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Swiss insurance-linked securities investment manager Plenum Investments may target UK retail investors with its catastrophe bond fund if there is sufficient interest to bring the fund there, according to comments from Plenum’s chief executive Rainer Grünig. Quoted in the FT Adviser, Grünig said that the Plenum CAT Bond Fund, which is currently available in Swiss […]

Investment manager GAM have announced that they are going to be operating a waiting list on new subscriptions to their GAM Star Cat Bond fund due to capacity constraints in the sector. The UCITS-compliant fund which launched in Q4 last year has apparently been seeing strong investor demand and it seems that this demand has […]

French supermarket retailer Carrefour, who have more 4,500 retail outlets in the country, is turning to a weather risk management information provider to assist them in making better decisions on merchandising and product selection. Through the deal with weather forecaster and data provider Metnext, Carrefour will integrate weather data into their sales forecasting and understanding […]

Another week, another article in the press discussing the growing interest in catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities amongst the investment community. eFinancialNews.com (a Dow Jones franchise) carries an article (titled ‘Investors see opportunity in devastation risk’) today discussing the merits of cat bonds and other ILS and the growing interest in them from investors who […]

Investment manager GAM has announced the launch of a UCITS version of their catastrophe bond fund today. GAM Star Cat Bond is a UCITS-compliant fund which aims to deliver stable and attractive returns from a diversified basket of underlying catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities. They are seeking to provide attractive returns which are not correlated […]