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BROOKFIELD, NEWS, Could 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Brookfield Reinsurance (NYSE, TSX: BNRE) at the moment introduced monetary outcomes for the quarter ended March 31, 2023.
Sachin Shah, CEO of Brookfield Reinsurance, acknowledged, “Our outcomes for the quarter have been robust and mirror the numerous progress of our enterprise and funding portfolio redeployment actions over the previous yr. We proceed to prioritize sourcing excessive worth funding alternatives, while scaling the general enterprise. Our excessive ranges of liquidity give us substantial flexibility in that regard.”
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| Unaudited As at and for the intervals ended March 31 (US$ tens of millions, besides per share quantities) |
Three Months Ended | ||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||||
| Whole property1 | $ | 44,951 | $ | 11,648 | |||
| Adjusted fairness1,2 | 4,721 | 1,576 | |||||
| Distributable working earnings2 | 145 | 13 | |||||
| Internet (loss) earnings1 | (93 | ) | 156 | ||||
| Internet earnings per class A share3 | $ | 0.07 | $ | 0.14 | |||
- As at January 1, 2023, Brookfield Reinsurance transformed its accounting framework from IFRS to US GAAP. The conversion is utilized retrospectively and prior interval figures have been restated the place relevant.
- See Non-GAAP and Efficiency Measures on web page 6 and a reconciliation from web earnings and reconciliation from fairness on web page 5.
- Class A and Class B shares obtain distributions on the identical quantity per share because the money dividends paid on every Brookfield Class A Share. Following the spin-off of Brookfield’s Asset Administration enterprise in December 2022, mixed, Brookfield Company’s quarterly distribution of $0.07 per share and Brookfield Asset Administration’s quarterly dividend of $0.32 per share (equal to $0.08 per Class A share held previous to the particular distribution), would equate to $0.15 per Class A share held previous to the particular distribution; representing a 7% enhance from the prior yr distribution.
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First Quarter Highlights
- Introduced a definitive settlement to accumulate Argo Group Worldwide Holdings, Ltd. (“Argo Group”) for about $1.1 billion, including $4 billion of float and additional diversifying our operations
- Elevated gross asset returns to over 5%, by $2 billion of funding deployment within the quarter, at returns in extra of 8%
- Return on fairness for the quarter on our unfold lending enterprise totaled 17%
- Originated over $600 million of annuity premiums inside our direct insurance coverage phase
- Added roughly $330 million of circulation premiums to our reinsurance treaties, bringing complete premiums reinsured thus far below our reinsurance treaty with American Fairness Life Insurance coverage Firm (“AEL”) to over $6 billion
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- Closed over 20 pension threat switch (“PRT”) transactions yr thus far, representing over $300 million of premiums, together with $250 million of premiums inside the US market, the place now we have been energetic since closing our first PRT transaction in December 2022
Working Replace
We acknowledged $145 million of Distributable working earnings (“DOE”) for the three months ended March 31, 2023 in comparison with $13 million within the prior yr interval. The rise was pushed by contributions from American Nationwide, which we acquired on the finish of Could 2022, in addition to larger web funding earnings from reinsurance treaties closed in late 2021, which have made vital progress over the past twelve months in redeploying property into larger yielding funding methods sourced by Brookfield and Oaktree.
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We recorded a web lack of $93 million (2022 – web earnings of $156 million) for the three months ended March 31, 2023, pushed largely by unrealized mark-to-market impacts on investments and insurance coverage reserves, partially offset by the contribution of DOE.
Right now, now we have roughly $2 billion of company liquidity, with a further $20 billion of money and liquid property inside our insurance coverage portfolios. This liquidity places us in a robust place to assist the redeployment of our funding portfolios in addition to fund future progress alternatives throughout our life, annuity and P&C enterprise strains, whereas additionally offering enough liquidity protection for stress legal responsibility situations within the occasion they come up.
