Captives
Captive Review
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
Strategic Asset Alliance
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.
Anderson, Kill and Olick
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.
Captive Review
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.
Strategic Risk Solutions
Strategic Risk Solutions discuss establishing on-shore Risk Retention Groups as an alternative to re-domestication.
Captive and Art Review
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
specandagg.com
A recent Marsh study on captives has found that many captives could be more profitable.
Rough Notes
A soft market brings easier reinsurance and fronting terms as well as opportunities to clean up the balance sheet.
Strategic Risk Solutions
Strategic Risks Brady Young discusses the implications of IRS withdrawal of its proposed Regulation ?1.1502-13(e).
The National Underwriter, Property and Casualty
The Internal Revenue Service announced it has withdrawn a proposed regulation that if enacted could have driven captive insurance formations offshore, according to captive experts.
