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Insurance-linked security specialist fund manager Securis Investment Partners has put on hold its plans to list a new £200m ILS and cat bond fund on the London Stock Exchange.

The CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund, which was listed on the London stock exchange late last year, has raised a further $7.4m by issuing shares to meet demand it has seen from investors. The fund is managed by CATCo Investment Management Ltd. who manage assets including insurance-linked securities.

Investment manager GAM has announced the launch of a new catastrophe bond fund which aims to capture the structural return of the catastrophe bond market using a portfolio comprised of cat bonds and complimented by investments in other insurance-linked securities. Through the new fund, named GAM FCM Cat Bond, they seek to produce attractive, consistent […]

Back in December we reported the first UCITS compliant insurance-linked securities investment fund launcha. Now we see (via Hedge Week) that another is launching under the wing of Decision Analytics Advisory Partners AG and their Next Generation Absolute Return business.

Clariden Leu has teamed up with Frankfurt, Germany based Fundmatrix to enable them to reach out to the German investment market with their funds including their insurance-linked securities investment opportunities. Fundmatrix will be helping Clariden Leu gain access to the German market and market its funds to potential investors.

In an update to the London Stock Exchange where it is listed, CATCo Investment Management Ltd. (recently launched collateralized reinsurance investment manager) announced that its CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund (which trades on the LSE) has deployed 96.3% of the initial start up capital it raised at launch.

CatCo Investment Management, who launched in Bermuda earlier this year, has successfully become the first to list a dedicated catastrophe investment vehicle on the London Stock Exchange. The CatCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund raised $80m from investors.

Falcon Private Bank has launched a new insurance-linked securities investment fund. It’s the firms second insurance-linked strategies fund, they already manage the Falcon Cat Bond Fund. The new Falcon Insurance Linked Strategy Fund,will invest in catastrophe bonds and is available to private and institutional investors.

Coriolis Capital Ltd., the London based investment firm who specialise in insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds and weather hedging instruments such as derivatives have been featured in an article on Opalesque today.

AIFAM Inc. has managed an insurance-linked securities catastrophe bond investment fund since 2006 when it launched a dedicated cat bond investment opportunity. The $34m cat bond fund has returned 10% to investors this year and 47.4% including interest since it was launched. Now AIFAM are seeking to grow that side of their hedge fund management […]