Good morning. My name is Madison, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. First Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. After the prepared remarks, we will open the call for your questions. Instructions will be given at that time. Lastly, if you should need operator assistance, please press 0. Thank you. I will now turn the call over to Keith McCue, Senior Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Madison. Good morning, and welcome to RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.'s first quarter earnings conference call. Joining me today to discuss our results are Kevin O'Donnell, President and Chief Executive Officer; Bob Qutub, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and David Marra, Executive Vice President and Group Chief Underwriting Officer. First, some housekeeping matters. Our discussion today will include forward-looking statements, including new and updated expectations for our business and results of operations. It's important to note that actual results may differ materially from the expectations shared today. Additional information regarding the factors shaping these outcomes can be found in our SEC filings and in our earnings release. During today's call, we will also present non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations to GAAP metrics and other information concerning non-GAAP measures may be found in our earnings release and financial supplement, which are available on our website at renre.com. And now I'd like to turn the call over to Kevin.

Thanks, Keith. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining today's call. I want to begin the call today by acknowledging the unprecedented degree of uncertainty in the broader economic environment. The institutions and norms of the postwar period are increasingly being questioned and in some instances disrupted. There are few, if any, historic analogs to what we are currently experiencing. Against this backdrop, we believe RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. is positioned to outperform. We have limited exposure to the political and economic shocks reverberating around the world. Our business is best described as anti-correlated to the current macroeconomic environment, especially when compared to business models that require predictability and consistency. What do I mean by this? As the world becomes more volatile and the value of many assets decrease, we become more valuable. We are paid to assume volatility and are intentionally designed to withstand it. Consequently, we seek the volatility that others shun. And as a result, increased volatility for us equates to greater opportunity. In an increasingly volatile world, our customers should want more of the protection that we provide and be willing to pay more for this protection. This is the type of environment where our business can thrive. With the capital currently fixated on tariffs, inflation, and recession risk, I'd like to address head-on their expected impact or lack thereof on our business. As a financial services provider, we do not require inputs or produce products that are subject to trade tariffs. Our property catastrophe business is not directly impacted by tariffs and is highly recession-resistant. This is also true for traditional casualty lines that we write and most of our specialty lines. The largest risks that we protect against, such as hurricanes and earthquakes, are not correlated to financial cycles. They need to be protected against in good economic times as well as in bad. And as you know, we are one of the largest providers of this protection. Of course, the potential for elevated inflation could increase the cost of rebuilding after large natural catastrophes. Post-event loss inflation is something we include in all of our property models. To the extent that tariffs and inflation exacerbate demand surge, we have the tools to price for the impact. There are a few niche specialty lines that may be directly impacted by tariffs or a reduction in trade. The most obvious are trade credit and political risk. I say may be impacted because so far none of them appear to be. Furthermore, these lines have many built-in protections to limit exposure to systemic shock. Regarding recession risk, previous downturns are particularly instructive in demonstrating our immunity to business cycle disruptions. For the most part, insurance is a necessary or required purchase. And by extension, demand for reinsurance will persist. In previous recessions, our reinsurance premiums were largely unaffected. A recession scenario could, of course, impact our investments. That said, we have positioned our portfolio relatively conservatively in order to protect against the potential for recession. As Bob will cover in more detail, most of our investments are in high-quality fixed-income securities with relatively limited exposure to both high yield and equities. In fact, we have used the recent dislocations as an opportunity to increase our allocations to risk assets such as equities and high yield. We also had some hedges to inflation and geopolitical risk in place, such as being long gold futures. This supported our strong mark-to-market performance this quarter and highlights our broader and integrated approach to portfolio construction across the entire balance sheet. Shifting now to a discussion of the first quarter. The world experienced multiple large catastrophes, including California wildfires and the American Airlines tragedy. Against this backdrop, our performance this quarter was strong. In an environment categorized by significant capital market disruptions and elevated first-quarter catastrophes, we reported a modest operating loss. On a net GAAP basis, which drives book value, we made a profit. This was due to the benefit of our diversification and the favorable impact of mark-to-market gains in our investment portfolio. As a result, our primary metric, tangible book value per share plus accumulated dividends, increased quarter over quarter despite the catastrophe losses and return of $380 million to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases. It's worth taking a step back to put our performance this quarter into perspective. As we have increased income diversification over the past two decades, we have reduced the impact of large loss activity on our results. Losses that used to impact annual results to a significant extent now only impact quarterly results to a limited extent. For example, in 2005, the year of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, we recorded a net negative impact from large events of $892 million, which was 82 percentage points on our actual combined ratio, and resulted in an annual operating return on equity of negative 13%. In 2017, the year of Hurricane Harvey, Irma, and Maria as well as California wildfires, we recorded a net negative impact from large events of $720 million, which was 59 percentage points on our annual combined ratio, and resulted in an annual operating return on equity of negative 8%. In 2022, the year of Hurricane Ian and winter storm Elliott, we recorded a net negative impact from large events of $808 million, which was 20 percentage points on our annual combined ratio, but this time resulted in an annual operating return on equity of positive 6%. Contrast these annual results with the first quarter of 2025. Our after-tax net negative impact was $700 million. This is similar in absolute magnitude to the losses we experienced in each of the previous years I just described. It added about 53 percentage points to our quarterly combined ratio. Hypothetically, this works out to 13 points on our annual combined ratio. In addition, we reported an operating return on equity in the quarter of negative 3%, and assuming average cat activity for the remainder of the year, we remain on track to deliver solid full-year ROE. So you can see a clear trend. Similarly sized losses have had a reduced impact on our combined ratio over the years, declining from 82% in 2005 to 59% in 2017 and 20% in 2022 to now 13%. At the same time, operating returns on equity have consistently increased. We believe this chronology powerfully demonstrates the strength of our three drivers of profit in times of extreme events and macroeconomic instability, in other words, anti-correlation. Bob and David will address renewals and our go-forward outlook in more detail shortly. But before turning it over, I'd like to share a few comments on our approach to business and capital management overall. To begin, the fact that the wildfires occurred in the first quarter does not change our strategy for the year. Large events occur randomly over time, and the fact that they occurred in January should not and does not impact strategic decision-making any more than if they occurred in December. Reinsurance pricing remains attractive, there is ample latent demand in markets, and our focus is squarely on continuing to grow business where it makes sense. That said, we believe the best strategy to grow tangible book value per share in the current environment is to preserve margin. Our willingness and ability to assume the risk that others shun is best channeled into margin preservation. From a capital management perspective, we have the excess capital and liquidity necessary to continue repurchasing shares. We repurchased $360 million of shares during the first quarter. Since the end of the quarter and during the recent market sell-off, we continued repurchasing at very attractive prices. This is another example of our anti-correlation providing us opportunities to proactively grow shareholder value when others pull back. That concludes my initial comments. I'll turn it over now to Bob to discuss our financial performance for the quarter, before David provides a more detailed update on underwriting.

