Catastrophe bond fund news

Global asset manager Schroders has teamed up with Thai company Krungthai Asset Management to launch catastrophe bond fund strategies specifically for the Thai ultra-high net worth investor marketplace.

Third-party investor capital under management in RenaissanceRe Capital Partners range of reinsurance joint-ventures and insurance-linked securities strategies rose to $8.54 billion by September 30th 2025, with the figure increasing by $450 million in the quarter.

SCOR Investment Partners surpassed the $5 billion milestone in terms of catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities assets under management and senior executives Sidney Rostan and Alexandre Jaegle told us they view the market outlook as positive and anticipate momentum continuing, for the sector and their own ILS investment platform.

Catastrophe bond investment funds in the UCITS format have continued to deliver strong returns for their investors through October, with the average 2025 year-to-date return for these cat bond funds running at 8.88% by the end of that month, according to the latest data from the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices.

Speaking during a recent webinar, Dirk Schmelzer, Senior Portfolio Manager for ILS at Plenum Investments AG, outlined that while the organisation expects another decrease in catastrophe bond risk spreads of around 10–15%, the market remains very healthy and is expected to expand further in both size and the range of risks transferred to the cat […]

The overall yield of the catastrophe bond market declined to 8.81% as of October 31st 2025, falling back to levels last seen in June 2022, while the insurance risk spread, or discount margin, has now declined to its lowest point since November 2019, the latest data from Plenum Investments shows.

With some months now passed since the ESMA recommendation regarding the eligibility of catastrophe bonds within UCITS investment fund structures, Daniel Grieger of Plenum Investments has highlighted how national regulators are not all in agreement.

Having launched its first UCITS compliant property catastrophe bond fund strategy earlier this year, the RenaissanceRe Medici UCITS Fund, the reinsurance company had grown the fund to almost $400 million in net assets by the end of the third-quarter of 2025.

RenaissanceRe, the global reinsurance company and third-party capital manager, has reported a 24.1% rise year-on-year in fee income earned from its reinsurance joint-venture vehicles and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds in the third-quarter of 2025.

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.