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1. September 19, 2011: "The Insurance Broker PCC Model and its implications to the Insurance Brokerage Industry" by Dr. Chris Cachia of Ganado & Associates Advocates in Malta. "The Maltese insurance industry has recently witnessed the establishment of the first insurance broker protected cell company (PCC). This was a first both in the local and European market and presents developments and possibilities to the manner in which traditional insurance brokerage companies carry out their business. It also provides an easier entry into the insurance brokerage market to entities which did not have either the capacity or resource to do so..." [Download full story]
2. August 8, 2011: "Foreign Protected Cell Insurance Companies" by Prof. William H. Byrnes | Associate Dean William H Byrnes and Benjamin S Terner, International Tax and Financial Services Graduate Programme of Thomas Jefferson School of Law. First published in Tax Talk, South Africa. Reprinted with permission. "Last year, the National Treasury released a media statement entitled ‘Ongoing Investigation– Offshore Captives and Protected Cell Companies’; the statement was released along with the Taxation Laws Amendment Bills, 2010. Its purpose was to highlight the ongoing review of tax issues relating to offshore captives and protected cell companies..." [Download full story]
   
3. January 18, 2011: "Integrating US Risks For Canadian Parent Corporations" by Steven Beeghly.This paper offers an American perspective highlighting use of a captive insurance company for Canadian businesses, groups, pools, entities, associations, and producers with potential loss and liability exposure from operations and exports to the US.  Discussion of a variety of purposes of using a captive insurance company to treat these exposures and an overview for Canadians as to the process of determining whether a captive would make economic sense.
4. October 20, 2010: AAM's Director of Structured Products and the company's Financial sector credit analyst summarize expected and possible effects of the moratorium on foreclosures in this interesting article, "Foreclosure Moratorium: Another Fly in the Housing Ointment."
5. September 17, 2010: CHRISTCHURCH EARTHQUAKE - WHO PAYS THE FOUR BILLION DOLLAR DAMAGE BILL? by John Sloan from Sloan Risk Management in New Zealand. If you would prefer to download this fine white paper in Word, visit the Sloan Risk Management website.
6. July 24, 2010: From the July 2010 Actuarial Edge Newsletter published by Bartlett Actuarial Group Ltd. -- Insurance and Financial Strategies Using Captive Insurance Companies by By Jeffrey Altman, FSA, MAAA. A brief article filled with helpful information.
7. Updated Version, May 15, 2010: Freedom in Captivity. This well-written white paper was written by Jan Dash and Herman Liburd from the law firm of Liburd and Dash. A portion of the paper is specific to the captive domicile, Nevis, but the vast majority of it comprises a cohesive "Captives 101" summary, which is always in high demand at captive.com.
8. October 9 2009: Introduction to Risk Finance for Captives. In this 19-page paper, the author, James Mounty, of Miller Insurance Services Ltd, London, supplies an in-depth introduction to insurance and risk financing. Graphs and illustrations make complex ideas clear and understandable for the novice. The paper not only gives helpful information on the basics of insurance and risk finance, but then goes on to apply these concepts with case studies and applications, including the use of captives to finance risk. This is truly an outstanding paper.
9. August 17, 2009: INTRODUCING DELAWARE’S NEW CAPTIVE TEAM -- CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO QUALITY, CONSISTENCY, ACCESSIBILITY, AND GROWTH by Neil B. Glassman, Marla Hirshmann Norton and Gianclaudio Finizio of the Bayard Law Firm in Wilmington.
10. October 2, 2008: Captives: Why the Isle of Man? An excellent summary outlining why it might just make sense to domicile your captive in the Isle of Man. The article features a sidebar initially describing the upcoming 2008 conference. Post-conference, the authors will update the sidebar with a summary of conference highlights! Captive.com has supplied helpful links to domicile and association websites.
11. August 6 2008: FOMC PAUSED WITH A NEUTRAL TONE. Captive.com thanks our friends at TD Banknorth for this valuable commentary from TD Economics on the U.S. FOMC interest rate decision.
