GREENLIGHT CAPITAL RE, LTD.

We have two reportable segments: Open Market and Innovations.

Refer to “Part II, Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” (herein referred as “MD&A”) for additional information relating to our reportable segments and related underwriting performance and “Part II, Item 8. Note 18 “Segment Reporting” to the consolidated financial statements for further details on our reportable segments and a breakdown of our gross premiums written by geographic area of risks insured.

The following table presents the gross premiums written for the most recent three years:

(1) Corporate includes gross premiums written from Innovations’ related property runoff business. Negative gross premiums written reflect adjustments to original premium estimate.

Our Open Market segment is led by our Group CUO, with over 25 years of P&C reinsurance experience. Our Group CUO also oversees the underwriting activities of our Innovations segment (see below).

We provide treaty reinsurance to insurance companies on a global basis, written on a proportional or non-proportional (also known as excess of loss) basis. The Open Market segment has the following lines of business:

•Casualty: includes primarily general liability, umbrella, multiline casualty, and workers’ compensation coverage.

•Financial: includes primarily mortgage, trade credit, surety, transactional liability, and financial multiline coverage.

•Health: includes primarily accident and critical illness coverage.

•Multiline: includes predominantly FAL business, coupled with multiline commercial and personal auto liability, BOP, and multiline commercial coverage.

•Property: includes mainly commercial property and property catastrophe coverage.

•Specialty: includes primarily agriculture, cyber, marine and energy, aviation and space, specialty multiline, and WPVT coverage.

The majority of our Open Market business is produced through reinsurance brokers worldwide. Brokerage distribution channels provide us with access to an efficient, variable cost and global distribution system. In some cases, intermediaries also provide other services, including risk analytics, processing, and clearing.

We aim to build and strengthen long-term relationships with global reinsurance brokers. Our underwriting team has relationships with most primary and specialty broker intermediaries in the reinsurance marketplace. By maintaining close relationships with brokers, we believe that we will continue to obtain access to a broad range of reinsurance clients and opportunities.

We seek to strengthen our broker relationships and become the preferred choice of brokers and clients by providing, where applicable:

We focus on the quality and financial strength of any brokerage firm we conduct business with. Brokers do not have the authority to bind us to any reinsurance contract. Their commissions are generally determined based on a percentage of gross premiums written.

The following table shows the percentage of our Open Market’s gross premiums written by broker, shown individually where a broker accounted for 10% or more of the total, in any of the last three years:

We frequently meet in the Cayman Islands, Ireland, U.K. and elsewhere with brokers and senior representatives of clients and prospective clients. We review and (when we deem appropriate) approve all contract submissions in the Cayman Islands or Ireland. Due to our dependence on brokers, the inability to obtain business from them could adversely affect our business strategy. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors —Risks Related to Our Business — The loss of significant brokers or customers, could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.” We may assume a degree of the credit risk of our reinsurance brokers. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors —Risks Related to Our Business —We are subject to the credit risk of our brokers, cedents, agents and other counterparties.”

Our FAL business is generated through our Lloyd’s corporate member (GCM), which represented approximately 36%, 26%, and 35% of our Open Market gross premiums written for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.

Our Innovations segment is led by our Head of Innovations since 2020, with over 15 years of P&C experience, with the underwriting led by our Innovations Chief Underwriting Officer, with over 22 years of P&C experience.

Innovation-related Investments

We make strategic investments in promising startup companies and MGAs, subject to investment guidelines as approved by our Board of Directors, in addition to providing reinsurance capacity on a case by case basis. These private investments consist primarily of unlisted equities (mostly preferred shares) and debt instruments.

In evaluating Innovations opportunities, we generally ensure that each investment meets at least one of the following criteria:

Given the higher-risk nature of early / seed-stage investments, we limit our initial investment to between a range of $0.25-$2.0 million for each investee. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors -Risks Relating to Our Innovations Strategy”

Innovation-related Underwriting

We provide underwriting capacity to our program partners through insurance and reinsurance structures on a global basis, written on a proportional or non-proportional basis. The Innovations segment has the following lines of business:

•Casualty: includes primarily general liability and multiline casualty coverage.

•Financial: includes predominantly miscellaneous financial coverage.

•Health: includes primarily travel and other miscellaneous health coverage.

•Multiline: includes mostly BOP and multiline commercial coverage, in addition to business written via Syndicate 3456 (multiple lines of business).

•Specialty: includes primarily contingency liability and travel-related (e.g. trip cancellation / interruption, baggage and personal effects, and medical insurance) coverage.

Our Innovations underwriting business is sourced from our strategic partners in startup companies and MGAs. Concurrently with our initial investment, in most cases, we enter into a right of first offer to provide underwriting capacity based on a minimum percentage of the business written by the direct client. In some cases, we may not invest capital in the strategic partner but rather provide reinsurance capacity. We also work closely with our strategic partners who wish to attain Lloyd’s coverholder status, which allows them to conduct business with Syndicate 3456. Starting in 2024, as an alternative to the Lloyd’s platform, we also offer to clients the ability to create segregated cells within Viridis Re based in the Cayman Islands, providing them more flexible and cost effective reinsurance solutions.

