Catastrophe bond fund news

King Ridge Capital Advisors LLC, a recently launched specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has announced the hiring of former-PIMCO executive Shiraj Khan, who joins the company as Partner, Senior Vice President, and Head of Property Analytics and Research.

Euler ILS Partners, the specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has hired Anton Ohneseit who brings investment analysis expertise gained from time most recently at UBS and Credit Suisse.

Plenum Investments AG, the Swiss based specialist manager of catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, has hired Raphael Kron, an executive with significant experience advising institutional clients in the region, as well as specific cat bond expertise.

Issuance of catastrophe bonds and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) approached a massive $10.5 billion for the second-quarter of 2025, growing the outstanding cat bond market by $4.6 billion to a new end of quarter high of $56.7 billion, Artemis’ new quarterly cat bond market report shows.

Regulator and supervisor the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has now published its awaited advice to the European Commission (EC) on its review of the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive (EAD), in which it says its conceptual view is that some alternative assets such as catastrophe bonds may sit better under a different framework than […]

The Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Advisors Corporation (SRILIAC) team, the catastrophe bond focused investment management arm of the global reinsurance firm, spent the month of May cleaning less liquid and private transactions from the GAM Star Cat Bond Fund portfolio, Artemis can report.

Switzerland based pension fund Nest Sammelstiftung, or the Nest Collective Foundation, saw catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) as one of its best investment asset classes in performance terms in 2024, benefiting from over 20% across its cat bond and reinsurance allocations.

The Twelve Cat Bond Fund, the flagship UCITS catastrophe bond fund strategy operated by insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager Twelve Securis, has reached a new milestone in terms of its size, becoming the first UCITS cat bond fund to surpass US $4 billion of assets under management.

With UCITS catastrophe bond funds delivering positive returns to their investors for the month of May, it has helped to lift the trailing twelve-month return for the UCITS cat bond fund sector back to an average of 12%, according to the latest data from the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices.

The Icosa Cat Bond Fund, the catastrophe bond fund strategy distributed by Icosa Investments, continued to grow in recent weeks and has now reached a new milestone of $500 million in assets under management (AUM).