About Cabling Installation & Maintenance

Our mission: Bringing practical business and technical intelligence to today's structured cabling professionals

For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance is published by Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

Contact Cabling Installation & Maintenance

Editorial

Patrick McLaughlin

Serena Aburahma

Advertising and Sponsorship Sales

Peter Fretty - Vice President, Market Leader

Tim Carli - Business Development Manager

Brayden Hudspeth - Sales Development Representative

Subscriptions and Memberships

Subscribe to our newsletters and manage your subscriptions

Feedback/Problems

Send a message to our general in-box

 

AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings of Ascot Group Limited’s Core Operating Subsidiaries

AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a+” (Excellent) of Ascot Bermuda Limited (Ascot Bermuda) (Bermuda), as well as certain members of Ascot Group Limited (Ascot), collectively referred to as Ascot Insurance U.S. Group (Ascot U.S.). Concurrently, AM Best has affirmed the Long-Term Issue Credit Rating of “bbb+” (Good) on the USD 400 million, 4.25% fixed rate senior unsecured notes due 2030 and the USD 350 million, 6.349% fixed rate reset senior unsecured notes due 2035, issued by Ascot. The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable. (Please see below for a detailed list of companies and ratings.)

The ratings of Ascot Bermuda and Ascot U.S. reflect Ascot’s consolidated balance sheet strength, which AM Best assesses as very strong, as well as its adequate operating performance, neutral business profile and appropriate enterprise risk management. Additionally, Ascot receives rating enhancement in the form of lift from its parent, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), which is considered to be of superior financial strength and supportive of Ascot’s strategy.

AM Best views Ascot Bermuda and Ascot U.S. as strategically important to Ascot and fully integrated within the group’s operations and management. Ascot Bermuda is the group’s Bermuda-based (re)insurance platform, while Ascot U.S. provides the group with access to U.S. excess and surplus and admitted lines markets. Ascot U.S. entities are supported by a net worth maintenance agreement.

Ascot is a property and specialty (re)insurance group with gross written premium of USD 4.7 billion in 2024. Ascot U.S. and Ascot Bermuda provide diversification to the group’s underwriting portfolio, which historically had concentration toward U.S. property risks through its Lloyd’s syndicate. Ascot has a stable and experienced management team that has been strengthened as its business has grown.

The group’s balance sheet strength is underpinned by its risk-adjusted capitalisation that AM Best expects to be maintained comfortably at the strongest level, as measured by Best’s Capital Adequacy Ratio (BCAR), supported by prudent capital management. The balance sheet strength assessment benefits from the excellent financial flexibility offered by CPP Investments. Since acquiring Ascot Underwriting Holdings Limited in 2016, CPP Investments has made several capital injections to support the group’s growth, demonstrating its ongoing commitment.

Ascot has a track record of adequate underwriting performance, demonstrated by the group’s consolidated five-year (2020-2024) weighted average combined ratio of 97.6% (as calculated by AM Best). The main contributor to the group’s earnings, Ascot’s Syndicate 1414, achieved an average combined ratio of 90.5% over the same period, which was several percentage points better than the overall Lloyd’s market. Underwriting profitability in 2024 benefited from prudent risk selection and effective underwriting cycle management. AM Best expects the group to maintain its robust underwriting profitability across all business units. Overall earnings have been supported by the group’s solid investment income, which has reflected the high-interest-rate environment during the period.

The FSR of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term ICRs of “a+” (Excellent) for the following members of Ascot Insurance U.S. Group have been affirmed with a stable outlook:

  • Ascot Insurance Company
  • Ascot Specialty Insurance Company
  • Ascot Surety & Casualty Company
  • AmFed National Insurance Company
  • AmFed Casualty Insurance Company
  • AmFed Advantage Insurance Company

This press release relates to Credit Ratings that have been published on AM 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 AM Best’s Recent Rating Activity web page. For additional information regarding the use and limitations of Credit Rating opinions, please view Guide to Best’s Credit Ratings. For information on the proper use of Best’s Credit Ratings, Best’s Performance Assessments, Best’s Preliminary Credit Assessments and AM Best press releases, please view Guide to Proper Use of Best’s Ratings & Assessments.

AM Best is a global credit rating agency, news publisher and data analytics provider specialising in the insurance industry. Headquartered in the United States, the company does business in over 100 countries with regional offices in London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico City. For more information, visit www.ambest.com.

Copyright © 2025 by A.M. Best Rating Services, Inc. and/or its affiliates. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Contacts

Stock Quote API & Stock News API supplied by www.cloudquote.io
Quotes delayed at least 20 minutes.
By accessing this page, you agree to the following
Privacy Policy and Terms Of Service.