Aspen Insurance Holdings Completes $300 Million Share Repurchase Program

Business Wire, Nov 12, 2007

HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited ("Aspen") (NYSE: AHL) today announced that on November 9, 2007, it entered into an accelerated share repurchase program with Goldman, Sachs & Co. to buy back $50 million of Aspen's ordinary shares, completing the $300 million share repurchase program authorized by the Board of Directors and announced on November 8, 2006. The agreement includes collar provisions that establish the minimum and maximum numbers of shares to be repurchased.

Based on Aspen's closing share price on November 9, 2007, the $50 million share repurchase represents approximately two percent of the Company's total issued ordinary shares.

Richard Houghton, Chief Financial Officer of Aspen, said, "Aspen is committed to actively managing its capital throughout the insurance cycle to finance the business and deliver attractive investor returns. We are confident about our outlook, which is reflected by our completion of this substantial repurchase program."

About Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited

Aspen provides reinsurance and insurance coverage to clients in various domestic and global markets through wholly-owned subsidiaries and offices in Bermuda, France, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. For the nine months ended September 30, 2007, Aspen reported gross written premiums of $1.5 billion, net income of $353.8 million and total assets of $7.3 billion. For more information about Aspen, please visit www.aspen.bm.

Application of the Safe Harbor of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:

This press release contains written, and Aspen's officers may make related oral, "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws regarding its capital management plans, its outlook and financial results. These statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include all statements that do not relate solely to historical or current facts, and can be identified by the use of words such as "expect," "intend," "plan," "believe," "project," "anticipate," "seek," "will," "estimate," "may," "continue," and similar expressions of a future or forward-looking nature.

All forward-looking statements rely on a number of assumptions, estimates and data concerning future results and events and are subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside Aspen's control that could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. For a detailed description of uncertainties and other factors that could impact the forward-looking statements in this release, please see the "Risk Factors" section in Aspen's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 22, 2007.