Catastrophe bond fund news

Catastrophe bond market momentum accelerated through the second-quarter of 2026 and has broken many records, with more than $11.3 billion of new risk capital analysed and tracked in the period, making Q2 2026 the biggest single quarter in the history of the cat bond market and driving H1 to set another high bar, Artemis’ new […]

The Victory Pioneer CAT Bond Fund has now surpassed the $2 billion in assets under management milestone, extending its AUM to $2.2 billion by June 30th 2026. The combined AUM across dedicated mutual and institutional insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds and multi-sector strategies managed by the Pioneer Investments team stands at around $5 billion.

During periods of market stress, waves of selling are typically triggered by balance-sheet constraints, funding pressures, and forced deleveraging. Because of this, investors often presume that catastrophe bonds, particularly in an ETF format, will mimic high-yield credit during a macro crisis, experiencing the same indiscriminate selling and liquidity breakdowns.

With the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season now underway, the key meteorological factors influencing tropical cyclones have pointed towards a below-average season in terms of storm numbers, which affects the tactical positioning of an insurance-linked securities (ILS) or catastrophe bond portfolio, a new report from Solidum Partners AG has highlighted.

Euler ILS Partners, the specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has appointed former senior Swiss Re executive and ILS specialist Martin Bisping to become the new Chairman of its Board of Directors.

Icosa Investments AG has confirmed the appointment of Dr. Raffaele Dell’Amore as a Partner and member of the firm’s management team. In this role, he will lead the continued expansion and institutionalisation of Icosa’s offering, with a particular focus on catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS).

UCITS catastrophe bond funds delivered an average return of 0.36% through the month of May, taking the year-to-date 2026 return through May 29th to 2.28%, while rolling twelve month performance declined slightly to 10.18%, according to the latest data from the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices.

RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, the specialist division of the reinsurer, lifted its third-party investor capital managed across joint-venture reinsurance and insurance-linked securities strategies by around 7% over the last year, to end March 2026 with $8.46 billion of assets under management.

The overall catastrophe bond market yield or coupon available to investors continued to rise through May, as expected seasonal spread widening lifted total returns to 9.42% by May 29th. But this remains ~14% behind the level seen a year earlier due to softer pricing across reinsurance and cat bonds, the latest data from Plenum Investments […]

As alternative capital continues to grow, it’s currently estimated share of 20% of the global re/insurance industry is largely an underestimation, according to Guy Carpenter’s Laurent Rousseau, who argues that current market conditions would suggest that it will increase further before it stabilises or shrinks.