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Why Ascot?
- The Ascot Ecosystem facilitates a nimble, adaptable approach to customer service, leveraging our global platforms with separate and distinct strategies for each market segment that combine to enhance portfolio value and manage volatility through market cycles. A streamlined governance structure ensures consistency and discipline across geographies, segments and balance sheets.
- We do everything the Ascot Way: Our greatest strength is our engaged colleagues, who flourish in a collaborative, innovative and entrepreneurial culture steeped in excellence to solve the world’s toughest risks.
- We’re customer centric, risk centric and tech centric. Everything we do is designed to get closer to the customer. We are committed to solid disciplined underwriting that drives strong, positive results, and harnessing the power of technology to drive an efficient, flexible multi platform underwriting ecosystem and streamline and enhance the client experience.
- We are building for the future: We are highly capitalized and financially strong (with an AM Best “A” rating), and we lack legacy liabilities. We are investing in our future through cutting edge data and technology, products, services and solutions and best in class talent.
- We believe insurance is a promise. Our team of dedicated, experienced, and responsive claims professionals leverage our combined industry and geographic experience, litigation management skills and flat organizational structure to get to the right solution quickly and comprehensively for our insureds.
What’s New at Ascot?
- We are innovating with a customer-first mindset to bring new solutions to the market to address emerging risks, including the Q2 2024 launch of our Captive Solutions capabilities, the launch of our Marine & Energy Treaty reinsurance business, and a new Hull War and P&I War Facility to provide grain and other critical food supplies from Ukraine.
- Ascot has a seasoned leadership team with deep expertise and extensive global industry experience across underwriting, distribution and claims who find creative ways to solve customer challenges and deploy capital in a true cross product and platform approach. We continue to build upon, develop, and promote our deep bench of talent: including in 2024 adding Dane Lopes, Head of U.S. Partnership Engagement & Strategy; a quartet of key regional leaders in U.S. Excess Casualty, and U.S. Chief Information Officer Andrew McDonald.