Argo Group Replace
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On April 19, 2023 Argo introduced that its shareholders had voted to approve our acquisition of Argo. The transaction stays topic to different customary closing circumstances, together with receipt of required regulatory approvals and is anticipated to shut within the second half of 2023.
Common Distribution Declaration
The Board declared a quarterly distribution of $0.07 per Class A and B share, payable on June 30, 2023 to shareholders of report as on the shut of enterprise on June 15, 2023. This distribution is equivalent in quantity per share and has the identical fee date because the quarterly distribution introduced at the moment by Brookfield Company (“Brookfield”) on its Class A restricted voting shares (“Brookfield Class A Shares”).
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Brookfield Company Working Outcomes
An funding in Class A Shares of our firm is meant to be, as practically as practicable, functionally and economically, equal to an funding within the Brookfield Class A Shares. A abstract of Brookfield’s first quarter and final twelve months working outcomes is offered under:
| Unaudited For the intervals ended March 31 (US$ tens of millions, besides per share quantities) |
Three Months Ended | Final Twelve Months Ended | |||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||
| Internet earnings | $ | 424 | $ | 2,960 | $ | 2,659 | $ | 11,572 | |||
| Distributable earnings earlier than realizations | 945 | 947 | 4,312 | 3,674 | |||||||
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945 | 824 | 3,946 | 3,183 | |||||||
| 0.59 | 0.51 | 2.46 | 1.98 | ||||||||
| Distributable earnings | 1,157 | 1,182 | 5,204 | 4,957 | |||||||
| 0.72 | 0.73 | 3.25 | 3.09 | ||||||||
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- Distributable earnings earlier than realizations, together with per share quantities, for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and the twelve months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 have been adjusted for the particular distribution of 25% of Brookfield’s asset administration enterprise on December 9, 2022.
Brookfield Company web earnings above is introduced below IFRS. Given the financial equivalence, we count on that the market value of the Class A Shares of our firm shall be impacted considerably by the market value of the Brookfield Class A Shares and the enterprise efficiency of Brookfield as a complete. Along with rigorously contemplating the disclosure made on this information launch in its entirety, shareholders are strongly inspired to rigorously overview Brookfield’s letter to shareholders, supplemental data and its different steady disclosure filings. Buyers, analysts and different events can entry Brookfield’s disclosure on Brookfield’s web site below the Studies & Filings part at bn.brookfield.com.
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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
| Unaudited | March 31 | December 31 | ||||||
| (US$ tens of millions) | 2023 | 20221 | ||||||
| Property | ||||||||
| Money and money equivalents | $ | 2,354 | $ | 2,145 | ||||
| Investments | 31,087 | 30,307 | ||||||
| Reinsurance funds withheld | 6,004 | 5,806 | ||||||
| Accrued funding earnings | 352 | 341 | ||||||
| Reinsurance recoverables | 615 | 619 | ||||||
| Premiums due and different receivables | 476 | 436 | ||||||
| Deferred coverage acquisition prices | 1,703 | 1,505 | ||||||
| Deferred tax asset | 433 | 470 | ||||||
| Different property | 829 | 710 | ||||||
| Separate account property | 1,098 | 1,045 | ||||||
| Whole property | 44,951 | 43,384 | ||||||
| Liabilities and fairness | ||||||||
| Future coverage advantages | 8,349 | 7,900 | ||||||
| Policyholders’ account balances | 20,784 | 20,141 | ||||||
| Coverage and contract claims | 1,825 | 1,786 | ||||||
| Deposit liabilities | 1,643 | 1,657 | ||||||
| Market threat profit | 119 | 124 | ||||||
| Unearned premium reserve | 1,119 | 1,086 | ||||||
| Attributable to associated events | 247 | 241 | ||||||
