Catastrophe bond fund news

Leadenhall Capital Partners, the London headquartered specialist insurance linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance related investments manager, has experienced particularly strong inflows of new capital across all its ILS fund strategies, growing its assets under management (AUM) to $5.72 billion by the end of 2025.

With surging issuance and demand from investors in 2025, it was the year that the original vision for what the catastrophe bond market could become was realised, as they cemented their position as core protection and became a truly established asset class, investment manager Twelve Securis has said.

With the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space continuing to gain significant momentum, reinsurance giant Swiss Re and GAM Investments have affirmed their commitment to continue developing new products and identifying opportunities within the ILS market.

The London Stock Exchange is home to an insurance-linked securities fund strategy again, as the King Ridge Capital Advisors LLC managed UCITS exchange traded catastrophe bond fund (ETF) was listed on the exchange yesterday, further broadening its reach to investors.

2025 was another very successful year for catastrophe bond investors, who benefited from the strong performance of the asset class and the market dynamics witnessed suggest that the cat bond market is likely to continue growing, Florian Steiger, CEO of Icosa Investments AG has said.

The Ambassador catastrophe bond focused US mutual fund strategy operated by Embassy Asset Management has grown its total insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets under management to more than US $700 million or the first time, while the strategy delivered an 11.61% return for the last year of record.

The catastrophe bond market experienced its third consecutive year of double-digit returns in 2025, with perhaps the most widely used benchmark, the Swiss Re Global Cat Bond Performance Index, delivering a total return of 11.40% for the period.

Fermat Capital Management, the specialist catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has made a new senior hire in Sandro Tiziani, to strengthen its investor relations and expand distribution reach within the Swiss and Italian markets.

Catastrophe bond funds in the UCITS format closed out a stunning year of growth to reach a significant $19.12 billion of combined assets under management by the end of 2025, representing a record $5.3 billion or almost 39% in growth over the twelve months.

The combined assets under management of the dedicated mutual catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds managed by the Pioneer Investments team has continued to rise, with the total now over $2.5 billion, while the pure cat bond fund strategy delivered a 12.82% return and the interval ILS fund 18.66%.