

Markel Company has revealed its monetary outcomes for the 12 months ended December 31, 2022 – a interval throughout which the corporate posted a complete loss to shareholders price $1.3 billion.
Beneath are the full-year numbers reported by the insurance coverage group.
Metric
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2022
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2021
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Web revenue/(loss) to shareholders
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$(1.3 billion)
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$2.1 billion
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Underwriting revenue
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$626.6 million
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$628.1 million
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Web funding revenue
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$446.8 million
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$367.4 million
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Markel Ventures web revenue
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$192.6 million
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$174.4 million
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Lifting the lid on the figures, Markel mentioned: “Complete loss to shareholders in 2022 resulted from web funding losses and unrealized losses on our fastened maturity portfolio, which greater than offset working revenue from our insurance coverage and Markel Ventures operations.
“We usually maintain our fastened maturity investments to maturity and customarily would anticipate these losses to reverse.”
Web funding losses (as a substitute of features) within the 12-month span amounted to $1.6 billion resulting from unfavorable market worth actions leading to a lower within the truthful worth of Markel’s fairness portfolio.
The corporate went on to spotlight: “We imagine our monetary efficiency is most meaningfully measured over longer durations of time, which tends to mitigate the results of short-term volatility and in addition aligns with the longer-term perspective we apply to working our companies.
“We usually use five-year durations to measure our efficiency. Over the five-year interval ended December 31, 2022, the compound annual development in e-book worth per widespread share was 6%. Over the five-year interval ended December 31, 2022, our share worth elevated at a compound annual fee of three%.”