Recording Date: Wednesday March 30, 2022 Understanding collateral requirements in captive insurance company structures is critical to determining capitalization needs and for many owners the viability of a captive program. In this SRS webinar, our panel of experts address questions such as why a captive can be required to post collateral, what forms of collateral are generally acceptable, how...

  Recording Date: Wednesday February 23, 2022 Description The number of captive insurance companies has been falling over the past five years, yet the on-going impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and a hard commercial insurance market has been driving interest in captives. Has this interest resulted in an uptick in captive numbers and utilization? In our annual market update, we take a look at...

Recording Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 Description With on-going IRS scrutiny of captives and more aggressive actions of states on self procurement taxes, is the current tax environment all negative for captive owners? In this webinar, we look at recent developments in captive taxation. Topics covered include: The latest developments in IRS scrutiny of captives Recent court cases Tax exempt...

Recording Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 Description How do you know your captive insurance company is in good order and ready for year-end filings and audit? In this webinar we look at new obligations facing captives and what owners and directors should be aware of and the questions they should be asking of their service providers. Specific topics covered include: What to expect for 2021...

Recording Date: Thursday, October 21, 2021 Description Over the last 10 years, the alternative reinsurance market has quadrupled in size to $97 billion with the convergence of the capital and insurance markets providing additional options for captives looking for reinsurance support. In this webinar, we look at the different forms of insurance-linked securities and how they are being used by...

Recording Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 Description Trade credit risk has historically been an extremely challenging asset for captives to handle. It’s revolving, granular and self-liquidating nature meant ‘point-in-time’ risk was always difficult to monitor. However, technology has now removed many of those challenges. Trade receivables are an increasingly critical asset class from a...

Recording Date: Thursday, July 15, 2021 Description This primer on captive insurance will provide you with essential information to understand the drivers behind the use of captives and different program structures, including how and when to form a captive. In this session we focus on how these captive basics differ between the US, Europe and Latin America. Topics covered in the webinar include:...

  Recording Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 Description Medical stop loss continues to be one of the fastest growing areas of captive use. While much of the activity has occurred among mid-to-small sized employees through group captive programs, larger employers are also using their single parent captives to insure a layer of medical stop loss risk and take more control over their health insurance...

Recording Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Description The commercial insurance market for Directors and Officers liability (D&O) has seen some of the largest premium increases in the commercial market over the past year with capacity also shrinking. Using a captive for D&O though is not straight forward. In this webinar we look at the challenges of captive use for D&O and where it may...

Recording Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 Description 2020 was a historic year for all sectors of the economy with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The captive insurance industry was no different, with the pandemic putting pressure on the industry at the same time as the commercial insurance market saw hardening premium rates. How did the industry address these conflicting pressures and...