The acceleration of activity in the global catastrophe bond market over the last few months could now drive an opportunity for a number of multi-strategy investment funds to expand, as the availability of paper has increased even causing some investment managers to lift the shutters on closed funds, we understand.
Which could drive more capital to look at catastrophe bonds and perhaps other insurance-linked securities (ILS), or the more structured collateralised reinsurance opportunities such as sidecars.
Given a lot of the multi-strategy investment funds that look at cat bonds and other ILS are open to retail money as well, these investment managers would really like to see listed opportunities, or assets with greater liquidity, which could even drive interest among specialist ILS managers or reinsurance firms to revisit the listed fund strategy again.
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