Plenum Investments news

Swiss alternative assets and insurance-linked securities investment manager Plenum Investments will be focusing in on their ILS business after it was announced that their non-insurance-linked investment operations would be moved under its own brand name, Pulsar. The move will help them to focus on their two core areas of operations and help them to strengthen […]

Diversification is becoming a regular theme of many of our articles as investors seek our ways to keep a good mix of perils in their insurance-linked securities portfolios. The catastrophe bond market recently found itself to consist of 71% U.S. hurricane risks, add to that the slow primary issuance and you have a difficult situation […]

Plenum Investments, an investment manager with a focus on alternatives such as insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bonds, have recently been expanding the geographic reach of their flagship ILS investment fund the Plenum CAT Bond Fund.

As the primary catastrophe bond market slowed in June, with only a single cat bond transaction being issued  by Loma Re Ltd., the secondary market continued to be calm and saw insurance-linked securities investors holding onto their positions in response to the lack of new investment opportunities.

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.

Plenum Investments, an investment manager with a focus on alternatives such as insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bonds, saw some small recoveries in catastrophe bonds exposed to Japanese earthquake risks in their portfolio during April according to their latest report on their cat bond fund performance.

Plenum Investments, a respected manager with a focus on alternatives such as insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bonds, saw a 3.3% decline in their Plenum Cat Bond Fund in March due to exposure to the earthquake in Japan through cat bonds they hold positions in.