Qube Research & Technologies (QRT), the global quantitative and systematic investment manager, has made another hire for its insurance-linked securities (ILS) team, adding Dr.John Ery an experienced ILS portfolio manager from reinsurance firm SI Re, Artemis has learned.Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) specialises in a technology and data-driven approach to allocation across liquid asset classes and entered the ILS market with an initial focus on investing in catastrophe bonds in late 2024.The company has been slowly adding expertise from established ILS and reinsurance market players, with this hiring of John Ery the latest example.

We understand that Ery will take up his new role at QRT from November.He will join the QRT ILS investment team and remain based in Zurich, taking on a position in the portfolio management team, presumably with a focus on catastrophe bonds although his expertise spans a broader range of ILS asset types.Ery has worked at SI Re in Zurich for almost 5 years, having joined the reinsurance arm of the SIGNAL IDUNA group in early 2021.

He began working at SI Re as an ILS analyst, before becoming an ILS portfolio manager in April 2024.In that role Ery has been managing the SI Re catastrophe bond portfolio, while also pricing and underwriting a range of ILS transactions, including instruments such as reinsurance sidecars, private collateralized reinsurance deals and ILWs.He has also been active in trading cat bonds in the secondary market and working on the optimisation of the portfolio as well, while assisting with the structuring and placement of the outwards retrocessional reinsurance program for SI Re.

Ery studied at ETH Zurich and went on to become a SCOR Fellow, participating in the joint PhD program between ETH Zurich and global reinsurer SCOR, ultimately achieving a mathematics PHD and becoming a certified actuary.He joins QRT at a time when the investment firm has been growing into the catastrophe bond market and Ery’s expertise and mathematical approach will be a good fit for the multi-strat quant investment manager it runs.QRT entered the ILS market with to lead an insurance-linked securities (ILS) strategy in late 2024.

The investment manager then in March 2025.We understand that QRT deployed hundreds of millions of dollars into largely new issuance catastrophe bonds through the first-half of 2025, with sources suggesting its portfolio may be around the billion dollar mark by now..All of our Artemis Live insurance-linked securities (ILS), catastrophe bonds and reinsurance can be accessed online.

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