The main UCITS catastrophe bond funds as a group lifted their assets under management (AUM) significantly during 2021, to a new high of just over US $8.64 billion, representing 28% growth in AuM year-on-year.
We’ve tracked the growth of the UCITS catastrophe bond fund market and launched a new page featuring charts detailing this growth in cat bond fund assets, with the help of partner Plenum Investments AG, a specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) and cat bond investment manager.
With the overall catastrophe bond market having grown rapidly in 2021, taking annual issuance to a new record, as documented in our latest report, these UCITS cat bond funds and their managers have benefited, by being able to welcome new inflows from investors and expand their strategies, to support the reinsurance needs of the ceding company base.
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