Thanks, Kevin, and good morning, everyone. This quarter, against the backdrop of one of the largest insured losses in history, we reported an annualized return on average common equity of 7% with a modest operating loss. This is a strong result. Absorbing the California wildfires in our quarterly earnings demonstrates the diversification of our business and the strength of our three drivers of profit. In fact, we even grew our primary metric, tangible book value per share plus change in accumulated dividends. This is particularly notable given we also repurchased 1.5 million shares in the quarter for $361 million. As you would expect, each of our three drivers of profit responded differently to the large events of the quarter. Our underwriting income was impacted significantly, and we reported a $771 million loss. Fees were also suppressed, although to a lesser extent, with fee income of $30 million. And finally, net investment income remained strong at $45 million or $279 million on a retained basis, helping to partially offset the losses of the quarter. Net investment income has been a steady contributor to our results, especially over the last two years. In fact, if you look back at our 2024 results, our retained net investment income was over $1.1 billion. Comparing this to our average common equity in 2024, you'll see that retained net investment income contributed 12 percentage points to our overall return on average common equity. And I expect this to continue into 2025. As usual, I'll provide a more detailed discussion of these three drivers of profit, and I'll also touch on capital management, including our successful debt raise and expenses. First, however, I'll provide some brief comments on tax. As you know, Bermuda's 15% corporate income tax came into effect at the beginning of the quarter. Based on our positive pretax earnings in Bermuda, we booked a corresponding Bermuda corporate income tax expense. That said, overall, we reported an income tax benefit of $45 million. This was primarily driven by a $37 million release of a valuation allowance against a specific deferred tax asset. Moving now to our first driver of profit, underwriting. In addition to the California wildfires, there were several smaller specialty events that impacted our underwriting results, including the American Airlines tragedy and two refinery fires. Altogether, large losses in the quarter led to an after-tax net negative impact of $703 million, including $633 million from the California wildfires. The impact of tax effectively reduced our losses by $126 million this quarter. We have broken this tax impact out in the net negative impact table in our earnings release. On a pretax basis, the net negative impact from the California wildfires remains consistent with what we discussed with you last quarter at approximately $750 million. Our overall combined ratio of 128% included a 52.6 percentage point impact from these large losses. The California wildfires also led to significant reinstatement premiums, which drove up both gross and net premiums written compared to last year. Moving now to some specific commentary on our Property segment, starting with the Property catastrophe, where gross premiums written were up 24% to $1.7 billion and net premiums written were up 33% to $1.4 billion. As I mentioned, this growth was driven by $338 million of gross reinsurance reinstatement premiums from the California wildfires. Without these reinstatement premiums, gross and net premiums were roughly flat quarter to quarter. As David discussed on our last call, we grew certain property catastrophe lines at one-one, which offset some of the rate decline at the renewal. This quarter, our property catastrophe combined ratio was 176%. This reflected a current accident year loss ratio of 170% and eight points of favorable development from prior year events. Our property catastrophe current year results included a 159 percentage point impact from large loss events driven by the California wildfires. Finally, the acquisition expense ratio declined from Q1 2024, primarily due to the impact of reinstatement premiums and the reversal of profit commissions. Moving to other properties, where we had a profitable quarter, even after the impact of the California wildfires. Our combined ratio was 84% and the adjusted combined ratio was 82%. This reflected a current accident year loss ratio of 85% and 33 points of favorable development from prior year events in our attritional book. Our other property current year results included a 30 percentage point impact from large loss events in the quarter, also driven by the California wildfires. Going forward, we expect an attritional loss ratio in our other property book in the mid-50s. From a premium perspective, other property gross and net premiums written were both down roughly 15% from the comparable quarter. As we have discussed, this was predominantly driven by lower rates within the portfolio. Net premiums earned in the other property were $365 million, up 6%. In the second quarter, we expect net premiums earned to be approximately $380 million. Turning now to our casualty and specialty portfolio, where our gross and net premiums written were down modestly at 43%, respectively. Within classes, gross premiums written in general casualty were up 16%, professional liability down 36%, other specialty down 11%. These movements were primarily driven by prior year premium adjustments. We typically make these types of adjustments on quota share deals based on annual reporting by cedents of actual premiums written. In credit, the 16% gross premium written increase was driven by growth on existing mortgage deals. Our net earned premiums in casualty and specialty were $1.5 billion, down 2%. Looking ahead, in the second quarter, we expect net earned