At a time when assets under management (AUM) have been climbing across alternative investment strategies and investors are carefully assessing their allocations and attracted to diversifying assets, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) niche has come out as top performer of the hedge fund world, Preqin has said.
The macro backdrop, which now sees investors actively seeking out relatively uncorrelated strategies and having money to put into alternatives at this time is important, as the performance of the ILS asset class over the last year is set to drive increasing interest, we believe.
Preqin, a provider of hedge fund and alternative investment data and analytics, reports on hedge fund categories performance to September 30th and provides an outlook for alternative investment flows as well.
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