In January-June 2025, the insurance company Ukrainian Insurance Group (UIG, Kyiv) collected UAH 1.932 billion in gross premiums, which is 37.14% more than in the same period last year, with net premiums amounting to UAH 1.738 billion (+51.54%).
This was reported on the website of the rating agency Standard-Rating, which confirmed the insurance company’s financial stability/credit rating at “uaAA+” based on the results of the reporting period.
At the same time, income from individuals during this period increased by 64.20% to UAH 1.188 billion, while income from reinsurers decreased by 25.78% to UAH 3.158 million. At the end of the first half of 2025, individuals accounted for 61.51% of the company’s gross premiums, while reinsurers accounted for 0.16%.
Insurance payments sent to reinsurers in the first half of 2025 decreased by 25.99% to UAH 193.735 million compared to the same period last year. Thus, the share of reinsurance companies in insurance premiums decreased by 8.55 percentage points (pp) to 10.03%.
The volume of insurance payments and reimbursements made by the USG in the first half of 2025 amounted to UAH 900.708 million, which is 50.41% higher than in January-June 2024. Thus, the level of payments increased by 4.12 p.p. to 46.62%.
The company’s operating profit for the reporting period fell to UAH 19.601 million (-46.99%), while net profit decreased to UAH 85.324 million (-9.5%).
As of July 1, 2025, the insurance company’s assets increased by 16.44% to UAH 3.480 billion, and its equity capital by 13.62% to UAH 707.466 million. Liabilities showed an increase of 17.18% and rose to UAH 2.773 billion, while cash and cash equivalents grew by 82.80% to UAH 423.46 million.
RA notes that at the beginning of the third quarter of 2025, the company had a satisfactory level of capitalization (25.52%), and cash covered 15.27% of its liabilities. The insurer formed a portfolio of financial investments worth UAH 1.891 billion, consisting of government bonds and government bonds with a fixed coupon (81.37% of the portfolio) and deposits in banks with high credit ratings (18.63%). As of July 1, 2025, liquid assets covered 83.47% of the insurer’s liabilities.
As reported, the controlling shareholder of IC USG is the Vienna Insurance Group, an international insurance group headquartered in Austria, which is represented by 50 companies in 30 countries and is the leader in the insurance market of Central and Eastern Europe.
Insurance company Universal (Kyiv) collected UAH 1.614 billion in gross insurance premiums in January-June 2025, which is 34.45% more than in the same period of 2024, according to the website of the rating agency Standard-Rating.
The agency updated the credit rating/financial stability (reliability) rating of Universalna Insurance Company at “uaAAА” on the national scale based on an analysis of its performance during the specified period.
According to the published data, income from individuals increased by 38.37% to UAH 737.560 million, while income from reinsurers, on the contrary, decreased by 53.26% to UAH 3.489 million. Thus, at the end of the first half of 2025, legal entities prevailed in the company’s client portfolio.
Insurance payments sent to reinsurers in the first half of 2025 increased by 59.05% to UAH 87.637 million compared to the same period in 2024, and the reinsurers’ share in insurance premiums increased by 0.84 percentage points to 5.43%.
During the period, the insurer’s net premiums increased by 33.27% to UAH 1.526 billion, while net earned premiums showed an increase of 31.99% to UAH 1.322 billion.
The volume of insurance payments made by IC Universalna in the first half of 2025 increased by 27.52% compared to the same period in 2024 and amounted to UAH 538.405 million, while the level of payments decreased by 1.81 percentage points to 33.37%.
The insurer’s operating profit for the first six months of 2025 increased by 21.4% compared to the same period in 2024, to UAH 146.152 million, while net profit increased by 19.89%, to UAH 151.910 million.
As of July 1, 2025, the company’s assets grew by 10.73% to UAH 2.155 billion, equity capital increased by 15.59% to UAH 1.126 billion due to an increase in retained earnings, liabilities increased by 5.85% to UAH 1.029 billion, cash and cash equivalents increased by 4.90% to UAH 603.902 million.
RA also reports that as of the reporting date, the company was very well provided with equity capital, which exceeded its liabilities by 9.45%. In addition, the insurance company formed a portfolio of current financial investments in liquid instruments in the amount of UAH 1.363 billion, which consisted of bank deposits (UAH 1.167 billion) and government bonds (UAH 195.818 million).
