Catastrophe bond funds within the UCITS format tracked by the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices averaged a 1% return for November, taking their year-to-date return to a median of 12.57%.
It’s indicative of the continued strong returns being enjoyed by catastrophe bond investors in 2024, with this already set to be the second-best return for this Index since its inception.
In reality, the 12.57% return for 2024 as much as and including November twenty ninth, is now double the common return achieved by UCITS cat bond funds in 2013, the subsequent best 12 months of performance.
The rolling 30-day return can be higher than the 1% average return for the 29 days of November. Looking back to the closest Index pricing date before that of October twenty fifth, the common return of UCITS catastrophe bond funds for that just over one month period was actually a really impressive 1.63%.
With one month still to go until the full-year figures can be found for the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices, the entire for 2024 might even see a median UCITS cat bond fund performance of approaching 13.5%, it now seems.
The rolling twelve-month return, on average, for this UCITS cat bond fund index has now reached 13.25%.
Lower-risk cat bond funds tracked by the Index are actually averaging 12.31% year-to-date and 12.90% for the last 12-months.
For the higher-risk group of cat bond funds this Index tracks, the YTD average has reached 12.73% and the 12-month rolling return is sitting at 13.49%.
As we reported earlier, the catastrophe bond market yield dipped to 10.31% at the top of November, on seasonality and attributable to tightening.
With the hurricane season now over, it is predicted the yield widens again, reflecting the attractive opportunities available in catastrophe bond investments presently.
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