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Alterra expects $55m-$70m 2011 profit

27 January 2012

Gross premiums written for the year was around $1.9bn, while overall combined ratio reached around 98%, Alterra’s CEO Marston Becker says.

Read more: Alterra financial results Q4 2011

Alterra Capital Holdings’ CEO Marston Becker has in a letter to the company’s shareholders said that while the company is pleased with its relative performance through the catastrophes in 2011, it is “obviously not pleased with their absolute impact on our 2011 earnings.”

He noted that overall insured cat losses for the industry “exceeded $100bn for the first time, with economic losses approaching $400bn” adding that Alterra’s total cat losses for 2011 were around $250m.

“The good news is that Alterra expects to be...


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If last year was the year of the cat, then this year could be the year of the debt crisis.

Mike Van Slooten, head of international market analysis at Aon Benfield