Who rates the Lloyd's market?
The current Insurer Financial Strength Ratings of the Lloyd's market are as follows:
Why is Lloyd's rated as a market?
All Lloyd's syndicates benefit from Lloyd's central resources, including the Lloyd's brand, its network of global licences and the Central Fund. The Central Fund is available at the discretion of the Council of Lloyd's to meet any valid claim that cannot be met by the resources of any member. As all Lloyd's policies are ultimately backed by this common security, a single market rating can be applied.
Hence the Lloyd's market rating applies to all business written by all syndicates post 1992.
Syndicate rating related products
In addition to the market ratings, the rating agencies also apply a range of other measures at a syndicate level.
In general, Lloyd's is not supportive of the rating of individual syndicates. All syndicates benefit from the strength of the Lloyd's brand, the global licence network and a wide range of other central activities carried out on behalf of the market. All policies written from 1993 at Lloyd's are backed by security that is partially mutualised via the Central Fund.
In most cases, therefore, Lloyd's believes that attempting to differentiate between syndicates by assigning individual financial strength ratings is not a meaningful analytical approach.
For further information on syndicate ratings please contact the rating agencies directly.
For previous years reports and press releases please contact Kamran Hossain on +44 207 327 5922 or kamran.hossain@lloyds.com