premiums of $1.5 billion. As a result of several large events in our specialty book, including the California Wildfires, American Airlines tragedy, and two refinery fires, we reported a casualty and specialty combined ratio of 111% and an adjusted combined ratio of 109%. This included a 9.2 percentage point impact from large events in the quarter and approximately two percentage points from the premium adjustments I just discussed along with some nonrecurring items. These other items partially drove the elevated acquisition expense we showed this quarter. Going forward, we expect a Casualty and Specialty combined ratio in the high 90s. Of course, similar to this quarter, we may experience cat-like volatility from time to time in our specialty book, which could increase this ratio in certain quarters. Moving now to our second driver, fee income, in our Capital Partners business, where fees were also impacted by the events of the quarter and we reported $30 million of fee income, down 64% from the first quarter last year. Management fees were $46 million, down 18% as a result of reduced management fees in Da Vinci, which we anticipate recovering over time. Performance fees were negative $16 million, driven by the reversal of previously recognized commissions in Da Vinci and our structured reinsurance fund products. Looking ahead, absent large losses, we expect management fees to be around $45 million in the second quarter before returning to a more typical run rate of $50 million in the third quarter. Similarly, we anticipate beginning to recognize performance fees toward the end of the second quarter. Moving now to our third driver of profit, net investment income. Our investment portfolio delivered excellent results this quarter with a total retained investment return of $67 million. Retained net investment income was $279 million, with a small drag due to the payment of Wildfire. We experienced retained mark-to-market gains of $328 million due to lower treasury yields in the quarter as well as gains from inflation and geopolitical-related hedges. Late last year, in anticipation of increasing economic uncertainty, we increased our investment portfolio's resilience to inflation. We did this by managing the shape of the yield curve through deemphasizing the long end of the treasury market. We also increased our long position in commodities, mainly gold, as an inflationary and geopolitical hedge. We have discussed with you in the past, we actively manage our investment portfolio to support book yield. This relatively conservative posture enabled us to lean into opportunities presented in the market. Specifically, we took advantage of market volatility to increase our exposure to global equities and increase our credit exposures, focusing on investment grade and high yield. At the end of the quarter, our retained yield to maturity was 5.1%, down from 5.3%, and retained duration was 3.1 years, down from 3.4 in the previous quarter. We reduced duration when yields approached the lower end of the recent range, in anticipation of rising rates at the longer end of the curve. In the second quarter, we expect to retain net investment income to be about flat from Q1. Moving now to other highlights in the quarter, starting with capital management. First, we continued repurchasing shares steadily through the quarter, buying back 1.5 million shares for $361 million at an average price of $242 per share. From April 1 through April 21, we repurchased an additional 278,000 shares for $65 million at an average price of $235 a share. Since we began repurchasing shares in mid-2024, we have bought back 4.5 million shares for $1.1 billion at an average price of $246 a share. To put this in perspective, in aggregate, we have repurchased approximately half the total shares we issued for the Validus acquisition less than two years ago. This active approach to returning value to shareholders demonstrates the strength of our earnings and our ability to execute highly accretive acquisitions for the benefit of our investors. We remain in a strong capital position, which is largely unchanged from the prior quarter. Consequently, we have the ability to continue deploying capital into underwriting opportunities while also repurchasing our shares at attractive valuations. Also this quarter, we successfully raised $800 million of debt, which included $500 million of 5.8% RenaissanceRe senior notes, and $300 million of 5.95% Da Vinci senior notes. These deals were significantly oversubscribed, and we achieved our tightest spread to ten-year U.S. Treasuries to date, of 130 basis points for RenaissanceRe and 170 basis points for Da Vinci. In addition, on April 1, 2025, we repaid in full our $300 million 3.7% senior notes at maturity. Our $150 million Da Vinci 4.75% senior notes will be repaid at maturity on May 1. Turning now to expenses. In the first quarter, our operating expense ratio was 3.7%, down from 4.3% compared to the first quarter of 2024. This decline was due to reduced performance-based compensation expenses and the impact of reinstatement premiums. Looking forward, we expect a normal run rate for operating expenses to be just above 5% as we continue to invest in the business. And finally, in a quarter with significant catastrophe activity, our earnings were resilient. This demonstrates the strength of our three drivers of profit: While our quarterly underwriting income and fees were impacted by the large event, investments delivered excellent results. We remain in a strong capital position and can continue to lean into underwriting opportunities while repurchasing our shares. In summary, we are in a great position to navigate the current macroeconomic environment and expect to continue to deliver value to our shareholders. And with that, I'll now turn it over to David.

