Ardonagh Group reports 26.6% rise in income for 2019

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The Ardonagh Group has announces its financial highlights for the twelve months to 31st December 2019.  

Income rose by 26.6% to £667.5m whilst operational integration and a focus on growth initiatives delivered a 66.4% increase in Adjusted EBITDA to £183.4m. 

Chairman John Tiner commented: “Ardonagh’s resolute commitment to achieving operational efficiency, growing new areas of the business and effectively integrating accretive acquisitions shines through in the substantial profitable growth reported in 2019. 

“As the investment in transformational spend drew to a close as planned, underlying profitability has risen sharply with reported EBITDA up by 288% to £115.3 million and adjusted EBITDA rising by 66% to £183.4 million. The Group finished the year with a liquidity position of £181.7m. 

“Our highly diversified product portfolio, scale, efficiency and flexible operating platforms limits our reliance on any single part of the UK economy, leaving us in a in a strong position from which to weather the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

“Insurance broking is an essential sector and the need for trusted risk advice is more important than ever. In these uncertain times, we remain very confident in the strength and resilience of our business.”

Platform highlights

Our Advisory platform completed the roll out of Acturis in 2019. All in scope branches have now completed a full annual renewal cycle on a single system. We launched a new corporate practice with has won the largest UK clients to date. 

In Health, we integrated Chase Templeton and The Health Insurance Group with Towergate Health and Protection into what is now a six-site business with 25,000 SME clients, making it the largest broker in the field. 

We also made significant progress in our placement strategy to reduce the number of carriers and deliver better outcomes for clients. 

In Retail we finished the year with the successful integration of Swinton ahead of plan with significant cost reductions achieved during the year. The business has been transformed by a move onto Atlanta’s digital platform, a simplified suite of products and the addition of new panel members. Paymentshield achieved a number one market share of new business with every major IFA network whilst Schemes & Programmes withdrew from unprofitable business to focus on higher-margin niche markets. 

Specialty continued to recruit a number of leaders in niche and specialist areas whilst focusing on modernising its operating model, reducing costs, standardising processes, digitising its front-end portfolio offerings. 

Chief Executive Officer David Ross said: 

“Ardonagh has become an established force in the market. The last year has seen a continued focus on execution and delivery of our strategy, one which has been fully affirmed by the Group’s major shareholders decision to increase their holdings via a £92 million investment in May. 

2019 has been a significant point in our history as we shifted from building a core platform to capitalising on the opportunities its creation has enabled. 

2019 already seems like a long time ago. As we look ahead to a period of domestic and global uncertainty, all the work that has taken place since the formation of the Group to upgrade our systems, diversify our business and connect our people and clients leaves us well positioned to adapt and remain resilient. We will continue to serve our clients however we best can.”

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