The following table shows the percentage of our Innovations’ gross premiums written by customer, shown individually where a customer accounted for 10% or more of the total, in any of the last three years:

Underwriting and Risk Management

We have established an underwriting platform composed of experienced underwriters and actuaries. We have underwriting operations in three locations: the Cayman Islands, Dublin, Ireland, and London, U.K. These platforms provide access to key markets in the U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Asia. Our experienced team allows us to deploy our capital in various lines of business and capitalize on opportunities that we believe offer favorable returns on equity over the long term. Our underwriters and actuaries have expertise in multiple lines of business. We generally apply the following underwriting and risk management principles:

Economics of Results

Our primary underwriting goal is to build a (re)insurance portfolio that maximizes profitability, subject to risk and volatility constraints.

Underwriting Analysis

Our approach to underwriting analysis begins at the class-of-business level. This analysis includes identifying and assessing the structural drivers of risk and emerging loss trends and understanding the market participants and results, capacity conditions for supply and demand, and other factors. Our underwriting professionals specialize in business lines, and our quantitative professionals (pricing actuaries) assist in evaluating all risks we underwrite. Combined with cross-line management, we believe this approach enables us to build and deploy expertise and insight into the business line’s risk dynamics and external factors that will affect each transaction.

We assign a deal team composed of underwriting and quantitative professionals to evaluate each potential transaction’s pricing and structure. Before committing capital to any transaction, the deal team and the regional Chief Underwriting Officer must obtain approval from at least one of, the CEO, Group CUO, or GRIL’s CUO (except for deals led by the GRIL’s CUO). In seeking this approval, the deal team presents the key components of the proposed transaction, including assumptions and threats, market and individual deal risk factors, market capacity dynamics, transaction structure and pricing, maximum downside, and other factors.

We collaborate with our current and prospective clients and brokers to understand the risks associated with each potential transaction. For most of our business, we follow terms set by recognized market leads. We consider the remainder of our underwriting portfolio, including contracts linked to our Innovations partners or in areas where we have significant market expertise, to be “lead business.” When underwriting lead business, we generally structure the reinsurance agreements to ensure that our cedents’ interests and ours are aligned. Where appropriate, we conduct or contract for on-site audits or reviews of the clients’ underwriting files, systems, and operations. We usually obtain substantial data from our clients to conduct a thorough actuarial modeling analysis. As part of our pricing and underwriting process, we assess, among other factors:

We develop proprietary quantitative models and use several commercially available tools to price our business. Our models consider conventional underwriting and risk metrics and incorporate various class-specific and market-specific aspects from our line-of-business analyses. We use models to evaluate the quantitative work’s quality and predictive power and undertake a detailed assessment of the data quality.

Underwriting Authorities

The Underwriting Committee of our Board of Directors (the “Underwriting Committee”) sets parameters for aggregate property catastrophic caps and limits for maximum loss potential under any individual contract. The Underwriting Committee must approve any exceptions to the established limits. The Underwriting Committee may amend the maximum underwriting authorities periodically to align with our capital base. The Underwriting Committee designs our underwriting authorities to ensure the underwriting portfolio is appropriate on a risk-adjusted basis.

Refer to “Part II, Item 5. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations -Financial Condition” for a summary of our catastrophe loss exposure in terms of our probable maximum loss (“PML”), net of retrocession and reinstatement premiums, as at January 1, 2026.

Retrocessional Coverage

We opportunistically purchase retrocessional coverage for one or more of the following reasons: to manage our overall catastrophe events or aggregate exposure, reduce our net liability on individual risks, obtain additional underwriting capacity, and balance our underwriting portfolio.

The retrocessional coverage we purchase varies based on numerous factors, including the inherent volatility and risk accumulation of our underwriting portfolio and capital base. Our portfolio, and by extension our gross risk position, will change in size from year to year depending on market opportunities, so it is difficult to predict the level of retrocessional coverage that we will purchase in any future year.

We generally purchase uncollateralized retrocessional coverage from reinsurers with a minimum financial strength rating of “A- (Excellent)” from A.M. Best or an equivalent rating from a recognized rating service. For lower-rated or non-rated reinsurers, we endeavor to obtain and monitor collateral in the form of cash, funds withheld, letters of credit, regulatory trusts, or other collateral in the form of guarantees. At December 31, 2025, the aggregate amount due from reinsurers from retrocessional coverages represented 8.4% (2024: 10.0%) of our gross loss reserves. For further details, please see Note 9 “Retrocession” to the consolidated financial statements.

