interval fund

Amundi Pioneer Investment Management’s dedicated insurance-linked securities (ILS) mutual investment fund strategy, the Pioneer ILS Interval Fund, saw its net assets shrink by over 6% in the last quarter of record, but encouragingly the gap between the cost of its investments and their value narrowed again.

In the last quarter of the record, Amundi Pioneer Investment Management’s dedicated insurance-linked securities (ILS) mutual investment fund strategy shrank further as losses and loss creep continued to dent returns and the value of ILS assets invested in.

City National Rochdale Select Strategies (CNRLX), an industry loss warranty (ILW) focused mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund, has continued to steadily grow its assets during its last reported quarter, although some loss impacts remain visible in the fund portfolio.

The City National Rochdale Select Strategies Fund (CNRLX), an industry loss warranty (ILW) focused mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund, managed a 6.6% annual return in the year to Jan 31st 2019, while its assets under management increased in the last quarter as well.

Amundi Pioneer Investment Management’s dedicated insurance-linked securities (ILS) mutual investment fund strategy has shrunk in the last quarter of record, as ongoing catastrophe loss development shows in its portfolio.

Asset manager Amundi Pioneer Investment Management’s flagship dedicated insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund, the Pioneer ILS Interval Fund, managed a positive return of over 5% in the year to October 31st 2018, as premium income earned outweighed insured losses for the managers’ ILS portfolio.

Industry loss warranty (ILW) investment focused mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund, the City National Rochdale Select Strategies Fund (CNRLX), has grown in its last reported quarter while at the same time losses from the prior year appear to have been largely settled.

Asset management giant Amundi Pioneer Investment Management has hired experienced reinsurance underwriter Campbell Brown as a portfolio manager for its range of insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategies.

There has been little in the way of assets under management growth at the industry loss warranty (ILW) focused mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund, the City National Rochdale Select Strategies Fund (CNRLX), in the latest quarter.

Assets under management of the Pioneer ILS Interval Fund have grown sharply again in the last quarter of record, jumping another 21% to reach almost $983 million at the end of July 2018. However, the impacts of the 2017 catastrophe losses is evident in the reduced valuations of many positions in the fund.