A.M. Best Assigns Issue Credit Rating to Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited’s Forthcoming Senior Unsecured
Notes
A.M. Best has assigned a Long-Term Issue Credit Rating of “bbb” to Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited’s (Fairfax)
(Toronto, Canada) [TSX:FFH and FFH.U] recently announced CAD 450 million in aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes
due 2026. The senior unsecured notes will be obligations of Fairfax and pay an annual fixed interest rate of 4.70%. The outlook
assigned to the Credit Rating (rating) is stable.
Following the senior notes issue, financial leverage and coverage measures at Fairfax are supportive of the assigned ratings.
Fairfax intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to refinance or repay outstanding debt or other corporate obligations of
Fairfax and its subsidiaries and for general corporate purposes. This may include the redemption or repurchase of certain of
Fairfax’s previously issued senior unsecured notes.
This press release relates to Credit Ratings that have been published on A.M. Best’s website. For all rating information
relating to the release and pertinent disclosures, including details of the office responsible for issuing each of the individual
ratings referenced in this release, please see A.M. Best’s Recent Rating Activity web page. For additional information regarding the use and limitations of Credit
Rating opinions, please view Understanding Best’s Credit Ratings.
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