Thanks, Bob, and good morning, everyone. As Kevin discussed, we are in a period of heightened macroeconomic volatility. It is in times of uncertainty that RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.'s expertise, partnership approach, and coordination across teams differentiate us as a reinsurance leader. Throughout the quarter, our underwriting teams were focused on supporting our clients and solving their risk challenges. This included conducting ground-up loss assessments for the California wildfires and helping clients rapidly pay claims, planning for and executing a successful renewal in Japan, preparing for the second quarter property renewals, and navigating a concentrated casualty renewal period with a continued focus on claims trends. Across each class of business we write, we provide expert underwriters, lead market quotes, and coordinated consistent delivery of capacity over the long term. As a result, we are often rewarded with differentiated access to programs and attractive signings. This was evident in the most recent January 1 renewal. Despite competition, we successfully deployed more capacity in property catastrophe and grew limit on over 40% of U.S. Cat renewals. We also maintained our strong position in specialty and credit and shaped the portfolio by reducing in casualty lines as discussed last quarter. Beyond risk selection, we differentiate ourselves in the way that we build portfolios of risk. This includes matching the right risk with the right capital and using our diversified underwriting portfolio to create three distinct drivers of profit: underwriting, fee, and investment income. You can see the benefit of this approach in our results this quarter as we were able to absorb one of the largest catastrophe losses in history in our quarterly earnings. Now moving to a more detailed discussion of our two segments and starting with Property. We are deep in the process of quoting midyear renewals and in some instances have already bound lines. Many of the clients impacted by the wildfires have traded with us for decades. Fire is a primary peril covered by their programs, and we have written this business profitably. We have learned from recent events and incorporated new information into our models in time for Q2 renewals. Our confidence in our view of risk, access to efficient capital, and willingness to quote earlier than others makes us a first-call market for the best clients and gives us opportunities for differentiated terms and private deals. Supply and demand are more in balance than on January 1, and trading conditions are more favorable. The market remains attractive, and we have the appetite to continue growing in property catastrophe, and we plan to deploy additional limit through midyear. Our primary focus, however, is on margins. Through our underwriting system, REMS, each underwriter can see the return on capital on a deal-by-deal and even layer-by-layer basis, and the effect on our portfolio in real time. This empowers our underwriters to make disciplined, margin-focused decisions that benefit our shareholders. As expected, the four-one property renewals in Japan were orderly, and we are pleased with the portfolio we underwrote. The Japan market trades separately from the U.S. Rates were down about 10%. At these levels, the business is still attractive, and we largely retained our share. Shifting to a discussion of other property. This business has been performing well. That said, recent profitability has attracted more competition, and rates are decreasing. In upcoming renewals, we will use our suite of tools, including ceded reinsurance, to construct a book that is complementary to property catastrophe and accretive to our overall underwriting portfolio. Moving now to the California wildfires. As Bob explained, we reported a post-tax net negative impact from the California wildfires of $633 million. The majority of this loss was in our property segment, with a small amount in our Specialty book. That said, there are two primary factors which could reduce our loss. The first is subrogation. This may be available in the future to offset some loss from the Eaton wildfire. The Eaton fire makes up about one-third of our industry estimate. It is too early to predict the financial benefit of subrogation to our results. In the meantime, our approach is not to book any subrogation benefit until we are confident in its receipt. The second possible offset is recoupment of California fair plan assessments. The California Insurance Commissioner approved a $1 billion assessment on insurers to cover claims from the wildfires. These assessments increased losses of our cedents and are covered under some reinsurance programs. Part of these assessments may be recoupable from underlying policyholders, which would reduce their reinsurance obligation. Similar to subrogation, however, potential recoupment is not factored into our loss estimate until we are confident in its receipt. Moving now to Casualty and Specialty. As Bob mentioned, we reported an adjusted combined ratio of 109%, which included provisions for several large losses in our specialty book. These losses are unrelated to our ongoing focus on casualty trends. Our view of general liability trends and current loss ratios remained stable in the quarter. In addition to the California wildfires, the specialty losses also included two large refinery fires impacting our marine and energy book and the American Airlines tragedy at Reagan National Airport impacting our aviation book. We expect that the American Airlines loss will be a significant event for the aviation market. Similar to the wildfires, there may be potential for subrogation. We will not book this until we are confident in its receipt. While we experienced heightened frequency in our specialty book this quarter, this is not indicative of any longer-term trend. As a reminder, much of our specialty book is excess of loss. We expect cat-like activity from time to time and reserve for these losses on an event basis. Overall, our specialty book has been performing well. The aviation and marine and energy markets have been profitable. More broadly, as we discussed last quarter, the casualty and specialty segment makes a significant contribution to operating income across our three drivers of profit, particularly considering the significant flow it generates for our investment portfolio. Moving now to a discussion of the four-one renewals and the outlook for the midyear. Trends from one-one continue in our Casualty and Specialty business. Specifically in casualty, we have been encouraged to see that insurance companies are recognizing increased trend in general liability and taking steps to improve their claims handling and realize greater underlying rate increases. Given the heightened scrutiny around the impact of social inflation on general liability profitability, I want to take a minute to expand on this and provide our assessment of the evolving state of the market and increasing sophistication of the claims handling practices of our cedents. This is where we have an advantage as a reinsurer. We are better placed to identify best practices because we have a broad overview of the market and can see the differentiated approaches of our customers. I think about the market response in two stages. First was to reduce policy limits and increase rates. Second is enhanced claims management. Starting with the first stage, in 2019, there was growing recognition that general liability lines were increasingly challenged. Insurers responded by reducing policy limits with the intent of limiting severity in the event of a claim. With lower capacity in the market, rates increased over 50%. We grew into this market. Despite the rate increases, however, we held our reserving loss ratios relatively flat to reflect our view of uncertainty. Moving to the second stage, in 2022, courts began to reopen following the COVID pandemic, and we saw a shift in claims management practices to quickly settling claims. This was intended to reduce the potential for very large awards from nuclear verdicts. The reduction in limits I discussed encouraged this behavior. Rates were still increasing during this period but at a reduced level of 6% to 8%. More recently, it became clear to us that social inflation trends remained at their pre-COVID pace of about 10% to 12%. The market responded to this in late 2024, and rate increases began to accelerate to at least 15%. Rates are now cumulatively up over 200% since the start of 2019. Trend, however, is also cumulative, and much of that 200% has been needed to keep up. By the end of 2024, claims defense strategies were also becoming more sophisticated. Rather than quickly settle, certain insurers were more willing to fight problematic claims. Our casualty book is quota share, which means we take a percentage share of each policy our client writes throughout the year, both of premiums and of losses. Given this and the wide disparities we observe in how customers are currently managing claims, we look to select those with the most robust claims management approach. That said, it will take time to see the effects of stronger claims defense strategies come through results. For profitability to improve, rates need to continue increasing at 15% or greater throughout 2025. The market movements I just described since 2019 are a good example of why we say casualty needs to be viewed over a ten-year timeframe. Trends take time to discern, and underwriting and claims actions take time to demonstrate their positive effects. We are taking all the right actions to manage general liability through this cycle. Success will take time to emerge in the data. We are pleased with the progress and confident that general liability is on track for improved profitability. In the meantime, we are taking a cautious approach. We will continue to reduce exposure to general liability and are not reflecting the additional rate above trend in our loss picks. Moving now to professional liability. After several quarters of rate decreases, primary capacity is starting to withdraw from the market. Although it is too soon to tell if this will drive discipline in the class. We continue to monitor the market but remain cautious and have reduced our exposure in recent years. In specialty, we continue to find most lines of business attractive. We grew significantly in specialty with the recent Validus acquisition and have excellent access to strong programs. While there has been some increased competition, we aim to hold our existing lines, deploy capacity on the best programs, and optimize our portfolio across profitable classes. Finally, in credit, we are closely monitoring the global economic environment for any potential impacts to our credit book and believe we are prudently positioned in the event of a recession. While tariffs may impact volume and course of trade, we do not expect this to lead to significant losses at this stage. So in closing, this quarter we demonstrated the strength of our platform and three drivers of profit as we absorbed one of the largest insured losses in history. As we look toward midyear renewals, the underwriting market remains attractive across most of the lines we write. We have excellent access to business, and our underwriters remain margin-focused, building a portfolio that supports strong returns for our shareholders. And with that, I'll turn it back to Kevin.

