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ILS is the first US-listed catastrophe bond ETF. It provides investors exposure to a non-correlated asset class through an actively managed portfolio of global catastrophe bonds. Catastrophe bonds, also known as Cat bonds, are financial instruments that transfer natural risk disasters from insurers to capital market investors. Insurers gain extra insurance protection while investors gain access to high yield returns. The fund exclusively holds high yield rated Cat bonds tied to natural disasters, called trigger events. These bonds may be issued by US and foreign insurers, reinsurers…
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ILS invests in a diversified portfolio of roughly 100 catastrophe bonds. These bonds cover a variety of disaster types, including hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires, and are diversified across different geographic regions and issuers to reduce dependence on any single event.
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Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF democratizes cat bond access for retail investors but has underperformed institutional peers since inception. ILS offers portfolio diversification and low volatility, with a high 11.8% coupon, but charges a steep 1.58% expense ratio. Performance has lagged: ILS returned +7% versus +14% for institutional SHRIX and ~11% for the Swiss Re Cat Bond Index.
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While the ETF industry is sometimes scrutinized for packaging niche investments into a retail wrapper, ETFs have historically been one of the key ways to democratize access to legitimate “hard-to-reach” investment strategies. The ETF wrapper has made many of these exposures more convenient to buy and easier to incorporate into portfolios.