As of the beginning of the third quarter of 2025, cash and cash equivalents covered 58.69% of IC Universalna’s liabilities, and liquid assets (cash, bank deposits, and government bonds) exceeded the insurer’s liabilities by 1.75 times.
The main shareholder of IC “Universalna” is Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (Canada), a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, is primarily engaged in accident insurance, property insurance, and investment management.
In January-June 2025, Express Insurance (Kyiv) collected insurance premiums in the amount of UAH 560.9 million, which is 32% more than in the same period of 2024, according to the insurer’s website.
Premiums under hull insurance contracts for this period amounted to UAH 380.4 million, which is UAH 44.9 million, or 13.4%, more than in January-June 2024, for MTPL – UAH 167.7 million (+90.6%), for other types of insurance – UAH 12.7 million.
The company reports that in January-June 2025, the total amount of insurance claims for insured events amounted to UAH 223 million. This includes UAH 176.3 million in payments to motor hull insurance customers and UAH 43.3 million to victims of motor TPL insurance.
As reported, as of March 31, 2025, the assets of Express Insurance amounted to UAH 940.6 million, which is UAH 149.1 million more than in 2024, their share in cash amounted to 89%, which ensures the company’s operational ability to pay compensation for insured events.
Express Insurance was founded in 2008 and is part of the UkrAVTO group of companies. The company specializes in automobile insurance. The consistently high speed of claims settlement in the IC is ensured by optimal interaction with partner service stations.
Since April 2012, Express Insurance has been an associate member of the Motor Transport Insurance Bureau of Ukraine.
In January-September 2023, ALC Insurance Company ARX Life (ARX Life, Kyiv) collected insurance premiums in the amount of UAH 234.7 million, which is 18.71% more than in the same period of 2022, according to the website of RA Standard Rating.
According to the RA’s information on updating the company’s credit rating/financial strength (reliability) rating at uaAAAA according to the national scale, the volume of payments and reimbursements made by the insurer for the first nine months of 2023 increased by 31% to UAH 49.426 million compared to the same period in 2022. Thus, the insurer’s claims ratio increased by 1.97 p.p. to 21.06%.
The insurer’s acquisition expenses for the first nine months of 2023 increased by 5.15% compared to the same period in 2022 – up to UAH 117.201 million.
According to the results of January-September, the company received a net profit of UAH 53.214 million, which is 3.09 times more than the profit received in the first nine months of 2022.
As of September 30, 2023, the insurer’s assets increased by 24.42% to UAH 287.277 million, equity increased by 44.46% to UAH 172.906 million, liabilities showed an increase of 2.86% to UAH 114.371 million, cash and cash equivalents decreased by 30.90% to UAH 45.745 million.
Thus, as of the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2023, the company had a very high level of capitalization (151.18%) and a sufficient level of coverage of its liabilities by cash and cash equivalents (40.00%).
At the same time, the RA notes that as of October 1, 2023, the insurer made financial investments in the amount of UAH 216.102 million, which consisted of government bonds (81.18%), government bonds (9.57%) and deposits in banks (9.25%).
ARX Life, like ARX, is part of the international insurance holding Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. ARX Life is among the top 10 companies in the life insurance market in Ukraine.
INGO Life Insurance Company (Kyiv) in January-June 2020 collected UAH 23.7 million of insurance premiums, which is 4.4% more compared to the same period a year earlier, the insurer said in a press release.
According to the report, the total amount of paid insurance claim fees by the company for this period was UAH 6.2 million, of which for death cases some UAH 286,500, for cases of disability some UAH 394,200, for cases of hospitalization and temporary loss of working capacity some UAH 1.6 million, due to critical illness some UAH 3.648 million.
It is also indicated that in the first half of the year, payments were made under long-term accumulative insurance contracts related to the survival of the insured person until the end of the insurance period for a total amount of UAH 224,400.
The largest payments for the first quarter were UAH 1 million, UAH 734,300 and UAH 605,300 in connection with the diagnosis of a critical illness.
In November 2007, INGO Life received a perpetual license to carry out life insurance activities. Since April 26, 2013, INGO Life has been representing the interests of Generali Employee Benefits (GEB) in Ukraine.