Fermat Capital Management expects the hedge box that the disaster bond market will grow by 20 % this year, as a disaster product that acquires land in a world that is increasingly formed due to harsh weather, population density and inflation.
John Seo, the administrative director and co -founder of Fermat, said in an interview that the market “reached a turning point.”
He said, “The main thing is inflation,” which makes it more expensive in Europe and the United States to rebuild property destroyed by natural disasters.
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Prediction of growth in Fermat means that the CAT bond market, which is usually issued by insurance companies that look forward to emptying severe risks on capital markets, will reach $ 60 billion by the end of 2025.
The bonds have surpassed other high -yielding markets in recent years, and even managed to sail through the unrest resulting from US President Donald Trump’s war. On this background, the product that was previously preserved for very advanced investors now attracts a wide range of buyers.
Fermat is among the companies that have started to provide access to the Cat bonds via Ucits, a product that opens the door for retailers. This year witnessed the presentation of the first trading box in the world on the basis of cat bonds.
Investors stand in cat bonds, their capital loss in the event of a pre -determined catastrophe, but they can reap huge rewards if it does not happen. If payments are not operated by a natural disaster, bonds are organized to operate well when treasury revenue rises. Over the past year, they returned about 14 %, according to an indicator assembled by Swiss Re.
Maria Dobsku, great manager at Mooringstar Inc. said. “It was a very benign period for disaster bonds.”
The market growth came with a degree of reorganization. Last month, Fermat was suddenly expelled from a two -year -old agreement with GAM Holding Ag to participate in a $ 3 billion portfolio management of cat bonds. Instead, the Zurich -based asset manager is cooperating with a Swiss Re Unit, the main source of CAT bonds, to oversee funds.
GAM decision to end its agreement with Fermat followed a major amendment to the flows between the two companies. Between the end of March and the end of April, Fermat’s cat funds received new customer funds equivalent to about $ 1.1 billion, while GAM has witnessed approximately $ 1.2 billion in the customer’s recovery.
ROM Abyv, head of securities associated with Insurance at GAM, said earlier this month that the recoveies “are very common during structural transition periods and manager’s change.” He said that the GAM partnership with Swiss Reo generates the customer’s attention now.
SEO said at the time that customers “expressed a concept warning” in the sudden and signed GAM decision “to end its relationship with Fermat.
Swiss Ren said she sees development an opportunity to target more innovation and product growth.
“The market is not only growing in size, but in width and diversification in terms of sponsors and in the types of risk that is transferred,” said Christopher Minter, president of Swiss Ri Capital Partners.
SEO says Swiss Re “indicates a new level of seriousness and we welcome this,” adding that “the investor pie grows very quickly there is enough business.”
Scope
GAM Partnership with Swiss Re Securities Group associated with insurance (ILS) is $ 6.9 billion, including $ 3.7 billion of CAT bonds.
“I will be very disappointed if we are not worn by one of the leaders of the ILS market in the short to the average,” Minter said.
Fermat is often overseeing a $ 10 billion wallet of cat bonds, while twelve Sikoris – a company is the product of a modern integration between twelve heads on capital and Securis – runs $ 8.5 billion of ILS assets, including $ 6 billion in cat bonds and the rest in ILS private deals.
SCAE allows the Asset Manager to deal better with the complexity of cat portfolios, including areas such as specialized risk moderation for compliance and money distribution.
“To attract institutional investors, you need size,” he said.
The organizers encouraged growth in the ILS market. The European Central Bank, the European Professional Insurance and Pension Authority called for an increase in the use of CAT bonds in the European Union, where only about a quarter of climate disaster losses are currently. In the United Kingdom, the PRUDENTIAL Organization recently suggested that the approved times of “private targets for insurance” to 10 days from 4-6 weeks.
“The UK ISPV system has witnessed limited absorption since its introduction in 2017,” said PRA in November. “Due to the importance of speed in this market, the fastest mandate means faster time to market some ISPvs in the UK like cat bonds.”
Cat bonds appeared from the hurricane season last year relatively safe. Meteorologists expect that the Atlantic Hurricane season will be more active than usual, with three to five main storms.
Dobrescu from Mooringstar says climate change makes it difficult for the cats forms to pick up a full set of upcoming risks.
“She may not hold some induction,” she said. “In the long run, it is difficult to know where the absolute returns will fall.”
Swiss Re plans to navigate in the event of uncertainty by taking advantage of the 190 risk models that it runs. The company also has 50 internal scientists specializing in disaster.
Any concerns about conflicting interests-with a Swiss chest and director of CAT-baseless boxes.
She said that there are “very strict policies and procedures” to keep these functions separate.
Meanwhile, the market continues to grow.
“The cat’s bonds fill the gap between the additional demand for reinsurance and reduce the ability to reinsure the insurance companies to accommodate these risks,” said Seo. The great driver behind this development is the high rebuilding price after disaster strikes.
“The inflation has increased from the primary risk of the risk by 50 % in the nominal dollar during the previous five years,” he said.
What Bloomberg says …
The size of the CAT bond market has doubled over the past decade, as retail investors in disaster bond funds have risen in convertible stock pledges (Ucits) to a 30 % stake in the market as of 1Q of 12 % in 2015.
Alawite image: a fall tree and a clogged car after hurricanes Helen and Milton in Saint -Pitch, Florida, in October 2025; Credit image: Tristan Wilok/Bloomberg.
