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...

Recording Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Description The past couple of years have seen incremental changes in captive taxation including initial court cases involving captives taking the 831(b) election, state actions over self procurement taxes and the on-going effect of Federal tax reform. In this tax webinar we discuss the impact of these changes on the current captive taxation landscape...

Recording Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 Description A hardening commercial insurance market and the economic impact from the on-going pandemic are coming together to put pressure on captives to do more with less. With constraints on capital, how does a captive decide which opportunities it should be underwriting and how best to use that capital. In this webinar we look at the benefits of...

Recording Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Description With commercial market insurance rates hardening, many insureds are looking to captives as a potential solution. While captives have frequently been used for longer-tail risks, they can also be effective for property risks which have a shorter tail and higher severity lower frequency profile. They may even provide an answer to funding...

Recording Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 Description One of the strongest recent trends in the captive industry has been the participation of captives in medical stop loss programs. Small to mid-sized employees have used group captive programs to get some control over their health insurance costs and transparency into their claims data, while larger employers have been able to leverage...