(Bloomberg) — Athene Holding Ltd., the insurer with ties to Apollo Global Management LLC, said it expects to remediate a flaw in its accounting by early next year as management plans for an initial public offering.
"A tremendous amount of work has been completed on the actuarial material weakness, and testing is under way" to address the shortcomings, Chief Financial Officer Martin Klein said Thursday in a presentation discussing quarterly results. "We plan to be able to downgrade this to a significant deficiency early in '16, after the completion of testing."
Chief Executive Officer Jim Belardi is working to improve financial reporting after postponing an IPO that was initially targeted for this year. He now plans to file a prospectus by June 30, with help from Klein, who was hired in October from Genworth Financial Inc.
