By GlobeNewswire,  May 30, 2018, 09:20:00 AM EDT

• The Report questions whether the Company "should be classified as a PFIC". As Greenlight Re has stated publicly in its annual report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2017, management believes Greenlight Re should not be classified as a PFIC. Under the existing rules prior to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Greenlight Re annually conducted an assessment and determined that in 2017 and in prior years it should not be deemed a PFIC. The Company's reinsurance activities and risk profile do not support the PFIC designation, but the law change has put more emphasis on balance sheet arithmetic than a qualitative assessment. Greenlight Re intends not to be treated as a PFIC and is in the process of restructuring its activities to ensure that it meets the bright-line applicable insurance liabilities test. Greenlight Re will not need "to increase insurance liabilities in a market that has terrible pricing" or deviate from its underwriting discipline.
• Greenlight Re is not a small reinsurance business "stapled onto billions of dollars of hedge fund capital". Rather, the Company, established in 2004, is a standalone global property and casualty reinsurer regulated in the Cayman Islands and Ireland with 37 employees. Greenlight Re is not invested in the Greenlight Capital investment funds, but rather has a separately managed account subject to its own investment guidelines as overseen by its Board of Directors.
• Contrary to the allegations in the Report, Greenlight Re has not "increased investment risk due to poor recent performance". As described in the Company's 2018 first quarter earnings call, the Company has lowered gross exposure in recent periods. As of March 31, 2018, the investment portfolio was 93% gross long by 65% short, compared to 101% long and 67% short as of December 31, 2017.
• The Company utilizes brokerage services that are common practice throughout the reinsurance industry. The reinsurance brokerage services industry is dominated by a small number of large companies and it is common for a reinsurer to have significant concentration.
• While the Company does not believe that other clients of Greenlight Re's investment advisor or of its affiliates are relevant to the Company or to its investors, we note that Greenlight Capital has advised that as of March 31, 2018:
  
  -- Greenlight Capital's funds that employ a similar investment strategy to Greenlight Re have similar fee arrangements, and
  
  -- Greenlight Re comprises 18% of Greenlight Capital's total assets under management, not 42% as erroneously calculated in the Report.