Claims Management

Our claims management process begins upon receiving claims notifications from our clients or third-party administrators. We review reserving and settlement authority under the individual contract requirements and, as necessary, discuss with the contract’s underwriter. Our in-house claims team oversees claims reviews and approves all claim settlements. Claims above the claims manager’s authority are referred to the General Counsel, Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), CEO, Chief Actuary, Chief Operating Officer or Group CUO together with the claims officer’s recommendations, for secondary approval. We believe that this process ensures that we pay claims in accordance with each contract's terms and conditions.

Where appropriate, we conduct or contract for on-site claims audits at cedents and third-party administrators, particularly for large accounts, Innovations partners, and those whose performance differs from our expectations. Through these audits, we evaluate and monitor the third-party administrators’ and the ceding companies’ organization and claims-handling practices. These practices include:

•fact-finding and investigation techniques;

•loss notifications;

•reserving;

•claims negotiation and settlement;

•adherence to claims-handling guidelines.

The results of these claim reserves are shared with the underwriters and actuaries to assist them in pricing products and establishing loss reserves.

We recognize that the fair interpretation of our reinsurance agreements and timely payment of covered claims are essential components of the service we provide to our clients.

Reserves

Our reserving philosophy is to set reserves at the level representing our best estimate of the amount we will ultimately be required to pay in connection with risks we have underwritten. Our actuarial staff performs quarterly reviews of our portfolio and provides reserving estimates according to our stated reserving philosophy. In doing so, our team groups our portfolio into reserving analysis segments based primarily on homogeneity considerations. Currently, this process involves analysis at the line of business, individual client or transaction level.

We engage an independent actuarial firm who reviews and provides opinions on these reserve estimates at least once a year. Due to the use of different assumptions and loss experience, the amount we establish as reserves with respect to individual risks, clients, transactions, or business lines may be greater or less than those set by our clients or ceding companies. Reserves include claims reported but not yet paid (referred as “case reserves”), additional case reserves (“ACR”), claims incurred but not reported, and claims in the process of settlement. Additional underwriting liabilities include unearned premiums, premium deposits, and profit commissions earned but not yet paid.

Reserves represent an estimate rather than an exact quantification. Although the methods for establishing reserves are well established, many assumptions about anticipated loss emergence patterns are subject to unanticipated fluctuation. We base our estimates on our assessment of facts and circumstances, future trends in claim severity and frequency, judicial theories of liability, and other factors, including inflation, interest rate changes, political risks and the actions of third parties, which are beyond our control.

Another significant component of reserving risk relates to the estimation of losses in the aftermath of a major catastrophe event. Accordingly, we believe the most significant accounting judgment made by management is our estimate of loss and loss adjustment expense reserves. For more information on our reserving process and methodology, refer to the “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates - Loss and Loss Adjustment Expense Reserves” under “Part II, Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

See Note 8 “Loss and Loss Adjustment Expense Reserves” of the consolidated financial statements for a reconciliation of claims reserves, loss development tables by accident year, and explanations of significant prior period loss development movements. For a discussion on risk factors relating to loss reserves, see “Item 1A. Risk Factors — Risks Relating to Our Business —If our losses and LAE greatly exceed our loss reserves, our financial condition may be materially and adversely affected.”

Collateral Arrangements and Letter of Credit Facilities

We are primarily licensed and admitted as a reinsurer only in the Cayman Islands and the European Economic Area (the “EEA”). Many jurisdictions, including the United States, do not permit clients to take credit for reinsurance on their statutory financial statements if they obtain such reinsurance from unlicensed or non-admitted insurers without appropriate collateral. As a result, our U.S. clients and some non-U.S. clients require us to provide collateral for the contracts we bind with them. We provide collateral as funds withheld, trust arrangements, or letters of credit (“LOC”). For further information, see Note 10 - “Debt and Credit Facilities” of the consolidated financial statements in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”.

Competition

We compete for reinsurance business in the Cayman Islands and European markets. The global reinsurance market is highly competitive. Competition is generally influenced by a variety of factors, including available capacity, service, financial strength ratings, prior history and relationships, and price. We compete with major global reinsurers, most of which are well-established and have significant operating histories, strong financial strength ratings, and long-standing client relationships. Competitors also provide protection in the form of catastrophe bonds, industry loss warranties, and other risk-linked products that are outside of the traditional reinsurance treaty market. This may lead to reduced pricing and/or reduced participation levels in certain reinsurance products.

Our competitors vary according to the individual market and situation. Generally, they include Arch Capital, Sampo Re, AXIS Capital, Conduit, Everest Re, Fidelis, Hamilton Re, Hannover Re, RenaissanceRe, SiriusPoint, and smaller companies, other niche reinsurers, alternative risk providers (such as captives, catastrophe bonds and other forms of insurance linked securities), and Lloyd’s syndicates and their related entities. Although we seek to provide coverage where capacity and alternatives are limited, we directly compete with these and other larger companies due to the breadth of their coverage across the property and casualty market in substantially all lines of business. See “Item 1A — Risk Factors —Risks Relating to Our Business –Competitors with greater resources may make it difficult for us to effectively market our products or offer our products at a profit.”