Thanks, Dave. Our results this quarter demonstrate the strength of our three drivers of profit. We remain in excellent capital and liquidity positions despite one of the largest catastrophic losses in history. Looking ahead, the underwriting market remains attractive across most lines that we write, and we are well placed to access opportunities at the midyear renewals. As the world struggles with increased macroeconomic uncertainty, we believe our anti-correlation will insulate our business and allow us to benefit from increased risk aversion. Finally, interest rates remain robust, which bolsters our net investment income, and we continue to expand our fee-generating capital partners business. And with that, we'll open it up for questions.

Thank you. In the interest of time, we ask that you please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. We'll now take our first question from Elyse Greenspan with Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.

Hi, thanks. Good morning. My first question is on the midyear renewals. Was just hoping you could expand just on how you're expecting California fires, right, the loss we saw this year to impact the midyear is right better. Very heavily concentrated in Florida? And if you have any data points to support, I guess, some better pricing during the midyears? And how do you think this could triangulate into growth opportunities for RenRe?

Thanks, Elyse. Let me start with some broader comments, and I'll turn it over to Dave. I think it's important to help you guys understand the change in rates. What we focus on is the adequacy of rates. And I think since particularly since starting with property from 2023, we increased rates on the property portfolio by 10%. We increased retentions and we changed terms and conditions. And what we've said since then is like any financial market there'll be ups and downs. I think the important thing is from a rate adequacy perspective, the property market is in exceptional shape compared to where it has been historically. From the casualty, Dave did a good job outlining where casualty is. We're seeing lots of green shoots for improved casualty with rate increase and better claims management. So we feel really confident there and specialty continues to be well-rated and in very strong shape. So I'll turn it over to Dave to talk more specifically about the upcoming.

Yes. Thanks, Kevin. We feel really good about where the cat market is and the opportunities ahead. And like Kevin said, the rates and retentions are some of the most attractive we've seen. Whether rates are up or down a bit is less reliant on that. It's more we're confident that those trading conditions will continue. We have seen some renewals and we're encouraged by the trading conditions. It is more in favor of reinsurers than it was at one-one. Supply and demand are more in balance than what we saw at one-one. There is growing demand and we've been able to construct a really nice portfolio so far. With the bulk of the renewals yet to come, we'll have to go through those. But there's a lot more renewals that are loss impacted. Going on to Florida, demand is growing in Florida and pricing is strong, so it will be an opportunity. We have seen more risk move back into the private market from citizens depopulating. That does increase demand. The Florida Hurricane Cat Fund is increasing where it attaches, so that increases demand down below. So all that plays to our strengths. We'll be able to provide solutions with the new demand, private deals, and things like that. Other property is more challenged on the rate side. We had a reduction this year. We're expecting additional competition there. We're fully confident we can construct an attractive portfolio using ceded reinsurance, but we're going to be deploying more of our cat capacity on the property cat side. And general liability is on a good track, which is going to take time, like we said.

