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Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, has reported that its two flagship mutual insurance-linked securities and reinsurance investment fund strategies delivered total returns of 33% and 14.27% for the annual period to October 31st, while combined ILS assets managed in its mutual funds surpassed $6 billion.

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT), the global quantitative and systematic investment manager, has made another hire for its insurance-linked securities (ILS) team, adding Dr. John Ery an experienced ILS portfolio manager from reinsurance firm SI Re, Artemis has learned.

In a third interval fund launched under the partnership between alternative asset manager Calamos and specialist alternative investment consultant Aksia insurance-linked securities (ILS) are a component, as the newly launched Calamos Aksia Hedged Strategies Fund (HEDGX) has an allocation to the RenaissanceRe Medici catastrophe bond strategy.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, has continued to grow the insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets under management of its mutual reinsurance fund strategies to just over $5.8 billion, which is now the highest level they have sat at in more than six years.

The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) has published an Introduction to Insurance Investing, a concise, practitioner-focused guide to Insurance-Linked Strategies (ILS), designed to demystify the asset class while promoting transparency and informed decision-making across the institutional investment landscape.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, has reported that the insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets under management in its mutual reinsurance fund strategies increased to almost $5.3 billion in the last quarter of record, with catastrophe bonds seemingly growing in focus.

Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the hedge fund solutions unit of Blackstone, has made the first direct catastrophe bond investment for one of its flagship muti-strat alternatives funds recently.

As investors consider their options post the US Liberation Day tariff’s announcement and resulting volatility, investment giant KKR anticipates the traditional 60/40 stock and bond portfolio split will be reimagined, with the firm’s Henry McVey suggesting the addition of insurance as an asset class for its diversification benefits.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, is set to liquidate the Post-Event Reinsurance Fund that it originally launched back in 2015, Artemis has learned from company filings.

Obra Capital, an alternative asset manager that invests across a range of insurance-linked opportunities in life, annuity, property and casualty risks, has announced the promotion of Peter Polanskyj to Chief Investment Officer.