| Different policyholder funds | 323 | 322 | ||||||
| Notes payable | 184 | 151 | ||||||
| Company borrowings | 2,049 | 2,160 | ||||||
| Subsidiary borrowings | 1,493 | 1,492 | ||||||
| Liabilities issued to reinsurance entities | 166 | 151 | ||||||
| Different liabilities | 1,117 | 836 | ||||||
| Separate account liabilities | 1,098 | 1,045 | ||||||
| Junior most popular shares | 2,607 | 2,580 | ||||||
| Non-controlling curiosity | 9 | 8 | ||||||
| Class A exchangeable and Class B | 460 | 432 | ||||||
| Class C | 1,359 | 1,828 | 1,272 | 1,712 | ||||
| Whole liabilities and fairness | $ | 44,951 | $ | 43,384 | ||||
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- December 31, 2022 displays changes associated to the adoption of accounting for US GAAP and Lengthy Period Focused Enhancements issued by the FASB, efficient January 1, 2023 and utilized retrospectively.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
| Unaudited For the intervals ended March 31 (US$ tens of millions, besides per share quantities) |
Three Months Ended | ||||||
| 2023 | 20221 | ||||||
| Internet premiums and different coverage income | $ | 897 | $ | 109 | |||
| Internet funding earnings, together with funds withheld | 451 | 71 | |||||
| Internet funding beneficial properties and losses, together with funds withheld | (145 | ) | 98 | ||||
| Whole revenues | 1,203 | 278 | |||||
| Advantages and claims paid on insurance coverage contracts | (742 | ) | (105 | ) | |||
| Curiosity delicate contract advantages | (241 | ) | (18 | ) | |||
| Commissions for buying companies and insurance policies, web of adjustments in DAC | (68 | ) | 20 | ||||
| Different reinsurance bills | (14 | ) | (4 | ) | |||
| Adjustments in truthful worth of market threat profit | (6 | ) | 12 | ||||
| Working bills | (176 | ) | (17 | ) | |||
| Curiosity expense | (60 | ) | (5 | ) | |||
| Whole advantages and bills | (1,307 | ) | (117 | ) | |||
| Internet (loss) earnings earlier than earnings taxes | (104 | ) | 161 | ||||
| Revenue tax restoration (expense) | 11 | (5 | ) | ||||
| Internet (loss) earnings for the interval | $ | (93 | ) | $ | 156 | ||
| Attributable to: | |||||||
| Class A exchangeable & class B shareholders2 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Class C shareholder | (99 | ) | 154 | ||||
| Non-controlling curiosity | 5 | — | |||||
| $ | (93 | ) | $ | 156 | |||
| Internet earnings per class A share | $ | 0.07 | $ | 0.14 | |||
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- Three months ended 2022 displays changes associated to the adoption of accounting for US GAAP and Lengthy Period Focused Enhancements issued by the FASB, efficient January 1, 2023 and utilized retrospectively
- Class A shares obtain distributions on the identical quantity per share because the money dividends paid on every Brookfield Class A Share.
SUMMARIZED FINANCIAL RESULTS
RECONCILIATION OF NET INCOME TO DISTRIBUTABLE OPERATING EARNINGS
| Unaudited For the intervals ended March 31 US$ tens of millions |
Three Months Ended | ||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||||
| Internet (loss) earnings | $ | (93 | ) | $ | 156 | ||
| Internet funding beneficial properties and losses, together with funds withheld | 145 | (98 | ) | ||||
| Mark-to-market on insurance coverage contracts and different web property | 97 | (56 | ) | ||||
| 149 | 2 | ||||||
| Deferred earnings tax expense | (13 | ) | 4 | ||||
| Transaction prices | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Fairness accounted (earnings) loss | — | 3 | |||||
| Depreciation | 5 | — | |||||
| Distributable working earnings1 | $ | 145 | $ | 13 | |||
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RECONCILIATION OF EQUITY TO ADJUSTED EQUITY
| Unaudited As at March 31 US$ tens of millions |
2023 | 2022 | |||
| Fairness | $ | 1,828 | $ | 1,446 | |
| Add: | |||||
| Collected different complete loss (earnings) | 286 | 130 | |||
| Junior most popular shares | 2,607 | — | |||
| Adjusted Fairness1 | $ | 4,721 | $ | 1,576 | |
- Non-GAAP measure – see Non-GAAP and Efficiency Measures on web page 6.
