance subsidiaries may adversely affect our relationships with clients and brokers and negatively impact sales of our products. • Our ability to execute our business strategy successfully, continue to grow and innovate and offer our employees a dynamic and supportive workplace depends on the recruitment, retention and promotion of talented, agile, and resilient employees at all levels of our organization. • Our success will depend on our ability to maintain and enhance effective operating procedures and internal controls and our ERM program. • We are exposed to credit risk in certain of our business operations. • Our business is subject to laws and regulations relating to economic trade sanctions and foreign bribery laws, the violation of which could adversely affect our operations.
Risks Relating to Financial Markets and Investment s • Adverse developments in the financial markets could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial position and our businesses, and may also limit our access to capital; our policyholders, reinsurers and retrocessionaires may also be affected by such developments, which could adversely affect their ability to meet their obligations to us. • Disruption to the financial markets and weak economic conditions resulting from situations such as supply/demand imbalances, inflation and political unrest may adversely and materially impact our investments, financial condition and results of operation. • Foreign currency exchange rate fluctuation may adversely affect our financial results. • The determination of the amount of current expected credit losses (“CECL”) allowances taken on our investments is highly subjective and could materially impact our results of operations or financial position. • Our reinsurance subsidiaries may be required to provide collateral to ceding companies, by applicable regulators, their contracts or other commercial considerations.
Risks Relating to Our Mortgage Operations • The ultimate performance of our mortgage insurance portfolios remains uncertain. • If the volume of low down payment mortgage originations declines, or if other government housing policies, practices or regulations change, the amount of mortgage insurance we write in the U.S. or Australia could decline, which would reduce our mortgage insurance revenues. • Changes to the role of the GSEs in the U.S. housing market or to GSE eligibility requirements for mortgage insurers or to the GSEs’ use of CRT could negatively impact our results of operations and financial condition or reduce our operating flexibility. • The implementation of the Basel III Capital Accord and FHFA’s Enterprise Regulatory Capital Framework may adversely affect the use of mortgage insurance and SRT and CRT opportunities.
Risks Relating to Our Company • Some of the provisions of our bye-laws and our shareholders agreement may have the effect of hindering, delaying or preventing third party takeovers or changes in management initiated by shareholders.
Risks Relating to Taxation • We are subject to increased taxation in Bermuda as a result of the Bermuda CIT Act, effective January 1, 2025 and may become subject to increased taxation in other countries as a result of the implementation of the OECD's plan on “Base Erosion and Profit Shifting.” ARCH CAPITAL 47 Risks Relating to Our Industry, Business and Operations We operate in a highly competitive environment, and we may not be able to compete successfully in our industry.
Continued increases in the supply of insurance and reinsurance may have consequences for us, including fewer contracts written, lower New Insurance Written (“NIW”), lower premium rates, increased expenses for customer acquisition and retention, and less favorable policy terms and conditions.
The effects of inflation, trade and tariff disputes and other economic conditions impact the insurance and reinsurance industry in ways which may negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
While our business has not been directly impacted by the existing and proposed Trump administration tariffs on imported goods, there may be a ripple effect on how these impact certain industries where we provide insurance or reinsurance.
It is too early to determine the long-term effect, if any, of the Trump administration tariff policy, but sustained escalation of tariffs and trade disputes may result in a global economic slowdown which impacts us and our clients.
ARCH CAPITAL 48 Claims for natural catastrophic events could cause large losses and substantial volatility in our results of operations and could have a material adverse effect on our financial position and results of operations.
We have large aggregate exposures to natural catastrophic events.
Natural catastrophes can be caused by various events, including hurricanes, floods, wildfires, tsunamis, windstorms, earthquakes, hailstorms, tornadoes, severe winter weather, fires, droughts and other natural disasters.
We attempt to manage our exposure to these risks relating to climate change through the use of underwriting controls, proprietary and third party risk models, and the purchase of third party reinsurance.
As a result, the occurrence of one or more catastrophic events and the ARCH CAPITAL 49 continuation and worsening of recent trends could have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.
Our insurance, reinsurance and mortgage subsidiaries are subject to supervision and regulation.
Local and regulatory authorities also may seek to exercise their supervisory or enforcement authority in new or more extensive ways, such as imposing increased capital requirements or limiting or impeding the oversight that we are able to exercise over our subsidiaries.
