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Elementum’s John DeCaro talks to the Swiss publication, Le Temps, about ILS as an asset class and why investors should be interested. Originally published in French in the May 2017 issue of Switzerland’s Le Temps Magazine – “L’attrait des Insurance-Linked-Securities (ILS) pour les investisseurs.”

Institutional Investor talks to industry execs, including Elementum’s Tony Rettino and John DeCaro, on the growth of the ILS market. Managers who absorbed insurance losses on catastrophes in 2017 had their worst year ever — and investors can’t get enough.

Elementum Partner and Head of Analytics, Jake Weber, discusses the importance of active management and proprietary risk analysis as part of Elementum’s overall view of risk in Hedgeweek’s Insurance-linked Securities in Focus 2021 special report.

Elementum announces new hire to its Business Development & Investor Relations team.

Elementum announces new leadership addition to its internal Information Technology team.

New mandate targets riskier tranches of investments with higher return potential.

Reinsurance risk is clearly diversifying against pension funds’ core financial market risks. But Martin Steward writes on the importance of defining objectives beyond simple diversification when investing in this asset class.

Investors cannot get enough of the catastrophe bond market, writes Charlotte Moore, but the potential for equilibrium, albeit at lower returns, is there.

It is not always easy to tell what someone means when they talk about ‘insurance-linked investments’ – but distinctions are imperative because the various components of this complex market present very different risk and return profiles.