Further Info
Brookfield Reinsurance was established on December 10, 2020 by Brookfield and on June 28, 2021 Brookfield accomplished the spin-off of the corporate, which was effected by the use of a particular dividend, to holders of Brookfield’s Class A and B Shares. On January 1, 2023, Brookfield Reinsurance transformed its accounting framework from Worldwide Monetary Reporting Requirements (“IFRS”) to usually accepted accounting principals in the US of America (“US GAAP” or “GAAP”). The corporate’s conversion to US GAAP companies to offer extra comparable monetary data to the opposite insurance coverage firms within the markets it operates in, in addition to extra helpful monetary data and to its counterparties, buyers and different stakeholders. The statements contained herein are based mostly totally on data that has been extracted from our monetary statements for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, which have been ready utilizing US GAAP.
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Brookfield Reinsurance’s Board of Administrators have reviewed and accepted this doc, together with the summarized unaudited consolidated monetary statements previous to its launch.
Info on our distributions will be discovered on our web site below Inventory & Distributions/Distribution Historical past.
Brookfield Reinsurance Ltd. (NYSE, TSX: BNRE) operates a number one capital options enterprise offering insurance coverage and reinsurance companies to people and establishments. Every class A exchangeable restricted voting share of Brookfield Reinsurance is exchangeable on a one-for-one foundation with a category A restricted voting share of Brookfield Company. (NYSE/TSX: BN). For extra data, please go to our web site at bnre.brookfield.com or contact:
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Non-GAAP and Efficiency Measures
This information launch and accompanying monetary statements are based mostly on US GAAP, as issued by the FASB, until in any other case famous.
We make reference to Distributable working earnings. We outline distributable working earnings as web earnings excluding the affect of depreciation and amortization, deferred earnings taxes, and breakage and transaction prices, in addition to sure funding and insurance coverage reserve beneficial properties and losses, together with beneficial properties and losses associated to asset and legal responsibility matching methods and alter in market threat advantages, and is inclusive of returns on fairness invested in sure variable curiosity entities and our share of adjusted earnings from our investments in sure associates. Distributable working earnings is a measure of working efficiency. We use distributable working earnings to evaluate our working outcomes. We additionally make reference to Adjusted Fairness. Adjusted Fairness represents the entire financial fairness of our Firm by its Class A, B, and C shares, excluding accrued different complete earnings, and the Junior Most well-liked Shares issued by our Firm. We use Adjusted Fairness to evaluate our return on our fairness.
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We offer extra data on key phrases and non-GAAP measures in our filings out there at bnre.brookfield.com.
Discover to Readers
Brookfield Reinsurance just isn’t making any supply or invitation of any form by communication of this information launch and below no circumstance is it to be construed as a prospectus or an commercial.
This information launch comprises “forward-looking data” inside the that means of Canadian provincial securities legal guidelines and “forward-looking statements” inside the that means of Canadian provincial securities legal guidelines and “forward-looking statements” inside the that means of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, the U.S. Securities Alternate Act of 1934, and “protected harbor” provisions of the US Personal Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and in any relevant Canadian securities rules. Ahead-looking statements embrace statements which might be predictive in nature, depend on or seek advice from future occasions or circumstances, embrace statements which mirror administration’s expectations relating to the operations, enterprise, monetary situation, anticipated monetary outcomes, efficiency, prospects, alternatives, priorities, targets, targets, ongoing aims, methods and outlook of Brookfield Reinsurance and its subsidiaries, in addition to the outlook for North American and worldwide economies for the present fiscal yr and subsequent intervals. Significantly, statements relating to future capital markets initiatives, together with statements regarding the redeployment of capital into larger yielding investments and Brookfield Reinsurance’s stability sheet initiatives represent forward-looking statements. In some circumstances, forward-looking statements will be recognized by way of forward-looking terminology reminiscent of “expects,” “anticipates,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” “seeks,” “intends,” “targets,” “tasks,” “forecasts” or unfavorable variations thereof and different comparable expressions, or future or conditional verbs reminiscent of “could,” “will,” “ought to,” “would” and “may.” Specifically, the forward-looking statements contained on this information launch embrace statements referring to the long run state of the financial system or the securities market and anticipated future deployment of capital and monetary earnings. Though we consider that our anticipated future outcomes, efficiency or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements and data are based mostly upon cheap assumptions and expectations, the reader shouldn’t place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and data as a result of they contain recognized and unknown dangers, uncertainties and different elements, a lot of that are past our management, which can trigger the precise outcomes, efficiency or achievements of Brookfield Reinsurance to vary materially from anticipated future outcomes, efficiency or achievement expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and data.
