ILS investors
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Cat bond funds continue to draw interest as private ILS more challenged.
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The subject business of the deal is Ascot’s ~$1bn property portfolio.
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The proportion of total fund assets invested in non-life ILS held steady at 0.6%.
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Florian Steiger’s strategy is seeking institutional capital for the Q4 primary issuance season.
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The ILS allocation has posted returns of 5.5% for the year to date.
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The pension scheme’s holdings in ILS delivered varying returns in run-off.
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The Swedish fund AP2 invests in Fermat GAM, Elementum and Credit Suisse.
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The Canadian pension plan’s investment rose to 1.2% of its total fund.
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Sources said that Gallagher Re had ‘first mover’ advantage as the exclusive broker.
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Sub-1% management fee and performance fee-only structures have evolved in ILS.
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The regulation now allows pension funds a more flexible benchmark for measuring alternatives.
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The Canadian pension’s sole remaining ILS allocation is with Fermat.
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The capital will be deployed by Bermuda-based special purpose insurer Arachne.
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Gordon was set to join start-up brokerage Juniper Re last month.
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The pension fund’s ILS allocation as of the end of 2023 was CHF300.3mn ($356.8mn).
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Various trends may work together to hold the cat markets up for longer than some had feared.
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ILS returned 3.2% for the scheme in the first quarter.
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The new global bond fund can take a ‘marginal allocation’ to cat bonds.
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The fund is a continuation vehicle for five of HSCM's life insurance interests.
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The platform’s ILS holdings comprise cat bonds and UCITs funds, and were up 8% over January and February.
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The pension fund handed an ILS mandate to Hiscox in September 2023.
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Retained earnings resulting from reduced loss activity also helped to boost ILS capital.
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The group has also scaled back holdings with AlphaCat’s Soteria Fund.
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The platform distributed ~$50mn to investors for 2023.
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The fund will follow an existing Twelve strategy and add short-term corporate bonds.
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The Cayman Islands entity raised $2.4mn last June.
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ILS platform London Bridge II has had a good year as volumes reached $750mn, the CFO said.
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It is only the second year in the last eight that the allocation grew.
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Head of alternatives Gareth Abley believes the asset class remains attractive following a 16% return in 2023.
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The firm was founded in 2015 to help clients raise capital.
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Aside from the one-year view, 2023 remixes the track record.
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The allocation last autumn amounted to around 1.4% of the investment manager’s total funds under management.
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The asset manager’s largest ILS allocation across two multi-strategy funds is to a Leadenhall fund.
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The fund will promote environmental and social characteristics under Article 8 of the SFDR.
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The asset manager’s flagship ILS funds posted stellar returns for its 2023 fiscal year.
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TRUE will use the capital injection to provide underwriting capacity in Florida “at a crucial time” and to expand its footprint nationally, according to a statement.
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The US pension fund investor had altered its ILS portfolio, with a new investment to Pillar in 2021.
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The Australian sovereign wealth fund first allocated to the ILS manager in 2016.
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This latest funding round brings total committed capital for the collateralized reinsurer to $75mn.
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The firm’s follow-only Syndicate 2358 has grown its stamp by 67% to £150mn.
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ILS managers are still waiting for hard market growth.
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Research by Kepler Absolute Hedge showed that seven out of the 10 best-performing alt credit funds were cat bond strategies.
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The fund’s allocation to ILS decreased for the first time in three years.
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As of year-end 2022, the fund’s largest ILS allocation was in a RenRe fund.
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The fund has been adapting its investment strategy in light of inflation and rising interest rates.
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Stress-test numbers were increased to 112, including scenarios of losses in multiple years, up from 105.
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Fermat’s John Seo said the industry can “see the wall of money coming in, but it’s coming in slowly”.
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The fund is on course for its strongest year of returns since inception in 2014.
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The IOP will be integrated into the Open Protocol reporting template.
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The Middle Eastern investor had built up a billion-dollar portfolio, but personnel turnover has ultimately driven it to reverse course.
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A challenge facing the industry in the years to come is the question of how can it move through a rotation of its investor base to capture the growth opportunities that have arisen.
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Ambassador was set up in 2021 with Embassy Asset Management the named investment adviser.
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Interest income also boosted the results, with net assets of $9mn rising to $10.8mn by the half-year point.
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The transaction covered a portfolio of $250mn in casualty risk premiums.
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The pension fund is seeking a strategy with “low or negative correlation to public equity”.
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The firm has moved to defend its plans against a rival strategy supported by a small group of investors.
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The investment firm’s ILS holdings were worth around $746mn at year-end 2022.
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The UK asset manager’s ILS strategy is operating across six of its multi-asset funds.
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