secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     BERKLEY W R CORP (WRB)
CIK:        0000011544
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-04-20T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000011544-23-000006
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

W.R. Berkley Q1 net income falls to $294M from $591M; ROE 17.4%
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- Net income $294.1M ($1.06 diluted EPS), down from $590.6M ($2.12) YoY.
- Operating income $276.0M ($1.00 EPS) vs $306.9M ($1.10) in prior year.
- Net investment income $223.4M, up 28.8%; core portfolio +80.7%.
- Combined ratio 90.6% (87.7% ex-cat); prior-year cat losses ~$24M.
- Returned $293.8M to shareholders: $132.3M special dividend, $135.2M buybacks.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/11544/000001154423000006/0000011544-23-000006-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/11544/000001154423000006/wrb-20230420.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000011544-23-000006

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