RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda based reinsurance company and third-party capital manager, looks set to be the most recent to supply a UCITS insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund, with a fund structure now registered in Ireland under its Medici brand, so presumably this shall be a cat bond strategy, Artemis has learned.
The RenaissanceRe Medici ICAV has been authorised by the regulator in Ireland on November 1st and the UCITS ICAV structure may have a single sub-fund, the RenaissanceRe Medici UCITS Fund.
The RenaissanceRe Medici UCITS Fund has also been accepted under the ISDA protocol on November thirteenth, Artemis understands.
At this stage we haven’t been in a position to source a prospectus for the brand new UCITS insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund from RenaissanceRe (RenRe), but given the recency of its authorisation that will not be surprising.
While we cannot yet make sure that is going to be a pure catastrophe bond focused UCITS fund strategy, it stands to reason it likely shall be given the Medici branding RenRe has given to it.
Medici has been a long-standing brand name for RenRe’s catastrophe bond focused ILS investment strategies.
The RenaissanceRe Medici Fund Ltd. has existed since 2009, but only began taking third-party capital into the strategy in 2013.
At September thirtieth 2024, the Medici catastrophe bond focused strategy had roughly $1.98 billion in assets under management, $1.68 billion of which was from third-party investors, the remaining from RenRe itself.
RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, the reinsurance firms dedicated unit for third-party and insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital management, counted $7.72 billion in third-party investor assets under management at September thirtieth this 12 months.
But, the full firepower of the reinsurance joint-ventures and ILS funds managed by RenaissanceRe Capital Partners reached $9.26 billion at the moment, which was the very best level tracked by Artemis up to now.
As such, the planned launch of its first UCITS investment fund strategy, this RenaissanceRe Medici UCITS Fund, is notable, as RenRe looks to draw a potentially differentiated source of investor capital to its cat bond focused strategies through this recent structure.
As a bunch, the present cohort of UCITS catastrophe bond funds counted over $13 billion in assets between them at the top of the third-quarter of 2024.
In keeping with the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices, the cohort of current UCITS cat bond funds were averaging a 12.27% return for 2024 as much as November twenty second.
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