PartnerRe Ltd. Increases Quarterly Common Share Dividend by 9% to $0.60 from $0.55 per Share (PRE)

PartnerRe PRE today announced that its Board of Directors has increased the annual dividend to $2.40 per common share, from $2.20 per common share. This is the eighteenth consecutive year that the Company has increased the common share dividend since its inception in 1993. Today, the Board declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.60 per common share. The dividend will be payable on June 1, 2011, to common shareholders of record on May 20, 2011, with the stock trading ex-dividend commencing May 18, 2011.