Schroders

Schroders Capital has announced the appointment of Sabrina Meng as Head of Business Development, Asia. In this role, she will drive fundraising in the region for the firm’s Private Debt and Credit Alternatives (PDCA) business, which will include insurance-linked securities (ILS).

This morning it has been announced that Nuveen, a US asset manager subsidiary of TIAA, is set to acquire Schroders for around £9.9 billion, creating a significant global group with around US $2.5 trillion of assets under management, but notably for our market with the Schroders brand to be retained.

Schroders Capital’s insurance-linked securities (ILS) division has partnered with ETH Zurich, a public university in Zurich, Switzerland, to launch an industry-first independent research project that’s designed to enhance hurricane risk modelling for the ILS sector.

As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to expand, it still offers attractive opportunities for investors, with strong results over the past few years bringing increased investor capital into ILS funds, according to Mark Gibson, Senior Investment Director at Schroders Capital.

Underscoring the potential impacts of climate change across the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, ILS specialists at global asset management group Schroders have suggested that ILS managers should recalibrate risk assessments to reflect the climate change that has already occurred, and not just long-term projections.

Schroders Capital has posted strong early-year performance across its core catastrophe bond portfolios, benefiting from a deliberate underweight to wildfire risk that helped mitigate losses tied to the severe Los Angeles wildfires in January.

As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season nears, Schroders Capital’s insurance-linked securities (ILS) team is cautioning investors against overreacting to early-season forecasts, with Mark Gibson from the company highlighting the need for a continued focus on risk fundamentals and portfolio diversification.

Schroders Capital has announced that it has appointed Vikram Bhandari to the newly-created role of Head and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Schroders Capital Solutions, where he will be based in London, reporting to Ingo Heinen, Global Head of Business Development and Product.

This video features the final session of the day at our Artemis ILS Asia 2023 conference held in Singapore on July 13th 2023, a panel discussion with experienced insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment managers on the state of the market, in Asia Pacific and globally, as well as giving their ILS outlook.

Schroders, the global asset manager with a specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment management business, has updated the investment strategy and policy of its flagship UCITS catastrophe bond fund, the Schroder GAIA Cat Bond, to incorporate specific ESG and sustainability features.