ILS funds news, insurance linked securities or ILS fund news

As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to expand, it still offers attractive opportunities for investors, with strong results over the past few years bringing increased investor capital into ILS funds, according to Mark Gibson, Senior Investment Director at Schroders Capital.

Pillar Capital Management Limited, the Bermuda-based specialist collateralized reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has hired former SS&C employee Ken Mahadeo as Vice President, Operations.

Jireh Risk Advisors Ltd., the insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused solution provider and Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS), an independent insurance manager, have launched OpIngen, which both firms describe as a next-generation operations service tailored for the reinsurance and ILS industry.

The average year-to-date return of catastrophe bond investment funds in the UCITS format in 2025 reached 9.60% by November 28th, while some strategies in the category of pure cat bond funds have moved into the double-digits at this stage, according to the latest data from the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices.

RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, the third-party and ILS capital management division of the global reinsurance company, has added former Swiss Re executive Edward Johnson as a Senior Vice President for Business Development with responsibility across the EMEA and APAC regions.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund sector has delivered its strongest October returns on-record in 2025, as the group of ILS funds tracked by the ILS Advisers Fund Index reported an average performance for the month of 1.44%.

Despite catastrophe bond risk spreads having tightened and reinsurance rates being expected to decline at the renewals, specialist insurance-linked securities manager Twelve Securis says the relative value of the ILS asset class remains compelling for investors with structural improvements set to persist.

Shuriken Capital Management LLC is launching as a new insurance-linked securities investment manager. The firm has a mandate to allocate capital to catastrophe bonds and other collateralized reinsurance or ILS instruments, while it is supported and backed by Florida-headquartered Safepoint Holdings, Inc., the parent of Safepoint Insurance Company.

The Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF is gaining momentum with a surge in trading volumes over the last two months and its assets under management (AUM) surpassing the US $25 million mark.

Since the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its technical advice to the European Commission (EC) on the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive (EAD) and what that could mean for catastrophe bonds in UCITS funds, the Authority has been notably silent on the matter.