Integral ILS Ltd. (“Integral” or the “Adviser”) is an investment management firm incorporated on
September 26, 2019 as a Bermuda exempted company. Integral specializes in providing investment
adviser services to funds that invest primarily in property catastrophe insurance and reinsurance
risk-linked instruments (“RLI”).
Integral’s co-founders and Managing Partners are Lixin Zeng and Richard Lowther, who together
own a controlling interest in common voting shares of Integral. Lixin Zeng is also the Chief
Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Investment Officer (“CIO”) and Richard Lowther is the Chief
Operating Officer (“COO”) and Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”) of Integral. Further information
on the ownership structure is available in Schedule A and B of Part 1 of Form ADV, publicly
available on the SEC’s website at:
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Integral provides investment advisory services to privately offered Bermuda domiciled fund
companies (the “Funds”), and institutional investors and sub-advisory services to funds located in
other jurisdictions. Our investment advisory services specialize in gaining risk exposure to private
market property catastrophe risks through the purchase of profit participation notes (“Notes”) issued
by, Integral Reinsurance Ltd. (“Integral Re”), a Bermuda exempted company established in June
2020 and registered as a Special Purpose Insurer under the Bermuda Insurance Act 1978 and related
regulations and investments in Catastrophe Bonds, as defined below. Integral Re provides risk
transformation services to the Funds is wholly owned by Integral Managers, Ltd., a holding
company owned and controlled by Richard Lowther. The proceeds of investments by the Funds in
the Notes issued by Integral Re are used as security to fully collateralize RLI transactions,
predominantly in the form of private market property insurance, reinsurance and retrocession
transactions selected by Integral which cover natural catastrophes and other insurance events.
While the RLI investments sourced by Integral are predominantly in the form of investments in
private market property catastrophe insurance, reinsurance and retrocessional transactions, other
RLI may include, but not be limited to, the following types of investments:
• Catastrophe bonds (“Cat Bonds”
1: principal-at-risk variable rate notes and other risk-linked
securities, and;
• Industry loss warranties (“ILW”): indemnity-based and non-indemnity-based, binary
reinsurance or derivative contracts triggered by industry-wide insurance losses,
and;
• Exchange or over-the counter risk-linked derivatives or futures and other securities or
investments the return of which is predominantly linked to the performance of the
underlying insurance or reinsurance transactions.
Each Fund or Client account is open for investment solely to prospective investors who are: (i) non-
U.S. Persons or (ii) U.S. Persons who are both “qualified purchasers,” as defined in the U.S.
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “U.S. Investment Company Act”) and
1 Please note that Cat Bonds are generally issued under Rule 144A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, such 144A
securities may only be purchased by clients/investors who are “qualified institutional buyers” (“QIB”). QIBs must in
the aggregate own and invest on a discretionary basis at least $100 million in securities of issuers that are not affiliated
with such a qualified institutional buyer. Certain risks associated with Cat Bonds are discussed in Item 8, below.
“accredited investors,” as defined in Regulation D under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “U.S. Securities Act”). In addition, each Subscriber must be a “qualified participant”
within the meaning of The Investment Funds Act 2006 of Bermuda. The Funds will conduct trading
activity pursuant to the investment strategies described generally below. Funds may be organized
and offered for private investors or may be customized for single investors or groups of investors
as agreed with Integral.
Integral does not tailor its advisory services to the individual needs of Investors (although Integral’s
advisory services are tailored to meet the investment mandates of the Funds, as described in the
Funds’ offering documents) or pursuant to an investment management agreement in the case of sub
advised Funds.
The Funds may enter into side letter agreements with certain Investors. Such agreements may
provide such Investors with most favored nation (“MFN”) status; including reduced fees, capacity
rights, additional transparency and reporting, among others that vary from those described in the
Funds’ offering documents. The Funds generally enter into side letters only with Investors who
make substantial commitments of capital.
Integral does not participate in wrap fee programs.
Integral has approximately $2.6 billion in regulatory assets under management on behalf of non-
US based clients, as of January 1, 2024, for the private funds and for the sub advised fund.
Regulatory Assets Under Management are calculated in the same manner as in Part 1 of Form ADV,
for private funds using the Gross Asset Value of each Fund plus uncalled but legally committed
capital.