12. April 2008: White Paper on Captive Insurance Companies prepared for the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, prepared by the NzCIA. This is a good Captive Basics white paper, and contains helpful information on New Zealand as a domicile.
13. January 2008: IRS Issues Guidance with Respect to “Cell” Companies. This is an imporStant article written by a long-time friend of captive.com, Rick Irvine, Partner, Tax Services, with PWC in Bermuda. Our thanks to Rick for sharing this information.
14. July 27, 2007: The 2006 Captive Act Amendments: Revolutionizing Protected Cell Laws in the District by Stephen F. Donahoe, Muldoon Murphy & Aguggia LLP. On March 14, 2007, the District of Columbia amended its captive insurance laws by enacting the Captive Insurance Company Amendment Act of 2006 (the “2006 Amendments”). The 2006 Amendments update segregated cell provisions included in the District’s Captive Insurance Company Acts of 2000 and 2004 and offer clear advantages over other domestic domiciles with respect to protected cell flexibility. [more...]
15. Market Briefing: Group Captives -- Competing In a Soft Market. This outstanding article, was shared with us by an old captive.com friend, Andrew Berry of Newport Risk Services. Andrew expertly analyzes the competitive challenges facing group captives, their inherent competitive advantages and strategies to compete. The briefing is focused on group captives including risk retention groups. The discussion also applies to other group risk financing mechanisms such as governmental pools and self-insured workers compensation groups.
16. July 17, 2007: Just posted to the News section of the New Zealand Captive Insurance Association (NZCIA) website, see article entitled Taking Advantage of Captives, written by Peter Lowe, New Zealand manager, Willis Risk Solutions. In this article, Peter fleshes out the advantages of New Zealand's regulations regime on captive insurance.
17. Ohio Agent Credited With 'Captives', by Christopher Kramer, MBA, posted on June 1, 2007, previously appearing in The National Underwriter Magazine. [Follow this link to the NU website]. The article describes how Fred Reiss, an Agent based in Ohio, transformed the insurance industry by establishing a captive for his largest client back in 1955. Mr. Reiss will be inducted into the Insurance Hall of Fame in Berlin, Germany, later this year. This fine article adds to the affirmation that captive insurance strategies have changed the way risks are insured - globally.
18. "Contractors Take Control: Construction Firms Are Managing Insurance Risks and Reducing Costs With Their Own Captive Insurance Companies," by Dan Keough, Innovative Captive Strategies, an affiliate of Holmes Murphy & Associates.
19. "How Risk Control Saves Money for Alternative Market Programs -- General Liability Residential Contractors," by Larry Bailey, CSP, ECS Risk Control, Inc. an XL Capital company (XLRC)
20. A follow-up memorandum to the terrorism presentation given by Robert H. Myers, Jr., Partner, Insurance Group, Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP entitled "Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002."
21. What is a "Reciprocal" or "Reciprocal RRG"?
22. "Redomicile Your Captive in Malta
23. "I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends" -- Choosing The Right Captive Service Providers
24. Winds of Change, Marsh’s merger story, contributed by Pageant Media's "Captive Review,"available in PDF format only.
25. Why Dream of Captives in Today's Insurance Market? Contributed by Liberty Mutual, October 29, 1998
26. Equipment Breakdown Insurance: It's Not Just About Boilers Anymore posted 2/23/99
27. Captive Insurers Likely to Grow in New York posted 11/14/98
28. COORDINATED DEFENSE PROGRAMS: HISTORY, and ACTION posted 10/14/98
29. Risk Management...Por Favor (Risk Management in Latin America); posted 5/27/97
30. Keeping Your Captive Competitive
31. Reinsurance
32. A One Stop Risk Management Resource
33. A Strategy for the Niche Customer
34. Nine Reasons to Form a Captive
35. What is a Captive?
36. Twelve Tips on Selecting a Domicile
37. Why Use Financial Guarantees?
38. What is Fronting?
39. What is the Difference Between Self-insured and Uninsured?
40. What is a Captive Program?
41. What are the NAIC and the SVO?
42. What is Risk-Based Capital?
43. Banking, Insurance and the Repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act