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    Indeed .. yet another exciting & rewarding experience for poor unfortunate holders of TWR contributory dreadfuls

    NTA - Static
    EPS - Down not quite half mast
    DPS - All Zero's

    Rewards all dished out to Policy Holders (all $7.2 mil of it)

    Stakeholders once again get left hung out to dry another duration, it seems

    No wonder the TWR SP always seems to head south fairly quickly

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    Quote Originally Posted by nztx View Post
    Indeed .. yet another exciting & rewarding experience for poor unfortunate holders of TWR contributory dreadfuls

    NTA - Static
    EPS - Down not quite half mast
    DPS - All Zero's

    Rewards all dished out to Policy Holders (all $7.2 mil of it)

    Stakeholders once again get left hung out to dry another duration, it seems

    No wonder the TWR SP always seems to head south fairly quickly

    Discl: Not a Holder
    There is some useful strength in underlying metrics, but it is no surprise the market is applying a significant discount to the possible true value. This is most likely due to lack of confidence in managements ability to do their core job of estimating risks accurately. Going back to page 44 of the 2018 annual report page Tower estimated that the net EQC receivable was $52m and a risk margin of $10.1m had been allowed in this figure so something over $62m was expected. The 2019 accounts again had a net $53m so while a net $42.1m is good to see, it is $20m short of what was implied a couple of years ago.


    The 2018 annual report indicated full provisioning for the Canterbury earthquakes with a $5m additional risk margin. Again on page 44: "...and the remaining $5.0m is expected to be released once the Canterbury Outstanding Claims Liability has sufficiently run off."
    The Actual 2019 result included an additional net claims expense of $6.048m. This theoretically increased provisioning to 148% of likely expenses. Was this enough? No.
    The 2020 result included additional provisioning with amounts of $2.4m and $2.7m referenced in different places. At least the $5m risk margin still exists.

    But management then have the cheek to state "The Canterbury portfolio is performing in line with expectations in most areas. The after tax strengthening of $2.7m for FY20 represents the lowest annual increase since 2014".

    If it was performing inline with expectations, the 2020 P&L would have had no incremental expense, and part of the $5m risk margin being credited back increasing the surplus. As I write this I'm not surprised the share price declined with the result.

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    So now it seems Tower's brilliant leadership team plans to use the excess funds to go shopping rather than returning it to shareholders. They raised the $47 odd million last year from shareholders to prop up their capital adequacy because the reserve bank wouldn't accept the (then) EQC receivable as part of their capital adequacy. Now they have finally go their hands on the EQC money (albeit somewhat diminished) they don't think that they are obliged to give it back to shareholders, instead they look around for some other way they can spend it - jeez, what a crew!
    Do they look at the share price performance and pat themselves on the back, telling themselves that their shareholders are happy with their strategy? What world do they live in.
    And don't get me started on the return of premiums re covid lockdown.
    These people don't need to be buying other insurance books, they need to be bought themselves and maybe then their long-suffering shareholders can be put out of their misery

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poet View Post
    So now it seems Tower's brilliant leadership team plans to use the excess funds to go shopping rather than returning it to shareholders. They raised the $47 odd million last year from shareholders to prop up their capital adequacy because the reserve bank wouldn't accept the (then) EQC receivable as part of their capital adequacy. Now they have finally go their hands on the EQC money (albeit somewhat diminished) they don't think that they are obliged to give it back to shareholders, instead they look around for some other way they can spend it - jeez, what a crew!
    Do they look at the share price performance and pat themselves on the back, telling themselves that their shareholders are happy with their strategy? What world do they live in.
    And don't get me started on the return of premiums re covid lockdown.
    These people don't need to be buying other insurance books, they need to be bought themselves and maybe then their long-suffering shareholders can be put out of their misery
    Sounds like you a bit unhappy - why remain a shareholder if things are so bleak
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    Love the way they say underlying profit excluding large events increased 23% on the prior year to $34.7m,

    Tower like all insurers use the old its climate change trick when they talk about 'large events'

    They only getting their comeuppance - or whoever paying them back (penalising them) for the all the years insurance companies propped up the oil and mining industries by 'investing' their vast amount of premiums in such dirty industries

    Some might say karma
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    One thing that should not be underestimated - the successful transformation of the legacy IT systems (and the massive expenditure on this), is going to be very advantageous over the coming years.
    Tower have not only essentially completed the replacement and move, also migrated their own book plus another insurers book into this system in quick succession.
    These types of projects not only usually have a high failure rate, they often don't move anywhere near as quickly.

    Reaching a settlement with EQC, alongside the new agreement going forward for future events, will reduce the issues encountered with CHCH that are still ongoing.
    It is less than 100% sure, but as others have noted better than further years of litigation and uncertainty.

    I believe the idea behind excluding large events was to enable more reasonable year to year comparisons. This is based on the idea that large events don't happen with the same frequency or impact in every year. Not sure how true that is these days but it stands.

    The wording around the dividend resumption would have been better received if acquisitions wasn't mentioned. Understand the general market conditions wording makes sense.
    Dividend stream has been dry since 2016. Looking back prior to those days dividend stream was 6-10c per year so maintaining the cost control and bringing back even a part of that would reassure.
    I couldn't find a stated dividend policy?
    Regardless of how FY21 goes, this is more of a FY22 story if you have the patience.

    The covid premium refund is a tricky area. Insurers do offer discounts for low usage of vehicles, as this reduces risk. So this could be similar.
    Claims massively dropped for all the industry players.
    Insurance is an industry that operates under the idea of utmost good faith, so hopefully this gesture is seen well by customers in years to come.
    General insurance is a product that is very easy to switch and compare at the moment so goodwill is valuable.

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    Antipodean said - I believe the idea behind excluding large events was to enable more reasonable year to year comparisons.

    I believe so

    Bit like casinos often ‘normalise’ profits by using expected returns from the high rollers.

    Some years the big guys beat the house and some years the house does well ...but casino provides a profit number that gives reasonable comparatives year by year

    Spose insurance is a bit like a casino ..place your byes and hooe for the best
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    But do they exclude the premium & investment income also - generated off years of covering
    Larger more extreme events - levied at presumably the appropriate costed risk rate ?

    It seems like more TWR Insurance gibberish & BS to cover their Asses IMO

    (ie: just a further bundle of Accounting Window dressing from the TWR Dividend shirkers)

    How many normal years would they have where there was only the likes of a heirem of TWR Insured Joe Bloggs's
    making claims for hitting their Letterboxes and like minor claims ?
    Last edited by nztx; 26-11-2020 at 02:09 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by winner69 View Post
    Love the way they say underlying profit excluding large events increased 23% on the prior year to $34.7m,

    Tower like all insurers use the old its climate change trick when they talk about 'large events'

    They only getting their comeuppance - or whoever paying them back (penalising them) for the all the years insurance companies propped up the oil and mining industries by 'investing' their vast amount of premiums in such dirty industries

    Some might say karma
    Nice story... but TWR invests in bonds and mostly government and bank bonds at that. From the HY report:

    Tower has a low risk tolerance and therefore the majority of its investments are in investment grade supranational and bank bonds.
    Insurers have done more than most in signalling the future costs and risks of climate change. Not least via their risk adjusted premiums on things like beachfront properties.

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    Pleasing seeing the chairman brought 200,000 shares at 60 cents increasing his holding.
    Old saying says plenty of reasons directors sell shares, but only one reason they buy them.

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