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
RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda-based reinsurance company and third-party ILS capital manager, has now officially launched its first UCITS compliant property catastrophe bond fund strategy, the RenaissanceRe Medici UCITS Fund, with $340 million of capital allocated, confirming our reporting from three months ago.Back on December 4th 2024, Artemis reported that RenaissanceRe (RenRe) was expected to become the … Read more
Disaster bond funds within the UCITS format had reached a mean return year-to-date of 6.35% by August 2nd 2024, which is the second-highest annual return for the reason that Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices began monitoring the market in 2011.The year-to-date return of this group of disaster bonds is barely second to the full-year … Read more