Thanks. And then my follow-up is on casualty specialty, right? I mean, you guys did raise the combined ratio guidance there, right, the high 90s from prior, it was mid to high 90s. So can you just spend, you know, some time talking about what changed specifically this quarter that caused you to raise the combined ratio target for that business?

Yes. I think I'll start again with some of my comments. As Dave pointed out, the casualty market is better this quarter than last quarter and has been improving. We've seen elevated trend, but the trend has been stable at the 10% to 12%. Rates continue to come in strong, but we're going to be slow in recognizing the improvements that we're observing to make sure that those improvements are clearly demonstrated in the development patterns and the data. So I think when looking at the casualty market, it is a better market than we have been in. Rates continue to look good. But I'll turn it over to Dave for more specific comments.

Yes. Thanks, Kevin. The casualty market is doing everything it should be to manage this part of the cycle. I think it's been responsive over the last stages of the cycle, kind of like I went through and how we the market raised rate and reduced one in 2019. And now there's another need to improve claims management. Companies are making solid investments in that. The right time to be fighting the plaintiff's bar, but that will take time to emerge. And similar to how we didn't recognize that good news until it showed up in reserving loss ratios after 2020. We're going to be taking a conservative approach until we see that coming through the data.

Thank you. And we will take our next question from Josh Shanker with Bank of America. Please go ahead.

Yes. Thank you very much. I want to talk about the balance of cat loss being picked up by DaVinci and the other third-party vehicles. Has the proportion of third-party ownership of the cat volume increased dramatically at January 1? It does seem like the common shareholder portfolio was more resilient in the face of a very large loss.

Yes. It's relatively stable. So if you reflect back, one of the things we did when we bought Validus is we did reduce the share of risk that went to Da Vinci, but increased the size of Da Vinci because of the acquisition of Validus. Since then, it's been relatively consistent as to how much we're sharing with Validus. You recall last year, we did change our ceded purchases as we underwrote the Validus portfolio onto the right balance sheets. So we continue to benefit from that. I would say the portfolio is relatively stable with the allocation to DaVinci from I think you're asking basically over the one renewal, but it stays relatively stable right now. And our plan is not to change it materially as we go forward. There's always some movement in it with ownership, but it's not a material shift.

Alright. And then historically, for the last thirty years, you've put up a pretty conservative number when major events have happened. Enough time passes that you feel comfortable that you reserve adequately for that loss and you release some reserves, and that's been a big source of earnings long term and when big cat happens, the same thing happens all over again. But in this quarter, the balance of the favorable amount came from the other property segment, not really the cat segment. And if people are trying to figure out, you know, the behaviors of RenRe as you've transitioned away from being a cat company into a more diverse company, can you talk about what went into the reserve release and other property? And is there any read-through about how you're managing that book business and how you're managing the reserves?

On casualty and specialty? Yes. So nothing has changed in our reserving. We even just looking at the wildfires, make our best assessment. We've talked many times about having a top-down approach and a bottom-up approach. Top-down we're looking at the industry event, bottom-up we're looking at each client individually and then coming up with our assessment. I'll turn it over to Bob to talk a little bit more specifically about the split between the reserve changes this quarter.

On the favorable development in property came in about a third of it went into the property cat and the other two-thirds was in the proportional side of the other property. And that's a mix between cat-exposed and non-cat-exposed. It's part of a review process we'll go through on an annual basis. And there were just more releases that came out of that process on the other property. So it's not a targeted focus. It's a byproduct of the process that we go through and look at the events on an annual basis.

Thank you. And we will take our next question from Jimmy Bhullar with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Hey, good morning. I just had a couple of questions on your casualty and specialty business. So first on the reserve development this quarter, it was modestly positive. Can you go into some details on whether there was some adverse in certain lines and positives in other lines that offset that? Just any color there. And then just relatedly, if you could talk about your confidence in your casualty reserves overall. A lot of your cedents have had adverse development in recent years. Your reserves have generally been PYD has been neutral or slightly positive the last several quarters.

So let me start with the second part of your question, then I'll turn it over to Dave for the first part of your question. If you look at how to manage a casualty specialty portfolio, it is firstly, you need good underwriting and then you need a good process to manage the decisions you made from underwriting to make sure that your reserves are tracking any change in trend which are different from the underwriting decisions you made at time zero. We've done a good job on both the underwriting. We have a diversified portfolio. There's always classes that have changes in the reserving patterns, which we're reflecting. But on balance, the portfolio in Casualty Specialty is well balanced and performed well. So when I think about the Casualty Specialty business, one of the reasons in which in my comments I'm able to highlight the resilience of the overall platform is because we have greater diversification across our three drivers of profit because of the beneficial addition of the casualty portfolio. We are highly confident in the construction of the portfolio. And in order to be highly confident, we need to be highly confident in the reserves supporting it.

