Jay Madhu - Chairman and CEO Wrendon Timothy - CFO and Corporate Secretary.

Analysts:.

Good afternoon. Welcome to Oxbridge Re Holdings' Third Quarter 2018 Earnings Call. My name is Rob and I will be your conference operator this afternoon. At this time, all participants will be in a listen-only mode.

Joining us for today's presentation is Oxbridge Re’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jay Madhu and Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary, Wrendon Timothy. Following their remarks, we will open up the call for your questions.

I would like to remind everyone that this call is also being broadcast live via webcast and available via webcast replay until December 30, 2018, on the Investor Information section of Oxbridge Re's website at www.oxbridgere.com.

Now, I would like to turn the call over to Wrendon Timothy, Chief Financial Officer of Oxbridge Re, who will provide the necessary cautions regarding the forward-looking statements that will be made by management during this call. Sir, please proceed..

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Now I would like to turn the call over to our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Jay Madhu.

Jay?.

Thank you Wrendon and welcome everyone. Thank you for joining us today. As we do each quarter, before we get into our results, I would like to take a moment to provide a brief overview of our company.

Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited was founded over five years ago with a mission to provide reinsurance solutions, primarily to property and casualty insurers in the Gulf Coast region of the United States.

Through our licensed reinsurance subsidiary, Oxbridge Reinsurance Limited and our newly formed subsidiary Oxbridge RE NS, we write fully collateralized policies to cover property losses from specific catastrophes. And as some of you already know, because we write fully collateralized contracts, we are able to compete effectively with large carriers.

We specialize in underwriting medium frequency, high-severity risk, where we believe sufficient data exists to effectively analyze the risk/return profile of reinsurance contracts.

Our objective is to achieve long-term growth in book value per share by writing business on a selective and opportunistic basis that will generate attractive underwriting profits relative to risk.

Regarding our investment portfolio, we remain opportunistic and will deploy our capital when favorable return opportunities arise, which we believe will in turn drive our results through supplemental investment income. That being said, our focus and top priority remains on profitable underwriting.

With that overview now behind us and before we going to our results for the third quarter, I will now turn it over to Wrendon to take us through our financial results for the period.

Wrendon?.

Thank you again Jay. I will now get into our financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018. With respect to net premiums earned, for the third quarter 2018, net premiums decreased $18.6 million to $700,000 from $19.3 million in the third quarter of 2017.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2018, net premiums earned decreased $22.1 million to $1.3 million compared with $23.3 million for the first nine months of 2017.

The decrease in both the three and nine months periods is primarily due to the previous acceleration of premium recognition due to full limit losses being incurred on all of our reinsurance contracts during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, as well as significantly lower capital deployed during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018, when compared to the same period of the prior fiscal year.

With respect to net investment income, for the third quarter 2018, net investment income totaled $100,000 plus $118,000 of change in fair value of equity securities which was offset by $61,000 of net realized investment losses.

This compares with $128,000 of net investment income offset by $104,000 of net realized investment losses for the third quarter of 2017. For the nine months ended September 30, 2018, net investment totaled $280,000 plus $22,000 of change in fair value of equity securities which was also by $237,000 of net realized investment losses.

This compares with $341,000 of net investment income offset by $56,000 of net realized investment losses for the first nine months of 2017.

With respect to total expenses, total expenses for the third quarter of 2018, including loss and loss adjustment expenses, policy acquisition costs and underwriting expenses and general and admin expenses, were $358,000 compared with $42.3 million in the third quarter of 2017.

For the first nine months ended September 30, 2018, total expenses were $1.1 million compared with $44.2 million in the first nine months of 2017.

The three and nine month decrease in total expenses was due primarily to the fact that neither any losses nor adverse loss development occurred during the three and nine months periods ended September 30, 2018, while compared with significant loss and loss adjustment expenses during the previous three years are the result of Hurricanes Irma, Harvey and Maria.

With respect to net income, for the third quarter of 2018, net income totaled $652,000 or $0.11 per basic and diluted share, compared with net loss of $23 million or $3.97 per basic and diluted share in the third quarter of 2017.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2018, net income totaled $706,000 or $0.12 per basic and diluted common share, compared with net loss of $20.6 million or $3.53 per basic and diluted common share for the first nine months of 2017.

The significant increase in both the three and nine months period is primarily due to the triggering during the nine month period ended September 30, 2017 of limit losses on all reinsurance contracts, due to the individual and collective impact of Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria on our local business compared with no catastrophic losses during the three and nine month period ended September 30, 2018.

Now turning to our financial ratios for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018. We have various measures to analyze the growth and profitability of our business operations. For our reinsurance business, we measure underwriting profitability by examining our loss ratio, acquisition cost ratio, expense ratio, and combined ratio.

