Twelve Capital
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The fund will follow an existing Twelve strategy and add short-term corporate bonds.
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Schwartz will set the firm’s investment process on its ILS, equity and debt strategies.
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Steiger is said to be moving to an “entrepreneurial” role after more than six years with the Zurich-based firm.
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The Florida hurricane season still has three months to run in a predicted above-average year.
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Idalia might add further aggregate erosion to several cat bonds covering various perils over an annual risk period, it stated.
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The ILS manager said returns on casualty ILS were "much higher than on the diversifying nat cat perils such as Italian quake or German flood".
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An imbalance of capital supply and demand led to strong increases to spreads at issuance for index-linked and indemnity bonds.
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The Zurich-based ILS manager has entered a partnership with the new life ILS firm set up by former Securis CUO Paul Whiting.
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The new fund launched earlier this year to invest in companies that are seeking to reduce their emissions.
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Martina Müller-Kamp will sit on the board of Twelve Capital’s holding company, while Caroline Clemetson and Andreas Knörzer join the board of Twelve Capita’s investment manager.
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The outcomes were better than the Swiss Re global cat bond index decline after the major hurricane.
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The Swiss ILS specialist pointed to potential impacts on Floodsmart, Florida indemnity and index-linked bonds.
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A flurry of selling in the secondary cat bond market is causing “weakness in pricing”, according to a note by Twelve Capital, as sources suggested investors are moving to free up capital for what is expected to be a bumper pre-hurricane season phase.
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The firm will look to grow its offerings on climate change and natural catastrophe risk.
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The fund will focus on later-stage investment in companies already known to Eos.
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Twelve Capital has promoted two executives to the new roles of co-managing partners to take on day-to-day management at the firm and head its group management committee.
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Daniel King-Robinson and Tobias Engeli have joined Twelve Capital from EFG Bank to work on sustainable and climate investing, which the firm said strengthened its ESG focus across portfolios for institutional clients.
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The company also appointed two senior distribution specialists to focus on expansion in the UK and the Nordic and Benelux regions.
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The executive was one of the Swiss bank’s most senior ILS executives and established their life fund.
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The firm signed up to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment a year ago.
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Recent investor inflows to its cat bond UCITS have brought it to over $1bn assets under management.
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The Insurance Capital Fund combines US wind cat bonds with subordinated debt issued by European insurers.
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Significant start-up moves this month included Kathleen Faries and Julia Henderson joining Lavant and Piers Cantlay signing up to join McGill.
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