Yes. I can talk more about the specific reserves. I think obviously, there's a lot of actuarial rigor that goes into the estimates. But if you step out of that, I think a reserve analysis in two parts. It's did we get the underwriting right and then do we get the reserving process right. And the answer to both of those in our case is yes. We have been making the right decisions on the underwriting side. We've been able to allocate the capacity to the best risks and grow when we should, reduce when we should, use adverse development covers. Avoid being overweight, any one problematic class. You know, general liability has had less favorable results, the other classes have had more favorable results but the balance was there. So the segment has been profitable. We've had sustained favorable development. And also that's part of getting the reserving process right. Also like we talked about after 2020 when rates are increasing in casual we didn't immediately take that benefit. And we have taken some of that and then reversed that to make sure that our more recent years are strongly reserved. We're comfortable with where those are.

Okay. And if I could just ask one more. Just on your comments on overall market conditions, obviously, prices have come down, but it seems like they're still very adequate. But, they have been coming down for the past couple of years. What's different about this market than in prior soft markets that would suggest that this is not the beginning of sort of a multiyear decline in prices?

Well, you're saying prices have been down for several years. Referring No. Of what? You're saying prices have gone down for the past several years and we’ve seen – So I think it's important to highlight again that when we've said and we went through a substantial rate increase in 2023, that reset was very different. It wasn't about a normal softening in the market, but there were vast inequities and return period for loss frequency and severity between portfolios. It was incredibly low, and that reset allows a much more stable environment where we can maintain adequate prices with very attractive terms. And we feel confident based on that reset that this isn't just a temporary change or for a few years but more of a portfolio return to long-term sustainable results. We're encouraged that the economic trends are supporting that consistently.

Thank you. And we will take our next question from Bob Huang with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Hi, good morning. Maybe just a few things shifting gears a little bit. First one on capital. Allocation. You talked about repurchasing shares, continue to repurchasing shares. You also talked about reinsurance still being attractive. If we were to rank the importance of each of your business and share repurchase on capital allocation. Yeah. In terms of capital allocation, how would we rank them? Is it property catastrophe first, other property second? Where would casualty fall? Where would buyback fall? Just curious how you would think of them from an order of importance.

Yes. Thanks for the question. We're fortunate to be in a capital and liquidity position that we are unencumbered from pursuing everything. We can grow our business. We have capital for that and at the same time repurchase shares. But more specifically, the reason we are focused on margin preservation is because our ability to grow the portfolio in a way that maintains the capital exposure and therefore the efficiency in the portfolio at the level we've achieved with the Validus acquisition is not the same as it has been. I think in this business, if you try to grow the same amount every year, you're likely to fail. It's a ratcheted equilibrium market where there's opportunities to grow and you need to take it. And then there's opportunities where you need to think about how you're preserving the capital exposed to maintain the margin. So right now, the biggest area of growth is top layers within the property cat space where people are continuing on the to purchase more cover. That does create opportunities for us through the STACK. But for the ability for us to keep that fully deployed at the we've achieved in the portfolio is more challenged right now. So we'll look to do it. But you're asking me to prioritize them? I'm not sure that I can because I don't need to. Because we have the capital to do it all.

Okay. Got it. No. That's very helpful. The second one, I I I might have missed this, so apologies in advance. You talked about now having exposure to gold in the market. Did you disclose how big of a position that is in terms of like the risk you're taking there?

We did not. And I think it's important to highlight this does not reflect any change in the way we think about our investments. We think about our investments over the long term in contemplation of the enterprise risk that we have, but we thought it was wise because of the high degree of uncertainty to do something that was a little bit different to make sure that should there be shocks that are unknowable at time zero, we had some hedge in place in the portfolio. And that's really what we've done.

Thank you. And we will take our next question from Meyer Shields with KBW. Please go ahead.

Great. Thanks so much. I want to talk about midyear renewals. I want to get a sense for Renaissance and your own sort of proprietary pricing tools, how relevant is the fact that so many midyear students are going to be loss impacted as opposed to loss-free or last twelve months?

Hi Meyer, this is David. So it's definitely relevant on each deal. I think when there's a deficit in the deal, clients are very loyal to the renewal reinsurance provider. So we're usually significant providers of these clients. Some of the clients that we sell wildfire coverage to in particular are some of the blue-chip clients we've done business with for multiple decades. That'll be a piece of the negotiation, and it makes it very likely that we'll be able to have results and continue trading with them. I think the other thing that I'll mention though about trading into the post-loss environment. With hurricane that's a normal course of business. We already talked about the Florida opportunities. But post-Wildfire we have updated our models and that's where we can do that quicker than anyone else in the market. We've updated our wildfire model learned from the last event and can be quoting big lines growing on some deals exposed to wildfire and it's just that's what we're able to do. We're working with risk sciences working with our underwriting team. Our tail is normally steeper than the vendor models we've been able to make improvements and we'll quote that with confidence.

Okay. Just going back and very helpful information. I'm wondering whether being loss impacted is a predictor of future losses or is it just part of the recruitment mechanism embedded in reinsurance?

Within our modeling, we're reflecting where we think expected loss comes from on a geographic basis by peril. So in thinking about the discussions that we have with clients at renewal, one of the first discussions is are we or are you surprised by the level of loss in this instance in California from these wildfires. Does that mean that they're more likely to have a wildfire next time, or is their book differently shaped? We try to glean that out of it, but most often it comes to is the information that we've been given accurately reflecting the experience that they're achieving. In many cases, it is. In some cases, there's more to talk about. But I wouldn't say that we look at it as if you've done poorly in event A, you're going to do poorly in event B.

And we will take our next question from Mike Zaremski with BMO. Please go ahead.

