superannuation

More Australian pension super funds have begun allocating to insurance-linked securities (ILS), according to Bloomberg, as the publisher names Rest Super and Host Plus as allocating to the space. Artemis has learned that Rest Super has invested with manager Twelve Capital for catastrophe bonds.

Colonial First State, one of the largest Australian institutional investors, is looking to deploy some of its near US $100 billion of assets into the catastrophe bond market, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Government instigated performance tests for Australian superannuation funds, so pension and retirement investment houses, could potentially have an effect of making investing into asset classes like insurance-linked securities (ILS) at scale more challenging, research suggests.