AuM data
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The award of the mandates marks the California public pension plan’s entry into ILS. -
Returns from cat risk investments stood at 20.1% for the year to 30 June 2025.
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The allocation is around 3% of the fund’s total assets.
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The manager’s largest ILS holding is in the cat-bond-heavy High Yield fund.
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Victory Pioneer Cat Bond Fund also added assets in the past month.
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Reinsurers are confident on cat rates and ready to deploy ILS capital.
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The merged business of Twelve Securis ranked third among ILS managers for AuM, behind Fermat and RenRe.
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The fund was renamed from the Pioneer Cat Bond Fund.
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The recommended “AIF lite” structure could be suited to cat bond lites.
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The Diversified Alternative Fund’s allocation to cat bonds was up by 31% from $386mn at 31 January.
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Twelve Securis is now a challenger for the top spot on the Insurance Insider ILS leaderboard.
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The pensions scheme’s existing ILS holdings to Aeolus and HSCM are in run-off.
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The fund lists Twelve, Swiss Re and Cambridge Associates as managers.
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AuM in GAIA Cat Bond Fund had grown to $3.9bn as of 31 May.
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The firm said it was the first time a UCITS cat bond fund passed the $4.0bn mark.
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The fund was set up 18 months ago by cat bond investor Florian Steiger.
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This followed a $650mn fall in April, after management change of the fund.
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The Swiss pension fund has not disclosed an ILS allocation before.
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Some assets in the Medici Fund were transferred to a new UCITS strategy.
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The ILS manager’s total AuM increased to $2.2bn in 2024 from $1.7bn the year prior.
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Fermat and GAM announced that the former will take sole control of the GAM FCM Cat Bond Fund.
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January’s California wildfires meant third-party investors suffered a loss of $195.3mn.
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The Swiss rail pension scheme has been cutting its ILS allocation since 2018.
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The Swiss pension fund’s ILS allocation stood at 4.9% of the total fund as of 25 March.
