A.M. Best Withdraws Ratings of Hang Seng General Insurance (Hong Kong) Company Limited

Concurrently, A.M. Best has withdrawn the ratings at the company’s request and assigned an NR-4 to the FSR and an “nr” to the ICR. These rating actions reflect HSGI management’s decision to withdraw from A.M. Best’s interactive rating process.

The ratings reflect HSGI’s sound risk-adjusted capitalization, continued profitable underwriting result and conservative investment portfolio.

Partially offsetting these positive rating factors are the company’s unfavorable investment result in 2008 and stagnant growth in Hong Kong’s non-life insurance sector.

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