SEC Form 3 

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person^*
Hagerty William Francis

(Last) | (First) | (Middle)
RENAISSANCE HOUSE
12 CROW LANE

(Street) 
PEMBROKE | D0 | HM 19

(City) | (State) | (Zip)

2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
05/20/2015

3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol 
RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD [ RNR ]

4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer 
(Check all applicable) 
X | Director | | 10% Owner
| Officer (give title below) | | Other (specify below)

5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) 
X | Form filed by One Reporting Person
| Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4) | 2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4) | 3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) | 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)

1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4) | 2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) | 3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4) | 4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security | 5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) | 6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
| Date Exercisable | Expiration Date | Title | Amount or Number of Shares | | |
Explanation of Responses:
Remarks:
The Reporting Person was appointed to the Issuer's Board of Directors effective as of May 20, 2015. As of the date hereof, the Reporting Person beneficially owns no securities of the Issuer. Consistent with the Issuer's director compensation program, the Issuer's Board of Directors has ratified the issuance to the Reporting Person of the annual restricted stock grant awarded to directors. In accordance with the Issuer's policies, the restricted stock grant to the Reporting Person will be made on the third business day following the release date of the Issuer's financial results for the second fiscal quarter of 2015. The equity award will vest ratably over a three year period on the anniversary date of the Reporting Person's appointment to the Issuer's Board of Directors. Exhibit List Exhibit 24 - Power-of-Attorney
No securities are beneficially owned.
| /S/ Stephen H. Weinstein, Attorney-in-Fact | 05/20/2015
| ** Signature of Reporting Person | Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these present that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
Stephen H. Weinstein, Jeffrey D. Kelly, Mark A. Wilcox, Molly E. Gardner,
Nicholas J. West, Scott Gale and Kirsty A. Swart signing singly, the
undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

        (1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer and/or employee of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. or one of its
subsidiaries (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

        (2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5,
complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such
form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock
exchange or similar authority; and

        (3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and authority
to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary,
or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein
granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could
do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorney-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 19th day of May, 2015.

/s/ William F. Hagerty IV
William F. Hagerty IV