Catastrophe bond fund news

The Victory Pioneer CAT Bond Fund has now grown by over $1 billion in assets through 2026 year-to-date, with the strategy reaching $2.76 billion in AUM this month. Meanwhile, the combined AUM across dedicated mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds managed by the Pioneer Investments team now stands at almost $3.66 billion.

The Ambassador US mutual fund strategy operated by Embassy Asset Management, that allocates its capital to catastrophe bonds and private insurance-linked securities (ILS) that we believe to be largely ILW’s, has reached a new milestone with its net assets under management practically at $1 billion.

Given insurance-linked securities’ (ILS) ability to offer a bounded allocation whose premium compensates for real and imperfectly correlated tail risk, a new paper by Omnigence Asset Management suggests that ILS remains one of the most credible candidates for diversification when traditional stock-bond relationships falter.

Members Capital Management Limited (MembersCap) executives told us the company has recently launched its first catastrophe bond fund strategy to expand its offering to clients, while also disclosing that it was the investor behind a recent innovative industry-loss warranty (ILW) transaction.

During August 2026 catastrophe bond seasonal spread tightening accelerated and as a result the catastrophe bond market yield, or coupon available to investors, fell around 4.5% in the month. Which leaves it now 13% lower than it was at the same time last year, according to the latest data on cat bond yields from Plenum […]

Catastrophe bond fund structured in the UCITS investment format delivered their strongest month of performance year-to-date through the August days of record, averaging 1.24% for the period, while the 12-month rolling return average across the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices slipped a little further to 9.82%.

As both catastrophe bonds and private reinsurance continue to gain momentum, institutional investors should not be viewing the two as competing asset classes, as their respective strengths are complementary to each other, which ultimately allows investors to build more diversified catastrophe risk portfolios, LGT ILS Partners’ Christian Bruns told Artemis in an interview.

Fermat Capital Management recently hit new milestones for two of its dedicated catastrophe bond fund strategies, taking the pair to more than $3 billion of assets under management each, while achieving those levels of assets at a particularly rapid pace, Artemis can report.

Brookmont Capital Management, LLC, is set to move the listing venue for its Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF (ILS) strategy to the Texas Stock Exchange as it hopes to onboard the first lead market maker to the fund within weeks.

Nest Sammelstiftung, or the Nest Collective Foundation, a Swiss pension that adopts sustainable investment strategies and allocates to insurance-linked securities through a number of ILS managers has reported that its allocation achieved “convincing results” again in 2025.