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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000899140-16-001427
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	S-8 POS
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20160516
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20160516
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20160516

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000913144
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	FIRE, MARINE & CASUALTY INSURANCE [6331]
		IRS NUMBER:				980138020
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			D0
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		S-8 POS
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-61015
		FILM NUMBER:		161654676

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		RENAISSANCE HOUSE
		STREET 2:		12 CROW LANE
		CITY:			PEMBROKE
		STATE:			D0
		ZIP:			HM19
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4412954513

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		RENAISSANCE HOUSE
		STREET 2:		12 CROW LANE
		CITY:			PEMBROKE
		STATE:			D0
		ZIP:			HM19
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<DESCRIPTION>POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-61015
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</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font> Washington, D.C. 20549</div>

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</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO.&#160;333-06339</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO.&#160;333-61015</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO.&#160;333-68282</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO.&#160;333-90758</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO.&#160;333-119489</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO.&#160;333-167394</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font> UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>

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<font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Renaissance House</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">12 Crow Lane</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Pembroke&#160; HM 19</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Bermuda</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
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</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. Non-Employee Director Stock Plan</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. Amended and Restated Non-Employee Director Stock Plan</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Nobel Insurance Limited Incentive Stock Option Plan</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. 2001 Stock Incentive Plan</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. 2004 Stock Option Incentive Plan</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. 2010 Performance-Based Equity Incentive Plan</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 3pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.4pt">RenRe North America Holdings Inc.<font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font>3200 Atlantic Avenue<font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
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</font>(919) 876-3633<font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) </font>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.4pt">Robert&#160;B. Stebbins, Esq.<font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font>Michael&#160;A. Katz, Esq.<font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font>Willkie Farr &amp; Gallagher LLP<font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.4pt">Stephen&#160;H. Weinstein, Esq.<font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
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</font>Pembroke&#160; HM 19<font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
</font>Bermuda<font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><br>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.4pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt">This Post-Effective Amendment No.&#160;1 (this&#160;&#8220;Post-Effective Amendment&#8221;) to each of the following Registration Statements on Form&#160;S-8 (collectively, the&#160;&#8220;Prior Registration Statements&#8221;) of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (the&#160;&#8220;Registrant&#8221;) is being filed to terminate all offerings under the Prior Registration Statements and deregister any and all securities that remain unsold pursuant to the Prior Registration Statements, in each case, solely to the extent that they relate to the Registrant&#8217;s 1993 Stock Incentive Plan (the&#160;&#8220;1993 Plan&#8221;), Non-Employee Director Stock Plan (the&#160;&#8220;Director Plan&#8221;), Amended and Restated Non-Employee Director Stock Plan (the&#160;&#8220;Amended Director Plan&#8221;), Nobel Insurance Limited Incentive Stock Option Plan (the&#160;&#8220;Nobel Plan&#8221;), 2001 Stock Incentive Plan (the&#160;&#8220;2001 Plan&#8221;), 2004 Stock Option Incentive Plan (the&#160;&#8220;2004 Plan&#8221;) or 2010 Performance-Based Equity Incentive Plan (the&#160;&#8220;2010 Plan&#8221; and, together with the 1993 Plan, the Director Plan, the Amended Director Plan, the Nobel Plan, the 2001 Plan and the 2004 Plan, the&#160;&#8220;Prior Plans&#8221;):</div>

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<td style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; WIDTH: auto; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Registration Statement on Form&#160;S-8, File No.&#160;333-</font>&#160;<font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">06339, filed with the Commission (the&#160;&#8220;Commission&#8221;) on June&#160;19, 1996, registering the offer and sale of 6,937,500 common shares, par value $1.00 per share (&#8220;Common Shares&#8221;), of the Registrant (as adjusted to reflect the three-for-one share split effected by the Registrant on May&#160;30, 2002) issuable pursuant to the 1993 Plan and the Director Plan;</font></td>
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<td style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; WIDTH: auto; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Registration Statement on Form&#160;S-8, File No.&#160;333-61015, filed with the Commission on August&#160;7, 1998, registering the offer and sale of 450,000 Common Shares (as adjusted to reflect the three-for-one share split effected by the Registrant on May&#160;30, 2002) issuable pursuant to the Amended Director Plan and the Nobel Plan;</td>
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<td style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; WIDTH: auto; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Registration Statement on Form&#160;S-8, File No.&#160;333-68282, filed with the Commission on August&#160;24, 2001, registering the offer and sale of 2,850,000 Common Shares (as adjusted to reflect the three-for-one share split effected by the Registrant on May&#160;30, 2002) issuable pursuant to the 2001 Plan;</td>
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