diversification

It’s been apparent for some months that the catastrophe bond market stalled during the second quarter as a result of the impact of the Japanese earthquake and the uncertainty caused by changes to U.S. hurricane risk models. At the start of this year the market was feeling positive about the prospects for growth as the […]

Plenum Investments, the Zurich based investment manager with a focus on alternatives such as insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bonds, notes in its May monthly fund performance update that both the primary and secondary ILS markets were relatively calm in May as investors held their positions.