Additionally, it is possible that requirements or guidance under one jurisdiction may be contradictory or divergent from requirements or guidance in other jurisdictions where we operate.
Examples include disclosure requirements relating to climate change and sustainability.
Regulatory fragmentation could affect the competitive market, how we are regulated and the way we conduct our business and manage our capital and could result in lower revenues and higher costs.
Governments, regulators, legislators and influential non-governmental organizations (“NGOs”) continue to develop laws, regulations and other requirements related to climate change.
Regulatory and shareholder scrutiny of potential “greenwashing” also continues.
We are subject to these evolving and often unpredictable requirements and policy debates, which are difficult to forecast or quantify and may adversely affect our business.
Legislative or regulatory actions, as well as court decisions following major catastrophes, could require broader insurance coverage or otherwise negatively impact our operations.
In addition, climate‑related regulatory changes or our own strategic responses to climate risks could increase our operating costs or reduce premiums in certain business lines.
We are subject to CSRD and other EU and U.K. climate‑related disclosure regulations, which require more extensive reporting than current U.S. rules.
Proposed changes by the European Commission may further affect our obligations.
We cannot predict how these or other evolving sustainability requirements across our jurisdictions will impact our operations, customers or shareholders.
Our efforts to address these risks rely on loss‑mitigation measures, risk modeling, operating results and engagement with customers and shareholders.
We continue to monitor industry and geographic developments, and our Board regularly considers these exposures.
Although we may take strategic actions in response to legal and policy changes, there is no assurance these actions will fully address the risks or avoid material adverse effects on our results, financial condition or share price.
ARCH CAPITAL 50 Sanctions imposed by the U.S., U.K. and EU on Russia and Russia-related businesses have impacted certain sectors in which we write business.
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine hostilities have created disruptions in certain sectors of the global economy.
The prolonged war has impacted the global energy sector and resulted in general increase in risks worldwide.
Additionally, certain lines of business we write have been impacted by sanctions, such as the marine and energy lines of business, although the extent of the impact will depend on the outcome of the war in Ukraine and the nature of future sanctions packages.
Certain U.S. policies and actions have created geopolitical risks which are not possible to manage or predict, some of which may result in uncertainty in the global markets.
Recent U.S. policies and actions, such as actions relating to Venezuela and Greenland, may jeopardize certain global alliances and create geopolitical uncertainty.
While the long-term impact of these policies is currently unknown, these policies and other geopolitical tensions have resulted in, or could result in, volatile global capital markets, sanctions, trade restrictions and harm countries’ relationships.
Shareholders, investors and regulators have historically focused on climate and sustainability matters, leading to evolving and sometimes conflicting expectations and standards.

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Risks Relating to Our Industry, Business and Operations • We operate in a highly competitive environment. • The insurance and reinsurance industry is highly cyclical, and we may at times experience periods characterized by excess underwriting capacity and unfavorable premium rates.
ARCH CAPITAL 43 • The effects of inflation, trade and tariff disputes and global recessionary and other economic conditions impact the insurance and reinsurance industry in ways which may negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations. • Claims for natural and man-made catastrophic events could cause large losses and substantial volatility in our results of operations and could have a material adverse effect on our financial position and results of operations. • The impact of climate change will affect our loss limitation methods, such as the purchase of third party reinsurance and catastrophe risk modeling and risk selection in ways which may adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations. • Our insurance and reinsurance subsidiaries are subject to supervision and regulation.
