Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), a long-standing pension investor in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, has promoted Shavir Nagarwalla to the role of Managing Director, Head of Hedge Funds and Insurance Linked Securities.Nagarwalla has a background in investments at pension funds and endowments, with a focus on allocating to hedge funds, external managers and other … Read more
We’ve published this article as an earlier piece on UCITS catastrophe bond fund performance was incorrect, there was an error in the data we received. Based on new data, the average return of UCITS cat bond funds tracked by the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices was flat at the first pricing in May, but … Read more
In an increasingly volatile and uncertain financial world where the investment landscape has been exposed to unpredictable shocks, pension funds have been among the most affected by equity market declines and this is expected to further heighten the desire to diversify their asset portfolios.Stock market indices across major economies have fallen in the wake of … Read more
Editor’s note: This is a breaking news story and will be updated as details emerge.After a 24-hour period of high anxiety for the cybersecurity industry at the prospect of losing the CVE program, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said April 16 it plans on funding the highly valued program.CISA issued the following statement: … Read more
The average return of UCITS catastrophe bond fund strategies was 1.38% for the first-quarter of 2025, according to the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices. But lower-risk cat bond funds led the way by averaging 1.50% for the period as a group, as they generally had less exposure to the California wildfire cat bond mark-downs.March … Read more