insurance linked securities fund

ILS Diversified Ltd., a fund-of-funds which invests in the insurance and reinsurance linked investments market via allocations to insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, has outperformed the wider ILS fund market in its first month of operation.

ILS Diversified Ltd. the first fund-of-funds in the insurance linked investments market solely investing in insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds to achieve a return more in-line with the market is being launched on April 1st by ILS Advisers.

The insurance-linked securities investments team at global asset manager AXA Investment Managers is adding two new hires, has grown its ILS assets under management to circa $500m and is set to launch a third insurance linked investment fund.

Institutional investors perception of hedge funds appears to be maturing, according to research from investment bank Deutsche Bank, with investors increasingly appreciating hedge funds as just one piece of a portfolio approach to asset management.

Two listed insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, which are both in the process of new share placements, have extended the placing timetables, thus giving prospective investors more time to subscribe to their latest rounds of fund-raising.

German reinsurer Hannover Re, the anchor investor in the Leine Investment SICAV-SIF Insurance-Linked Securities Sub-Fund 1, told us that currently only about 25% of its seed capital has been deployed by the fund.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund management operation backed by German reinsurer Hannover Re is now up and running and open to investors. Luxembourg based asset management firm Leine Investment SICAV-SIF and managing partner Leine Investment General Partner S.à r.l. were established last year as 100% subsidiaries of Hannover Re with the aim of launching ILS funds […]

A trend which we’ve been writing about for a number of years here on Artemis, is the increasing number of reinsurers getting involved in the management of third-party investor capital in insurance, reinsurance and catastrophe-linked investment funds. The fully-collateralized reinsurance space has been on the up in recent years, but two of the world’s largest […]

There’s a new insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund emerging on the scene thanks to a seed investment from German reinsurer Hannover Re. Hannover Re has had an internal ILS fund, which they have been successfully running since 2008, targeting a diversified portfolio of low-risk catastrophe bonds for their own benefits. Now they are turning what was […]

Yesterday we wrote about Aon Benfield Securities latest annual insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond market report, which shows that in the twelve months to 30th June 2012 the ILS market has experienced a stellar year of performance. As usual we will highlight some interesting points from the report over the coming days, the first of […]