Two factors are currently being looked on very favourably by any institutional investors that are researching the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class, the stability of an ILS investment managers’ assets over recent years, and importantly how the amount that was actually deployable has fluctuated.
End-investors we’ve spoken with, that are looking to either make their first ILS fund allocations, or looking to increase their allocations to the ILS space, say that capital stability is key.
They believe it provides a good bellweather for how an ILS fund manager has managed its way through the challenging catastrophe loss environment of recent years and how much trapping of capital their strategy has suffered.
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