Our loss ratio, which measures underwriting profitability, is the ratio of loss and loss adjustment expenses incurred to net premiums earned. Our loss ratio for the third quarter of 2018 was 0% compared to 214.4% for the third quarter of 2017.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the loss ratio was 0% compared to a loss ratio of 181.8% during the first nine months of 2017.

For both the three and nine months period, the decrease was due to the significant loss and loss adjustment expenses incurred in the three and nine month periods ended September 30 2018 due to limit losses on all then active contracts compared to no losses on loss adjustment expenses in the corresponding three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2018.

Our acquisition cost ratio which measures operational efficiency compares policy acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses to net premiums earned. The acquisition cost ratio was 9% for the third quarter of 2018, compared with 2.7% for the same year ago period.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the acquisition cost ratio was 8.1% compared with 2.9% for the same year ago period.

For the three and nine month periods, the increase was due to the overall higher weighted average acquisition costs on reinsurance contracts in force during the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2018, compared with corresponding period ended September 30, 2017.

Our expense ratio, which measures operating performance, compares policy acquisition costs, underwriting expenses and general and admin expenses to net premiums earned. The expense ratio totaled 33.5% during the third quarter of 2017, compared with 4.6% for the third quarter of 2017.

For the first nine months ended September 30, 2018, the expense ratio was 53.8% compared with 7.6% for the first nine months of 2017.

For the three and nine month periods, the increase was due primarily to a lower denominator in net premiums earned and net income from derivative instruments as recorded during the three and six month period ended June 30, 2018, when compared with the corresponding three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2017.

Our combined ratio, which is used to measure underwriting performance, is the sum of the loss ratio and the expense ratio. If the combined ratio is at or above 100%, underwriting is not profitable. For the third quarter of 2018, the combined ratio was 33.5% compared with 219% for the third quarter of 2017.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the combined ratio was 53.8% compared with 189.3% for the same year ago period.

For the three and nine month period the increase was due to a lower loss ratio during the three and nine month period ended September 30, 2018, when compared with a corresponding three and nine month period ended September 30, 2017. Now turning to the balance sheet.

Total investments, which include investments in fixed maturity and equity securities, totaled $4.8 million at September 30, 2018, compared with $6.5 million at December 31, 2017. Total shareholders' equity at September 30, 2018 was $14.7 million, up from $13.9 million at December 31, 2017.

At September 30, 2018, cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash and cash equivalents totaled $12.1 million compared with $10.9 million at December 31, 2017. Now with that, I would like to turn the call back over to Jay.

Jay?.

Thank you, Wrendon. During the third quarter, we did see a major storm namely Hurricane Florence make landfall.

Fortunately given our limited exposure to the Carolina’s and despite it’s estimated damage of $16 billion and insured losses of approximately $2 billion to $4.6 billion, we appear not to have been directly impacted by Hurricane Florence in the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter Hurricane Michael the most powerful storm to hit Florida a record made landfall on October 10, 2018. Preliminary intimation in case of the storm has caused significant losses with an estimated range of $6 billion to $10 billion of insured losses.

Given our Florida exposure, we will suffer a net loss to our capital and earnings of approximately $3.1 million or $0.54 per basic and diluted share after taking into consideration our quota-share agreement for our reinsurance sidecar. As such our book value per share will be reduced from $2.7 at the end of the third quarter to $2.3 per share.

As mentioned on our last call, we organized a new subsidiary Oxbridge Re NS to function as a reinsurance sidecar. The new subsidiary is intended to increase the underwriting capacity of Oxbridge Reinsurance Limited. Oxbridge Re NS achieved successful licensing and officially commenced operations on June 1 of 2018.

The premise of the newly formed subsidiary is to issue participating notes for third party investors, the proceeds of which will be used for collateralized some of our reinsurance obligations. In return Oxbridge Re receives a marginal management fees in exchange for handling the portfolio as well as a share in the profitability.

We feel the opportunities represented by Oxbridge Re NS while being able to receive attractive returns in a loss-free year gives us the ability to diversify our revenue stream as well as risk. We believe overtime this could be accretive to shareholder value.

Moving forward we continue to underwrite contracts opportunistically while diversifying revenue streams and maintain a conservative long-term outlook. As always, we remain very appreciative of our patient and loyal shareholders, who have supported us over the years and continue to support us now.

We look forward to updating you on our progress in the upcoming months. We that, we are ready to open the call for question. Operator, please provide the appropriate instructions..

Operator:.

Thank you for joining us on today’s call. I especially want to thank our employees, business partners and investors for their continuing support. We look forward to updating you on our next call.

Operator?.

Before we conclude today's call, I would like to remind everyone that a recording of today's call will be available for replay via a link available in the Investors section of the company's website. Thank you for joining us today for our presentation. You may now disconnect..