secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     BERKLEY W R CORP (WRB)
CIK:        0000011544
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-04-25T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000011544-22-000013
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Q1 net income $591M ($2.12/sh), up 157%; record underwriting income $274M; ROE 35.5%
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- Net income $590.6M, diluted EPS $2.12, vs $0.82 YoY, up 157%.
- Record quarterly underwriting income $274.4M; combined ratio 87.8% with $28.8M catastrophe losses.
- Net premiums written grew 18% to a record $2.4B; rate increases above loss cost trends.
- Net investment gain $366.3M, largely from sale of London real estate investment (pretax >$300M).
- Book value per share grew 3.5% before dividends, aided by short investment duration.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/11544/000001154422000013/0000011544-22-000013-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/11544/000001154422000013/wrb-20220425.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000011544-22-000013

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