Q3 2020 Topdanmark A/S Earnings Call Transcript

Oct 23, 2020 / 01:30PM GMT
Peter Hermann - Topdanmark A/S-CEO&Member of Executive Board

Good afternoon, everybody, and good morning to the U.S.A. Thank you for joining us at this conference call. With me is Lars Thykier, our CFO; and Steffen Heegaard, Group IR Director. And we are holding this conference call because earlier today, we published the Q3 report, but I would like to start the conference call with a few opening remarks.

Q3 was not a good quarter for Topdanmark. First of all, the quarter was negatively impacted by a deterioration of the claims trend on house insurance. In the Q1 and Q2 reports, we addressed the issue of higher level of rain and water pipe claims. In Q3, we furthermore had few but very large fire claims. The claims trend in -- on house insurance deteriorated the overall claims trend by 2.6 percentage points in Q3, which explains the drop in the underlying claims trend of 1.3 percentage points.

We have taken action in order to regain profitability on house insurance by way of risk-based pricing, by increased focus on acceptance

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