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Eaton Vance mutual fund ILS holdings reach nearly $777 million; Jaffa allocation reported, Swiss Re top-up inferred

Artemis reported nearly $777 million in ILS and reinsurance-sidecar positions across three Eaton Vance strategies at July 31, 2026. It reported a new Jaffa Capital Fund allocation and inferred, but did not confirm, an added Swiss Re investment.
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Artemis reported that insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund structures, segregated accounts and reinsurance sidecars held through three Eaton Vance mutual fund strategies were valued at nearly $777 million on July 31, 2026. The report identifies a new Jaffa Capital Fund allocation; an additional investment in Swiss Re’s Core Nat Cat Fund is Artemis’s inference, not a confirmed transaction.

Which Eaton Vance strategies hold the reported positions?

The aggregate covers Eaton Vance Global Opportunities, Global Macro and Global Macro Absolute Return Advantage. Eaton Vance is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, according to Artemis. The nearly $777 million is a combined figure across those three strategies, not the value of a single fund.

Artemis’s October 5, 2026 report gives three snapshots of the tracked positions:

Valuation date Reported value Change noted by Artemis
October 31, 2025 Just over $300 million —
April 30, 2026 Nearly $680 million —
July 31, 2026 Nearly $777 million 14% rise from April 30, 2026

These are reported portfolio values at the stated dates. The latest valuation date is July 31, 2026; October 5 is the report’s publication date.

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What changed in the named holdings?

Jaffa Capital Fund: a reported new allocation

Artemis reported a new allocation of just over $40 million to Jaffa Capital Fund from two of the Eaton Vance strategies. The report describes Jaffa’s approach as investing in property-and-casualty reinsurance sidecars and private quota shares. It does not identify which two strategies made the allocations.

Swiss Re Core Nat Cat Fund: a reported value increase, with an inferred top-up

The position in Swiss Re’s Core Nat Cat Fund, under 1863 Fund Ltd., was valued at just over $103 million on April 30 and more than $147 million on July 31, according to Artemis. The outlet said the increase appeared too large to be explained by returns alone and inferred that Eaton Vance had made an additional investment. The report does not establish that transaction as confirmed.

Other July 31 positions

Investment or structure Reported value or change Detail in Artemis’s report
Beacon RE $92.8 million —
PartnerRe reinsurance sidecar $119 million —
George Street Re Almost $63.7 million QBE’s casualty sidecar
Mt. Logan Re Over $153 million Parented by Everest
PartnerRe ILS Fund SAC Ltd. Almost $77 million —
Voussoir Re A little over $74 million Arch Capital’s vehicle
Eden Re II Just under $10 million Munich Re position; down from $68 million in October 2025 after the strategy was shuttered earlier in 2026

How large were these positions within each strategy?

Artemis reported that the positions represented 3.7% of Global Opportunities, 1.3% of Global Macro and 2% of Global Macro Absolute Return Advantage as of July 31, 2026. The report does not provide a strategy-by-strategy breakdown of the dollar holdings in the figures above, so the absolute amounts should not be used to rank the strategies by risk. Portfolio share is not itself a measure of risk: the positions span different structures and exposures, and the percentages do not describe how losses might behave under a particular catastrophe or market event.

What the nearly $777 million figure does—and does not—show

Artemis compared the nearly $777 million July 31 value with a reported cost just over $647 million. That difference is not, by itself, a realized return or an investor’s gain. The report does not provide an independent performance methodology for those figures, and portfolio values can change without establishing what investors received after expenses, distributions or redemptions.

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The reported allocation is spread across multiple funds, segregated accounts and sidecars. That describes the forms and number of reported positions; it does not guarantee diversification, limit potential losses or establish future performance. The figures are attributed to Artemis. An SEC-filed Eaton Vance Mutual Funds Trust semi-annual report dated June 30, 2026 provides general guidance to consider a fund’s objectives, risks, charges and expenses and to read its prospectus, but it does not independently verify these July 31 ILS holdings.

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Can an individual investor buy these holdings directly?

The report concerns allocations made through mutual fund strategies and includes sidecars and private quota shares. It does not establish that retail investors can directly purchase the named sidecar or quota-share interests. Anyone considering an Eaton Vance fund should review that specific fund’s prospectus for its investment objectives, risks, fees and eligibility rather than treating the reported institutional positions as a retail investment offer.

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