ILS Advisers

Company profile:

ILS Advisers is the first Asia based investment consultant and investment manager focusing exclusively on Insurance Linked Investments (ILS).

The team has long-term experience and understanding of ILS as an asset class and knowledge and understanding of global ILS managers.

Its founders combine over 40 years of industry and management experience on the top level of major financial institutions.

ILS Advisors also had $255.54 million of ILS assets under advisory as of 31st July 2017.

Team size and structure:

Team of 3

Number of strategies (how many funds, sidecars or strategies):

1

Strategy:

As well as acting as an independent consultant, providing advice and guidance on ILS matters to clients in Asia, ILSAdvisers also launched an ILS fund-of-funds offering in March 2014.

ILS Diversified Ltd.

The ILS Diversified Ltd. provides investors with returns that are uncorrelated not only to traditional but also to other alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity or real estate.

The goal of the fund is to outperform the Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index by investing in a well diversified global portfolio of high yielding instruments like catastrophe bonds and other insurance linked securities (ILS), industry loss warranties (ILW) and private re-insurance transactions.

The investments are made indirectly through an optimized selection of specialist ILS funds.

Type of investment strategy (fund, sidecar etc):

Fund

Launch date:

Mar 2014

Latest AuM:

$89.65 million

Underlying asset types:

The fund has exposure to a broad range of ILS assets due to its fund-of-funds approach