Latest PartnerRe Headlines
All the headlines from our PartnerRe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People Moves: Brit Re Names Partner Re’s Ex-CEO Bonneau as Non-Executive Director; Optio Group Taps AXA’s Soni as Group CEO
Jun 27 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Brit Re and the managing general agent Optio Group. A summary of these new hires follows here. Brit Re Names Partner Re’s Ex-CEO Bonneau as...
People Moves: Carpenter’s Global Specialties Unit Taps Partner Re’s Chu for Credit, Bond & Political Risk Team
Apr 11 2024 // Carpenter’s Global Specialties Unit Taps Partner Re’s Chu for Credit, Bond & Political Risk Guy Carpenter, the reinsurance business of Marsh McLennan, announced the appointment of Richard Chu as managing...
Meyenhofer to Become PartnerRe’s CEO as Bonneau Retires; Colello Named President
Jan 9 2024 // PartnerRe Ltd. announced that effective April 1, 2024, Jacques Bonneau will retire from the company and Philippe Meyenhofer will succeed him as chief executive officer and take his place on the Board of Directors. As part...
BMS Taps Former PartnerRe CEO Clarke as Chair, Completes Investment From Eurazeo
Sep 29 2023 // BMS Group, the London-based independent specialty re/insurance broker, announced it has appointed reinsurance executive, Emmanuel Clarke, as chairman, effective Sept. 28, 2023. Clarke succeeds John Hastings-Bass, who...
People Moves: Mosaic Builds Team of Underwriting Specialists in Canada; Everest Re Taps PartnerRe’s Schiattone as Global Head of Financial Risk
Sep 12 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Mosaic and Everest Reinsurance. A summary of these new hires follows here. Mosaic Expands Team of Underwriting Specialists in Canada Mosaic Insurance has...
People Moves: Arch Re Appoints Former PartnerRe CUO Schriber as President; WTW Taps Marsh’s Clarke as President, Risk & Broking, Garrard Named Unit’s Chairman
Jul 25 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Arch Reinsurance Co. and Willis Towers Watson (WTW). A summary of these new hires follows here. Arch Re Co. Appoints Former PartnerRe CUO Schriber as...
AM Best Gives A+ Rating to PartnerRe’s New MGA-Driven Insurance Ops
Dec 29 2022 // AM Best has assigned an A+ financial strength rating of A+ (Superior) to PartnerRe Insurance Solutions Bermuda Ltd. (PartnerRe Ins Solutions BM Ltd), a newly added member of PartnerRe Ltd. The ratings outlook is...
EXOR, Again, Agrees to Sell PartnerRe to France’s Covéa for $9 Billion (€7.8 Billion)
Dec 17 2021 // French mutual insurer Covéa and EXOR, a holding company controlled by the Agnelli family, have officially agreed to a delayed deal in which Covéa will acquire the global reinsurer PartnerRe for cash consideration of...
EXOR Agrees to Sell PartnerRe to Covéa for $9B, Reviving Last Year’s Collapsed Deal
Oct 29 2021 // The Agnelli family’s EXOR NV agreed to sell its PartnerRe reinsurance unit to France’s Covéa for $9 billion, reviving a transaction that collapsed at the onset of the pandemic last year. Talks broke down in...
EXOR Restarts Talks With Insurer Covéa Over Scrapped $9B Sale of PartnerRe: Report
Oct 25 2021 // EXOR, the holding company of Italy’s Agnelli family, has restarted talks with French insurer Covéa over a possible sale of reinsurer PartnerRe, Il Sole 24 Ore reported on Saturday, after the deal was scrapped last...
MS Amlin AG Enters Agriculture Reinsurance Market, Hiring Bektleuov From PartnerRe
Sep 29 2021 // MS Amlin AG (MS AAG), the global reinsurer, announced its entry into the agriculture reinsurance market with the hire of Rinat Bektleuov as product group lead underwriter. Bektleuov joined the business in August 2021 and...
People Moves: PartnerRe’s Hanhart to AXIS Re; Zurich Names Verkerk to New Role of Chief Platform Officer; PwC’s Maxwell to MS Amlin as CRO
Jul 2 2021 // These International People Moves include appointments at AXIS Re, Zurich Insurance Group and MS Amlin. Details of these new hires follows. AXIS Re, the reinsurance business segment of AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd., announced...
People Moves: PartnerRe’s Clarke Re-Emerges at Tremor; WTW’s Monat to Mosaic; Graham Leads AIRMIC; Lancashire’s Richardson to Aeolus
Apr 8 2021 // Emmanuel Clarke This wrap-up of International People Moves details recent appointments at Tremor Technologies, Mosaic, AIRMIC and Aeolus Capital Management Ltd. A summary of these new hires follows. Tremor...
PartnerRe Appoints Hiscox’s Hughes as CEO Third Party Capital
Oct 22 2020 // PartnerRe Ltd. announced that Andrew Hughes will join PartnerRe in the new role of CEO, Third Party Capital, subject to immigration approval. Hughes will be responsible for further developing and growing PartnerRe’s...
EXOR and Covéa ‘Normalize’ Relations After Failed PartnerRe Deal
Aug 4 2020 // Italy’s EXOR said on Monday that French insurer Covéa had agreed to invest a total of 1.5 billion euros ($1.8 billion), partly in entities managed by PartnerRe, after walking away from a deal to buy the reinsurer...
PartnerRe Names Bonneau as President and CEO as Clarke Exits
Jul 28 2020 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. announced it has appointed industry veteran Jacques Bonneau as its president and chief executive officer effective immediately. Bonneau, who will be based in the company’s headquarter in...
Global Re Forum Taps PartnerRe’s Clarke as Chair, Hannover Re’s Henchoz as Vice Chair
Jun 8 2020 // The Global Reinsurance Forum (GRF) has appointed Emmanuel Clarke, president and CEO of PartnerRe for a two-year term. He succeeds Kevin J. O’Donnell, CEO of RenaissanceRe, who became chairman in 2018. Jean-Jacques...
PartnerRe Taps Meyenhofer as CEO Specialty Lines, Haft as CEO Global Cat
May 27 2020 // PartnerRe announced that the company will change responsibilities in its executive leadership for Specialty Lines and will create the new role of CEO Global Cat. Effective June 1, Philippe Meyenhofer will be appointed CEO...
Exor Plays Hardball with French Insurer Covéa as PartnerRe Deal Collapses: Opinion
May 14 2020 // Renege on a deal with the Agnellis and you can expect to pay for it. Scion John Elkann has refused to renegotiate the Italian family’s $9 billion sale of its reinsurance business after the buyer, French mutual...
French Mutual Covéa Scraps $9 Billion Purchase of PartnerRe from Exor
May 12 2020 // French insurer Covéa has walked away from its planned $9 billion purchase of PartnerRe, the Bermuda-based reinsurer owned by Exor, the holding firm of Italy’s Agnelli family, saying it could no longer buy under the...
