Despite tighter spreads in the catastrophe bond market, Legal & General (L&G) intends to maintain its exposure to the asset class, with Alex Turner, Fund Manager Assistant, and Martin Dietz, Head of Diversified Strategies, noting the firm is prioritising portfolio integrity while awaiting more favourable entry points, rather than rotating out of the space.
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Risk modeller AIR Worldwide have issued a press release discussing how a new client of theirs, ILS Capital Management Ltd. a company established with the help of reinsurance industry veteran Don Kramer, has signed up to use their risk models and portfolio management tools for a portfolio of insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds and reinsurance contracts. […]
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Catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities seem to be in the news at least once a week with respect to their use as a diversifier for investment portfolios. A fortnight ago we wrote about the Australian investment advisor Ibbotson who suggested that insurance-linked securities were an ‘investment asset to withstand recession‘. Now Australian investment research house […]
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Much of our coverage on the investment side of the insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond market discusses the opportunities the asset class presents to institutional investors seeking non-correlated assets offering diversification to their portfolio. It’s rare that we write about diversification within an insurance-linked portfolio, so some insight gleaned from investment manager Clariden Leu’s recent […]
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