Changes to existing regulation and supervisory standards, or failure to comply with applicable requirements, could adversely affect our business and results of operations. • We are subject to ongoing legal and policy actions around climate change which may result in additional requirements that could prompt us to shift our risk selection and business strategy in ways which may adversely impact our results of operations. • The imposition of sanctions by the U.S., U.K. and EU on Russia and Russia-related businesses has impacted certain sectors in which we write business. • Our customers and policyholders may also be impacted by regulatory, technological, market or other risks relating to climate change in ways which we cannot predict with certainty and adversely impact our results of operations. • We are subject to changes in governmental, investor and societal responses to climate change and sustainability-related issues, which may result in scrutiny of our business, litigation or adverse impacts to our share price and our results of operations. • We could face unanticipated losses from increased geopolitical tensions, hostilities, war, terrorism, cyber attacks and general political instability, and these or other unanticipated losses could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. • Underwriting risks and reserving for losses are based on probabilities and related modeling, which are subject to inherent uncertainties. • The failure of any of the loss limitation methods we employ could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations. • The availability of reinsurance, retrocessional coverage and capital market transactions to limit our exposure to risks may be limited, and counterparty credit and other risks associated with our reinsurance arrangements may result in losses which could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. • We could be materially adversely affected to the extent that important third parties with whom we do business do not adequately or appropriately manage their risks, commit fraud or otherwise breach obligations owed to us. • Emerging claim and coverage issues may adversely affect our business. • Acquisitions, the addition of new lines of insurance or reinsurance business, expansion into new geographic regions and/or entering into joint ventures or partnerships expose us to risks. • Our information technology systems and our pace of adoption of new technologies, such as generative AI, may not be adequate to meet the demands of our customers or impact negatively our ability to compete with our peers. • Technology failures caused by intentional and unintentional human and non-human actions may cause material disruption in the availability of the information technology systems we use in our business. • We could be materially impacted by a cyber attack, data breach, ransomware, phishing, social engineering or other cybersecurity incident resulting in loss of business data, personal data and other confidential or secret information, a disruption in our business operations, regulatory or other legal action, and fines. • Changes in criteria used by rating agencies which may result in a downgrade in our ratings, our inability to obtain a rating or a change in capital allocation or requirements for our operating insurance and reinsurance subsidiaries may adversely affect our relationships with clients and brokers and negatively impact sales of our products. • Our ability to execute our business strategy successfully, continue to grow and innovate and offer our employees a dynamic and supportive workplace depends on the recruitment, retention and promotion of talented, agile, and resilient employees at all levels of our organization. • Our success will depend on our ability to maintain and enhance effective operating procedures and internal controls and our ERM program. • We are exposed to credit risk in certain of our business operations. • Our business is subject to laws and regulations relating to economic trade sanctions and foreign bribery laws, the violation of which could adversely affect our operations.
ARCH CAPITAL 44 Risks Relating to Financial Markets and Investment s • Adverse developments in the financial markets could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial position and our businesses, and may also limit our access to capital; our policyholders, reinsurers and retrocessionaires may also be affected by such developments, which could adversely affect their ability to meet their obligations to us. • Disruption to the financial markets and weak economic conditions resulting from situations such as supply/demand imbalances, inflation and political unrest may adversely and materially impact our investments, financial condition and results of operation. • Foreign currency exchange rate fluctuation may adversely affect our financial results. • The determination of the amount of current expected credit losses (“CECL”) allowances taken on our investments is highly subjective and could materially impact our results of operations or financial position. • Our reinsurance subsidiaries may be required to provide collateral to ceding companies, by applicable regulators, their contracts or other commercial considerations.
Risks Relating to Our Mortgage Operations • The ultimate performance of our mortgage insurance portfolios remains uncertain. • If the volume of low down payment mortgage originations declines, or if other government housing policies, practices or regulations change, the amount of mortgage insurance we write in the U.S. or Australia could decline, which would reduce our mortgage insurance revenues. • Changes to the role of the GSEs in the U.S. housing market or to GSE eligibility requirements for mortgage insurers or to the GSEs’ use of CRT could negatively impact our results of operations and financial condition or reduce our operating flexibility. • The implementation of the Basel III Capital Accord and Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”)’s Enterprise Regulator Capital Framework may adversely affect the use of mortgage insurance and CRT opportunities.
Risk Relating to Our Company • Some of the provisions of our bye-laws and our shareholders agreement may have the effect of hindering, delaying or preventing third party takeovers or changes in management initiated by shareholders.
Risks Relating to Taxation • We and our non-U.S. subsidiaries may become subject to U.S. federal income taxation and/or the U.S. federal income tax liabilities of our U.S. subsidiaries may increase, including as a result of changes in tax law. • The continuing implementation of the Tax Cuts Act may have a material and adverse impact on our operations and financial condition. • Proposed Treasury Regulations issued on January 24, 2022, if finalized in their current form, could (on prospective basis) cause our U.S. shareholders (including tax-exempt U.S. shareholders) to be subject to current U.S. federal income tax on the portion of our earnings attributable to certain intercompany reinsurance income (whether or not such income is distributed). • Legislation enacted in Bermuda as to Economic Substance may affect our operations. • We expect to become subject to increased taxation in Bermuda as a result of the recently adopted Bermuda CIT Act, and may become subject to increased taxation in other countries as a result of the implementation of the OECD's plan on “Base Erosion and Profit Shifting.” • Application of the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directives.
