Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF

ILS

Market cap $79.2M

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.

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.

Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF offers retail investors exposure to catastrophe bonds, a previously inaccessible fixed income niche. ILS provides uncorrelated returns versus traditional corporate credit, with an 8% distribution rate. The ETF's main advantages are diversification, high yield, and limited correlation to macroeconomic cycles, though risks include liquidity and lack of a track record.

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On this week's episode of ETF Prime, Kirsten Chang, senior industry analyst at VettaFi, joins Nate Geraci to discuss ETF launches from Unlimited, Cambria, iShares, Brookmont, and Teucrium. Later, BNY Mellon's Ben Slavin provides an update on the ETF share class structure and product innovation.

Brookmont Capital Management made its debut in the U.S. ETF market today with a groundbreaking CAT bond product, the actively managed Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF (ILS).  This first-of-its-kind ETF lists on the NYSE and provides investors access to catastrophe bonds (CAT).

DALLAS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $ILS #ETFs--Brookmont Capital Management Launches First U.S.-Listed Catastrophe Bond ETF (NYSE: ILS).