NYSE, AWH - Allied World Assurance Company
We are a Bermuda-based specialty insurance and reinsurance company that
underwrites a diversified portfolio of property and casualty insurance and
reinsurance lines of business. We write direct property and casualty insurance
as well as reinsurance through our operations in Bermuda, the United States,
Ireland and the United Kingdom. For the year ended December 31, 2007, direct
property insurance, direct casualty insurance and reinsurance accounted for
approximately 26.0%, 38.4% and 35.6%, respectively, of our total gross premiums
written of $1,505.5 million.
We were formed in November 2001 by a group of investors, including American
International Group, Inc. (?AIG?), The Chubb Corporation (?Chubb?), certain
affiliates of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (the ?Goldman Sachs Funds?) and
Securitas Allied Holdings, Ltd., an affiliate of Swiss Reinsurance Company
(?Swiss Re?). Since our formation, we have focused primarily on the direct
insurance markets. ...
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