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It pays to plan ahead (Captive Review)

Captives Captive Review January 13th 2009
Ben Glenn of BauknightPietras & Stromer tells us the importance of planning ahead when starting a captive

Employee Benefits in Captives - The Next Chapter

Captives Strategic Risk Solutions January 2nd 2009
Strategic Risk Solutions looks at developments and current trends in insuring employee benefits in captives.

Captives touted as the safe haven in time of uncertainty (Captive Review)

Captives Captive and Art Review November 30th 2008
Risk Managers have been advised to consider captive insurance as concern over the state of the commercial insurance market intensifies in light of the federal bailout of AIG and the ailing health of other notable insurers.

Capturing Environmental Captive Risk

Captives Captive Review November 1st 2008
Captive owners often shy away from placing environmental risk in their captives. If the risks can be quantified and effectively structured, however, an environmental programme should be considered. By Jeffrey Hubbard

Disciplined Investment (Risk Management/Alton Cogert)

Captives Strategic Asset Alliance September 12th 2008
Developing a successful, disciplined investment process for a captive means going beneath the surface to understand how each step in the process works together to produce solid results and then sticking to it.

Rent-a-Captive Taxes Demystified

Captives Anderson, Kill and Olick August 26th 2008
Captive insurance companies are now popular for tax planning in addition to risk management. In response, the IRS has developed an increasingly sophisticated set of standards for determining what is insurance over the past few years.

Soft market sees group captive decline but SME growth

Captives Captive Review August 22nd 2008
Increasing numbers of group captives are dying on the vine, but the soft market presents opportunities for smaller captives (in the US$3-5m premium range), according to a panel of captive experts.

Captive Re-domestication

Captives Strategic Risk Solutions July 20th 2008
Strategic Risk Solutions discuss establishing on-shore Risk Retention Groups as an alternative to re-domestication.

The Long Haul (Captive Review Article of the Month)

Captives Captive and Art Review June 27th 2008
It took two years for Swift Transportation to convince its truckers that a captive was right for them, but the firm and its insureds are now enjoying the rewards. By Gavin Bradshaw

Marsh Global Benchmarking Report 2008

Captives specandagg.com April 30th 2008
A recent Marsh study on captives has found that many captives could be more profitable.