Hey. Thanks. Question specifically on the Florida property cat marketplace. There's still some kind of positive commentary coming out of Citizens, for example, on the reforms bending the loss curve. Any views there now that we've seen a year plus of kind of the data coming through? That you think could maybe ultimately benefit the loss ratio? Or is the industry kind of taking that into account as they model out, risk at midyear and pricing?

Yes. This is David. Thanks for the question. The reforms have had a positive impact on Florida claims. It's still fairly early stages. We have had two hurricane events last year, and those are early stages of being settled. So while it's positive directionally, and we take a favorable view of the Florida market because of the opportunities I mentioned, it's just a piece of the overall analysis. They're trending in the right direction.

I guess just, you know, to follow-up, do you feel that reinsurers are kind of going to tighten all that benefit? Are there could be, you know, a period of time where it or just it needs time to develop more to bring to a better understanding?

Well, I could focus more on what we do and the way we approach it is we are in touch with our clients we're gathering information similar to it's a much shorter lead time than say what casualty takes to move but it does take time to be able to analyze the actual effects of changes in claims management. I said, it's headed in the right direction and we've seen positive signs. But it's still quite early after the last couple of events. Yes. A lot of the impact and the benefit of these changes have been to the attritional loss ratios and to the profitability of the domestic Florida companies, obviously, how it impacts cat is a little different, but we definitely think it's directionally beneficial.

Thank you. And we will take our next question from Andrew Kligerman with Jefferies. Please go ahead.

Hey, good morning. Maybe just back on the Casualty and Specialty segment and perhaps I'm a little confused on the combined ratio piece but you're saying on the one hand there was no change to GL trends and current loss ratios, but the combined ratio guide did move up to high 90s. So was there a change on specialty or on professional liability?

Let me start. It's a good question. I think I tried to cover this in the prepared comments. We had nine points of specialty I mean, specialty losses, wildfires, airlines, and refineries. I did toss in there was a couple of other points. You can see in the acquisition ratio was elevated. That we're going to be in the mid to upper 90s. We're looking at the 90s. Because there's going to be ups and downs. We did increase, remember, last year the loss rate. It's printing at 67, which is consistent with last year. So, that's what we feel good about. And the mix of our business is a byproduct of how we've underwritten the book and what both David and Kevin have spoken to.

And we will take our next question from David Motemaden with Evercore. Please go ahead.

Hey, thanks for squeezing me in. Just wanted to follow-up on the six-one renewals. So I hear you on the desire to preserve margin there. And deploy capital efficiently. Do you think that there are enough opportunities there where we could see an acceleration in cat from the flattish growth that you saw at one-one?

So I'll start and give some perspective. The market is growing. So I think what we said at one-one is we thought $10 billion of new cat demand. Most of that will be towards the top of programs. We think that is actually a bit higher now. The decision we're making is we have allocated more capital for growth should we decide to execute on it is something that we will make deal by deal decisions as we go through the renewal. The concern that we have is increasing the exposed capital and reducing the efficiency of the portfolio. The opportunity to write is going to be profitable. It is going to increase the efficiency of our portfolio, which is more questionable. So when we're looking at how to construct a portfolio, that's resilient not only in 2025, but in 2026 and 2027, the best way for us to do that is to manage capital as aggressively as can by pushing it into the market. Managing it through share repurchases. But not looking at what's immediately available, but making sure that the portfolio is positioned well from a margin perspective to continue to provide the broadest coverage possible into 2027 and 2028.

Thank you. And we will take our next question from Alex Scott with Barclays. Please go ahead.

Hey, thanks for taking the question. On capital, I just wanted to see if you could give us a look at how you're thinking about your capital position, ability to grow, just considering you guys don't provide quite as much around like PMLs and that kind of thing, sometimes hard to tell like how much capacity and firepower you have. So, it's interested if you could elaborate. At all.

Looking at all our metrics, we do not feel constrained to grow or to buy shares back from a liquidity or capital position across the platform. I'll turn it over to Bob for more color on the capital.

Regarding the depth of it, it's a good question. Thank you. But our capital position is commensurate with our strong earnings. That we've demonstrated over the last two years. We've been building earnings with the acquisition of Validus. And all three drivers of profit talked about the strength of the investment portfolio at 12% ROE contributor to last year's returns and that expectation going into 2025. So the three drivers of profit are performing. And they're generating capital, and it gives us the ability to deploy into the business which is our preference. But also return it at attractive prices.

Got it. That's helpful. And as a follow-up, I just wanted to ask about the mortgage business. It seemed like that was a spot you leaned into in CNS this quarter. And just interested what the opportunity is there?

Yes, thanks for the question. So in terms of the premium growth, there is a bit of noise in the way the premium comes through the quarterly results. So think about it on a longer term, we have reduced our mortgage exposure making the book more resilient to a recession mainly by moving up in towers. And avoiding some of the lower credit quality items. So I wouldn't view that as a change. The main trajectory has been to be resilient to a recession.

And it appears that we have no further questions at this time. I will now turn the program back to Kevin O'Donnell for any closing remarks.

Thanks for joining today's call. Looking at the first quarter, there's volatility and uncertainty. I feel as if RenRe demonstrated good execution through that. And I think as that continues over the course of the year, I feel as if we have great opportunities to continue to build shareholder value. Thanks for joining today, Carol, and we look forward to talking to you next quarter.

This concludes the RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. First Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. Please disconnect your line at this time and have a wonderful day.