W. R. Berkley Corporation's (WRB) CEO Rob Berkley on Q1 2022 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

W. R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE:WRB) Q1 2022 Earnings Conference Call April 25, 2022 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Rob Berkley - President and CEO

Bill Berkley - Executive Chair

Rich Baio - Group Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Elyse Greenspan - Wells Fargo

Mark Hughes - Truist

Michael Phillips - Morgan Stanley

Yaron Kinar - Jefferies

Ryan Tunis - Autonomous Research

Alex Scott - Goldman Sachs

Meyer Shields - KBW

David Motemaden - Evercore

Josh Shanker - Bank of America

Brian Meredith - UBS

Operator

Good day, and welcome to the W.R. Berkley Corporation’s First Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. Today’s conference call is being recorded.

The speakers’ remarks may contain forward-looking statements. Some of the forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking words including without limitation, believe, expects, or estimates.

We caution you that such forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a representation by us that the future plans, estimates, or expectations contemplated by us will, in fact, be achieved.

Please refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and our other filings made with the SEC for a description of the business environment in which we operate and the important factors that may immaterially affect our results.

W. R. Berkley Corporation is not under any obligation and expressly disclaims any such obligation to update or alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Rob Berkley. Please go ahead, sir.

Rob Berkley

Emma, thank you very much and good afternoon all and thank you for finding time to join us for our Q1 call. On this end of the call in addition to myself, you also have Bill Berkley, Executive Chair; as well as Rich Baio, our Group CFO.

We are going to follow the usual agenda, where I am in short order, going to hand it over to Rich. He’s going to walk through the highlights of the quarter. Then once he’s completed his comments, I will tag along with a few of my own observations and shortly thereafter we will be opening it up for Q&A and happy to take the conversation in any direction participants would like to do so.