Speaking yesterday at the ILS Bermuda Convergence 2026 conference, Bob Smith, President & Co-CIO of fixed income and alternative solutions manager Sage Advisory, explained that he sees insurance-linked securities as an asset class that can expand the horizon of impact investing.
Smith is a strong proponent for investing into catastrophe bonds and other natural catastrophe linked insurance-linked securities, seeing them as particularly valuable diversifiers that over the long-term have also outperformed many other fixed income asset classes.
But, as well as the low-correlation and differentiated return features that cat bonds and ILS can bring to investors portfolios, Smith also believes strongly in the sustainable investment qualities of the asset class.
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