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Elements that might trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from these contemplated or implied by forward-looking statements embrace, however should not restricted to: (i) funding returns which might be decrease than goal; (ii) the affect or unanticipated affect of common financial, political and market elements within the international locations during which we do enterprise together with because of COVID-19 and the associated international financial shutdown; (iii) the conduct of monetary markets, together with fluctuations in curiosity and international trade charges; (iv) international fairness and capital markets and the provision of fairness and debt financing and refinancing inside these markets; (v) strategic actions together with tendencies; the flexibility to finish and successfully combine acquisitions into present operations and the flexibility to realize anticipated advantages; (vi) adjustments in accounting insurance policies and strategies used to report monetary situation (together with uncertainties related to essential accounting assumptions and estimates); (vii) the flexibility to appropriately handle human capital; (viii) the impact of making use of future accounting adjustments; (ix) enterprise competitors; (x) operational and reputational dangers; (xi) technological change; (xii) adjustments in authorities regulation and laws inside the international locations during which we function; (xiii) governmental investigations; (xiv) litigation; (xv) adjustments in tax legal guidelines; (xvi) means to gather quantities owed; (xvii) catastrophic occasions, reminiscent of earthquakes, hurricanes and epidemics/pandemics; (xviii) the doable affect of worldwide conflicts and different developments together with terrorist acts and cyberterrorism; (xix) the introduction, withdrawal, success and timing of enterprise initiatives and methods; (xx) the failure of efficient disclosure controls and procedures and inner controls over monetary reporting and different dangers; (xxi) well being, security and environmental dangers; (xxii) the upkeep of sufficient insurance coverage protection; (xxiii) the existence of data boundaries between sure companies inside our asset administration operations; (xxiv) dangers particular to our enterprise segments together with our actual property, renewable energy, infrastructure, personal fairness, and different options, together with credit; and (xxv) elements detailed infrequently in our paperwork filed with the securities regulators in Canada and the US.
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We warning that the foregoing listing of necessary elements which will have an effect on future outcomes just isn’t exhaustive and different elements may additionally adversely have an effect on its outcomes. Readers are urged to think about the foregoing dangers, in addition to different uncertainties, elements and assumptions rigorously in evaluating the forward-looking data and are cautioned to not place undue reliance on such forward-looking data. Besides as required by legislation, Brookfield Reinsurance undertakes no obligation to publicly replace or revise any forward-looking statements or data, whether or not written or oral, which may be because of new data, future occasions or in any other case.
Previous efficiency just isn’t indicative nor a assure of future outcomes. There will be no assurance that comparable outcomes shall be achieved sooner or later, that future investments shall be much like the historic investments mentioned herein (due to financial circumstances, the provision of funding alternatives or in any other case), that focused returns, diversification or asset allocations shall be met or that an funding technique or funding aims shall be achieved.
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Sure of the knowledge contained herein relies on or derived from data offered by impartial third-party sources. Whereas Brookfield Reinsurance believes that such data is correct as of the date it was produced and that the sources from which such data has been obtained are dependable, Brookfield Reinsurance doesn’t make any illustration or guarantee, categorical or implied, with respect to the accuracy, reasonableness or completeness of any of the knowledge or the assumptions on which such data relies, contained herein, together with however not restricted to, data obtained from third events.
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