Securis Investment Partners

Paul Richards, co-founder and CIO, oversees investment strategy and portfolio construction. George O'Leary, co-founder and CEO, handles firm management and client relationships. The investment committee includes both founders and senior portfolio managers (per Securis public record).

Securis sources deals through relationships with reinsurance brokers, insurance carriers, and sovereign risk managers. It participates in both public catastrophe bond auctions and private bilateral transactions, often structuring bespoke tranches for institutional accounts (public record).

Securis is an independent asset manager specializing in insurance-linked securities. It is not a family office and does not manage proprietary wealth. The firm is owned by its founding partners and operates under FCA regulation in the UK (per Securis communications).

Securis focuses on liquid and semi-liquid ILS instruments at the secondary market stage, as well as primary issuance of catastrophe bonds. It also invests in collateralized reinsurance contracts with typical durations of one to three years (public record).

Securis offers both pooled fund vehicles (the Securis Catastrophe Bond Fund) and segregated mandates for institutional investors. It also executes direct private ILS deals for larger accounts (per Securis marketing material).

Securis avoids all non-catastrophe risk, including life insurance, health insurance, credit, and property & casualty lines not linked to natural catastrophes. The firm focuses exclusively on peak perils like U.S. hurricane, European windstorm, and Japanese earthquake (public record).

Securis manages the Securis Catastrophe Bond Fund (ticker: SECB), a closed-end fund listed on the London Stock Exchange. The fund provides liquid exposure to a diversified portfolio of catastrophe bonds and is the primary vehicle for smaller institutional and wealth management clients (public record).