Arch Capital Group Ltd.

Bermuda-based specialty insurer, reinsurer, and mortgage insurance provider

What Arch Capital does

Arch Capital sells insurance to businesses, such as coverage for commercial vehicles, property, workers' injuries and professional liability. It also sells reinsurance, which is insurance for other insurance companies, and mortgage insurance, which protects lenders if homeowners stop paying their loans. It operates in the U.S., Canada, Bermuda, the U.K., Europe and Australia.

How Arch Capital makes money

Arch collects premiums for taking on insurance, reinsurance and mortgage credit risk, and it earns an underwriting profit when claims and expenses come in below those premiums. It sells mainly through licensed independent retail and wholesale brokers.

Products & services

• Specialty commercial insurance (casualty, property, professional liability)
• Workers compensation and commercial auto insurance
• Property catastrophe and casualty reinsurance
• Marine and aviation reinsurance
• U.S. primary mortgage insurance on Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac loans
• Credit-risk transfer and international mortgage reinsurance