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Assured Guaranty Ltd. Reports Results for First Quarter 2021

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Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE: AGO) (AGL and, together with its consolidated entities, Assured Guaranty or the Company) announced today its financial results for the three-month period ended March 31, 2021 (first quarter 2021).

Commenting on first quarter activity, Dominic Frederico, President and CEO said: “Assured Guaranty has now reached important new consensual settlement agreements relating to Puerto Rico that, combined with a previous agreement, will resolve over 93% of our net par outstanding of Puerto Rico exposures, once court-approved and implemented. Of our additional $241 million of net par, almost all relates to credits that have not missed any principal or interest payments.

“Additionally,” he continued, “in a quarter when our important shareholder value measures of adjusted operating shareholders' equity per share and adjusted book value per share again achieved new highs, our new business production generated $86 million of PVP, more than in all but one first quarter since 2009, driven by very strong U.S. public finance production. The $5.5 billion of municipal new issue par sold with our insurance was the most we insured in any first quarter since 2010, and our 65% share of insured municipal par sold was better than our market share in any quarter since 2014.

“The first quarter also saw a resurgence in the global CLO market that benefited our asset management business, which issued two new CLOs during the quarter and continued to sell legacy CLO equity to third parties. CLO management fees for the quarter were more than double those of last year’s first quarter.”

(1)

All per share information for net income and adjusted operating income is based on diluted shares.

(2)

Please see “Explanation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”

Summary Financial Results

(in millions, except per share amounts)

 

 

Quarter Ended

 

March 31,

 

2021

 

2020

 

 

 

 

GAAP

 

 

 

Net income (loss) attributable to AGL

$

11

 

 

$

(55

)

Net income (loss) attributable to AGL per diluted share

$

0.14

 

 

$

(0.59

)

Weighted average diluted shares

77.5

 

 

92.6

 

Non-GAAP

 

 

 

Adjusted operating income (loss) (1) (2)

$

43

 

 

$

33

 

Adjusted operating income per diluted share(2)

$

0.55

 

 

$

0.36

 

Weighted average diluted shares

77.5

 

 

93.4

 

 

 

 

 

Segment (1)

 

 

 

Insurance

$

79

 

 

$

85

 

Asset Management

(7

)

 

(9

)

Corporate

(29

)

 

(39

)

Other

 

 

(4

)

Adjusted operating income (loss)

$

43

 

 

$

33

 

 

As of

 

March 31, 2021

 

December 31, 2020

 

Amount

 

Per Share

 

Amount

 

Per Share

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shareholders' equity attributable to AGL

$

6,430

 

 

$

84.67

 

 

$

6,643

 

 

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assured guaranty is the leading provider of municipal bond insurance and other applications of financial guaranty insurance. we guarantee scheduled principal and interest payments when due on municipal, public infrastructure and structured financings. for more information, visit assuredguaranty.com