Lotte Non-Life Insurance said on the 12th that it posted a net profit of 51.3 billion won last year, up 111.9% from the previous year's 24.2 billion won. Operating profit was 64.7 billion won last year, up 108.4% from the previous year's 31.1 billion won.

The balance of the contractual service margin (CSM), an insurer profitability metric, was 2.4749 trillion won at the end of last year, a slight increase from 2.3202 trillion won the previous year. The CSM added by new contracts last year was 412.2 billion won.

A view of the Lotte Non-Life Insurance headquarters in Namchang-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul. /Courtesy of Lotte Non-Life Insurance

Insurance operating profit came to 27.0 billion won. Investment operating profit was 37.7 billion won, swinging to a profit from a loss of 146.8 billion won the previous year. Lotte Non-Life Insurance said, "This is the result of improving fundamentals through rebalancing investment assets with a focus on safe assets," adding, "Since Oct. 2019, we have carried out structural improvements such as preemptive sales of revenue securities and securing safe assets such as bonds."

The risk-based capital ratio, which evaluates whether Lotte Non-Life Insurance can pay insurance claims at once, was 159.3% at the end of last year, up 39.4 percentage points from 119.9% at the end of March last year.

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