PartnerRe News

PartnerRe’s $6.9B Sale to EXOR Completed; Fitch Issues Downgrade

PrtnerRe’s new owner EXOR has closed its $6.9 billion acquisition of the Bermuda-based reinsurer, and Fitch Ratings quickly responded with a ratings downgrade that reflects some pessimism over the transaction and the broader market. Fitch said it downgraded PartnerRe’s insurer …

AXIS Capital Reports Q4 Operating Income of $120M, Level with Q4 2014

AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. reported net income available to common shareholders for the fourth quarter of 2015 of $135 million, or $1.39 per diluted common share, compared with net income of $164 million, or $1.60 per diluted common share, for …

PartnerRe’s Shareholders Approve Acquisition by EXOR

PartnerRe Ltd. announced Thursday that its shareholders voted to approve the proposed acquisition of the company by EXOR at a special general meeting of shareholders held at the company’s offices in Bermuda. The acquisition of PartnerRe Ltd. by EXOR was …

Buffett’s Favored Banker, Trott, Plans European Expansion with London Office

Warren Buffett’s favored banker, Byron Trott, is planning to expand his investment and financial advisory firm BDT Capital Partners in Europe with a London office to attract billionaire clients, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Chicago-based BDT, founded in …

Swiss Re Estimates Its Tianjin Port Explosion Losses Will Hit $250 Million

Swiss Re AG, the world’s second-largest reinsurer, posted a 13 percent increase in third-quarter profit after allowing for $250 million in losses from the chemical warehouse explosions in the Chinese city of Tianjin in mid- August. Net income climbed $1.4 …

Aspen Estimates Tianjin Explosion to Cost $30 Million; Nat Cats Total $20 Million

Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited estimates its Aspen Re subsidiary lost approximately $50 million from the August 12 explosion in the Port of Tianjin, China, and from natural catastrophes during the third quarter of 2015. Approximately $30 million of these …

PartnerRe Estimates China’s Tianjin Explosions to Cost Between $50m and $70M

PartnerRe Ltd. estimates that losses from the August explosion in China’s Port of Tianjin will be between $50 million and $70 million pre-tax and net of retrocession and reinstatement premiums. These losses will be recorded in the company’s third quarter …

Europe’s Rich Families – Such as EXOR’s Agnellis – Turn Dealmakers

John Elkann, the leader of Italy’s billionaire Agnelli family, has a way of preparing his relatives for a big takeover battle that you won’t see at your everyday company. In June, he gathered two branches of the prominent Italian family …

PartnerRe Files Definitive Proxy to Seal Acquisition by EXOR

Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. announced that a Special General Meeting of shareholders will take place on Thursday, November 19, 2015 to vote on the previously announced merger agreement between PartnerRe and EXOR, and all related transactions. The company filed a “Definitive …

No Competing Offers to EXOR Deal Received by PartnerRe

PartnerRe Ltd., the reinsurer that agreed to a takeover by Italy’s EXOR SpA in August, said the period to contact other potential bidders has ended with no other offers. “None of the third parties contacted during this process provided a …