ARCH CAPITAL 45 Risks Relating to Our Industry, Business and Operations We operate in a highly competitive environment, and we may not be able to compete successfully in our industry.
Continued increases in the supply of insurance and reinsurance may have consequences for us, including fewer contracts written, lower premium rates, increased expenses for customer acquisition and retention, and less favorable policy terms and conditions.
The effects of inflation, trade and tariff disputes and global recessionary and other economic conditions impact the insurance and reinsurance industry in ways which may negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
While our business has not been directly impacted by the proposed Trump administration tariffs on imported goods, there may be a ripple effect on how these impact certain industries where we provide insurance or reinsurance.
It is too early to determine the long-term effect, if any, of the Trump administration tariff policy, but sustained escalation of tariffs and trade disputes may result in a global economic slowdown which impacts our clients.
In addition, it is anticipated that the Trump administration will promulgate a number of executive orders or propose legislation that could impact our industry.
We cannot predict with certainty the impact of these actions on our business and results of operations.
ARCH CAPITAL 46 Claims for natural and man-made catastrophic events could cause large losses and substantial volatility in our results of operations and could have a material adverse effect on our financial position and results of operations.
We have large aggregate exposures to natural and man-made catastrophic events.
Natural catastrophes can be caused by various events, including hurricanes, floods, wildfires, tsunamis, windstorms, earthquakes, hailstorms, tornadoes, explosions, severe winter weather, fires, droughts and other natural disasters.
Catastrophic events caused by humans may include acts of war, acts of terrorism and political instability.
ARCH CAPITAL 47 We attempt to manage our exposure to these risks relating to climate change through the use of underwriting controls, proprietary and third party risk models, and the purchase of third party reinsurance.
As a result, the occurrence of one or more catastrophic events and the continuation and worsening of recent trends could have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.
Our insurance and reinsurance subsidiaries are subject to supervision and regulation.
Regulatory authorities also may seek to exercise their supervisory or enforcement authority in new or more extensive ways, such as imposing increased capital requirements.
It is possible that requirements or guidance under one jurisdiction, such as the U.S., may be contradictory or divergent from requirements or guidance in other jurisdictions where we operate such as the EU.
Examples may be climate change disclosures and goals and diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Any of these actions, if they occur, could affect the competitive market, how we are regulated and the way we conduct our business and manage our capital and could result in lower revenues and higher costs.
Governments, regulators, legislators and influential non-governmental organizations continue to focus on enacting laws, regulations and other requirements relating to climate change.
Regulator and shareholder focus on “greenwashing” also continues.
We are subject to some of these changing laws, regulations and public policy debates, which are difficult to predict and quantify and may have an adverse impact on our business.
Legislative and regulatory initiatives and court decisions following major catastrophes, could force expansion of certain insurance coverages for catastrophe claims or otherwise adversely impact our business.
Additionally, changes in regulations or policies relating to climate change or our own leadership decisions implemented as a result of assessing the impact of climate change on our business may result in an increase in the cost of doing business, or a decrease in premiums in certain lines of business.
We are subject to CSRD and other EU and U.K. regulations relating to climate disclosures and goals.
These regulations require extensive reporting on climate and other social factors beyond current U.S. requirements.
The European Commission recently proposed changes to sustainability reporting requirements which may impact our reporting obligations.
We cannot predict how these proposals or other changes in sustainability requirements in any of the jurisdictions in which we operate will impact our operations, customers and shareholders.
Our efforts to address these exposures are based in part on the outcomes of our loss mitigation measures and risk modeling, our financial results of operations and our communications with our customers and shareholders.
We also continue to monitor changes across our industry and geographies and the Board considers these exposures regularly.
We may make strategic business decisions to address or respond to some of the legal and policy changes relating to climate change, but there is no assurance that these decisions will adequately address these exposures or that they will not result in a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition or share price.
ARCH CAPITAL 48 The imposition of sanctions by the U.S., U.K. and EU on Russia and Russia-related businesses has impacted certain sectors in which we write business.
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine hostilities have created a high level of uncertainty as well as disruption in certain sectors of the global economy.
A further prolonged war may also create continued uncertainty in the global economy in the form of oil shortages, inflationary pressures, loss of confidence and general increase in risks worldwide.

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