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Exhibit 12.1

Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges

For purposes of computing the following ratios, earnings consist of net income before income tax expense plus fixed charges to the extent that such charges are included in the determination of earnings. Fixed charges consist of interest costs plus one-third of minimum rental payments under operating leases (estimated by management to be the interest factor of such rentals).

  For the twelve months ended





  2005   2004   2003   2002   2001
Earnings   $(51,064 )   $492,353   $467,679   $190,302   $(160,482 )
Add:          
Income taxes   22,924   7,560   2,110   2,661   (69,307 )
           
Fixed charges:          
   Interest expense   27,339   35,214   18,570   12,960   13,044
   Interest credited to life          
   policyholders (1)   13,284   13,860   17,041   19,679   17,364
   Interest credited to          
   retrocessionnaires on funds          
   held on reinsurance treaties   1,288   1,325   1,282   1,180   1,098
   One third of rental payments   7,575   6,865   5,467   4,528   3,751
           
Distributions related to Trust          
   Preferred and Mandatorily          
   Redeemable Preferred          
   Securities, net of applicable          
   taxes       16,120   21,730   2,311
Earnings before income taxes          
   and fixed charges   $21,346   $557,178   $528,268   $253,040   $(192,221 )











Fixed charges:          
   Interest expense   27,339   35,214   18,570   12,960   13,044
   Interest credited to life          
   policyholders (1)   13,284   13,860   17,041   19,679   17,364
   Interest credited to          
   retrocessionnaires on funds          
   held on reinsurance treaties   1,288   1,325   1,282   1,180   1,098
   One third of rental payments   7,575   6,865   5,467   4,528   3,751
                     
   Total fixed charges   49,486   57,265   42,359   38,347   35,257
   Preference share dividends (2)   34,525   21,485   29,390   20,000   20,000
           
Distributions related to Trust          
   Preferred and Mandatorily          
   Redeemable Preferred          
   Securities, net of applicable          
   taxes       16,120   21,730   2,311
                     
   Total fixed charges   $84,011   $78,750   $87,869   $80,077   $57,568
           
Ratio of earnings to fixed          
   charges   0.43   9.73 12.47 6.60 NM(3 )
           
Deficiency of earnings to fixed          
   charges (4)   $28,140         $227.5
   
       






  For the twelve months ended





  2005   2004   2003   2002   2001
Ratio of earnings to combined          
   fixed charges and preference          
   share dividends   0.25 7.08   6.01   3.16   NM(3 )






Deficiency of earnings to          
   combined fixed charges and          
   preference share dividends (4)   $62,665         $249.80
   
       

(1) Represents interest credited to policyholders on certain life reinsurance treaties for which the Company earns compensating interest income.
   
(2) Dividends have not been tax effected because they are presumed to be paid out of a Bermuda entity whose tax rate is zero.
   
(3) NM: Not meaningful. The ratios for the 2001 periods above are not meaningful due to the net loss which PartnerRe reported for 2001, which included losses related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
   
(4) Represents additional earnings that would be necessary to result in a one-to-one coverage ratio. Expressed in millions of U.S. dollars.