Cat bond funds buck the UCITS trend, growing as sector saw $38bn outflows: Kepler

Catastrophe bond funds were a bright spot in the alternative UCITS investment fund space in 2023, as cat bond funds expanded strongly at a time when the wider UCITS segment experienced approximately $38 billion in outflows, according to Kepler Absolute Hedge.

As we reported back in January, our tracker of UCITS catastrophe bond fund assets under management displays a year with very strong asset growth for these insurance-linked securities (ILS) strategies.

In fact, the UCITS cat bond fund sector experienced very impressive growth in 2023, with in assets across the full-year rising 25%, or just over $2.16 billion growth in dollar terms.

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