Pure-play cat bond funds keep pace, add 0.5% to rally in April

Pure-play cat bond investment funds gained another half percent in valuation in April, their twenty-third month of uninterrupted monthly gains in a rally that has yet to be shaken by continuing record new issuance, an index of bond fund pricing compiled by Plenum Investments has shown.

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