Information and other revenues were $264.3 million and $500.3 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, increases of $23.4 million, or 9.7%, and $42.2 million, or 9.2%, when compared with the respective periods of the prior year. The increases were primarily due to an increase in demand for uninsured products and services in the Company's Canadian operations and demand for the Company’s information products.
Net investment income totaled $147.1 million and $284.8 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, increases of $21.4 million, or 17.0%, and $42.4 million, or 17.5%, when compared with the respective periods of the prior year. The increases were primarily driven by increases in interest income from the Company’s investment portfolio.
Net investment losses of $5.4 million and $8.9 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, were primarily attributable to asset impairments totaling $35.5 million, which were partially offset by changes in the fair values of marketable equity securities. Net investment gains of $6.0 million and $24.9 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively, were primarily attributable to changes in the fair values of marketable equity securities, partially offset by losses recognized on sales of debt securities.
Personnel costs were $523.0 million and $1.0 billion for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, increases of $37.4 million, or 7.7%, and $69.7 million, or 7.4%, when compared with the respective periods of the prior year. The increases were primarily attributable to higher incentive compensation expense due to higher revenue and profitability, and higher salary, employee benefits, payroll tax, severance and share-based compensation expense.
Agents retained $573.5 million and $1.1 billion of title premiums generated by agency operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, which compares with $492.2 million and $940.0 million for the respective periods of the prior year. The percentage of title premiums retained by agents was 80.0% and 80.2% for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, compared to 79.9% and 79.7% for the respective periods of the prior year.
Other operating expenses were $277.8 million and $524.2 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, increases of $34.2 million, or 14.0%, and $46.9 million, or 9.8%, when compared with the respective periods of the prior year. The increases were primarily due to higher production expenses on higher volumes and increases in software, travel, professional services and other operating expenses. The increase for the six months ended June 30, 2025 was partially offset by a credit related to the release of a $5.7 million acquisition-related incentive obligation in the current year and also reflects the non-recurrence of a prior year out-of-period adjustment that totaled $6.2 million.
The provision for policy losses and other claims, expressed as a percentage of title insurance premiums and escrow fees, was 3.0% for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024. The 3.0% loss provision rate for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 reflects an ultimate loss rate of 3.75% for the 2025 policy year and reserve releases of 0.75%, or $9.9 million and $18.3 million, respectively, for prior policy years, all based on title insurance premiums and escrow fees for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025. The 3.0% loss provision rate for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024 reflected an ultimate loss rate of 3.75% for the 2024 policy year and reserve releases of 0.75%, or $8.6 million and $15.9 million, respectively, for prior policy years, all based on title insurance premiums and escrow fees for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024.
Depreciation and amortization expense was $51.6 million and $102.8 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, increases of $0.7 million, or 1.4%, and $3.1 million, or 3.1%, when compared with the respective periods of the prior year. The increases were primarily due to higher amortization of capitalized software from recently deployed digital settlement products.
Premium taxes were $18.0 million and $34.3 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, increases of $3.7 million, or 25.9%, and $7.1 million, or 26.1%, when compared with the respective periods of the prior year. Premium taxes as a percentage of title insurance premiums and escrow fees were 1.4% for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 1.2% and 1.3% for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively.
Interest expense was $22.8 million and $42.8 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, decreases of $0.6 million, or 2.6%, and $3.0 million, or 6.6%, when compared with the respective periods of the prior year. The decreases were primarily attributable to lower interest expense in the Company’s warehouse lending business.
Pretax margins for the title insurance business reflect the high cost of performing the essential services required before insuring title, whereas the corresponding revenues are subject to regulatory and competitive pricing restraints. Due to the relatively high proportion of fixed costs in the title insurance business, pretax margins generally improve as closed order volumes increase.