Cat bond fund news

King Ridge Capital Advisors LLC, the specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager and the sub-advisor to the Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF (ILS), has established a UCITS ETF catastrophe bond fund structure in Ireland.

Plenum Investments AG, the Swiss based specialist manager of catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, has experienced substantial growth in assets raised for its Plenum European Insurance Bond Fund, a UCITS investment strategy focused on the debt issuances of European insurers.

Our latest video features the second panel discussion of the day at Artemis London 2025, a session focused on the catastrophe bond market segment, from our fourth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the City of London, UK, held on September 2nd 2025.

Man Group, a global independent alternative and active investment management firm, has now launched its awaited UCITS catastrophe bond fund managed under the Man AHL brand, with the Man Systematic Cat Bonds fund having become operational earlier this month, Artemis can report.

The UCITS catastrophe bond fund sector has continued to expand through the latest quarter of record, adding more than 3% in assets under management across the group of 17 UCITS cat bond funds, to reach a new high of almost $17.73 billion after September 2025.

LGT ILS Partners would expect that if it becomes necessary to transform its existing UCITS catastrophe bond offering into a new liquid alternative investment category as a result of the recent ESMA recommendation, such investment solutions should remain available for private investors, Michael Stahel, Partner and Portfolio Manager at LGT ILS Partners told us in […]

Rest Super, one of the Australian superannuation funds that has around 2 million members and $100 billion in funds under management, has grown its insurance-linked securities (ILS) allocation to catastrophe bonds through ILS manager Twelve Securis over the last year to around US $242 million.

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.

Secondary market prices of some catastrophe bonds that provide their sponsors aggregate reinsurance or retrocessional coverage have been increasing at what is viewed as being a faster pace, than is typically anticipated, in recent months, with some sources suggesting a contributor is the fact hurricane season has so far run loss-free in 2025.

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.