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CICR Index for 1988 - December 2009 in searchable PDF

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Captive Practices and Procedures Captive Practices and Procedures

How to Structure and Operate a Successful Captive Insurance Program

Author Kathryn Westover has set up and managed more than 50 successful captives during her 20-plus years of experience. This book will help you understand the accepted practices and procedures that support a captive’s ability to achieve its mission and purpose. Learn what it takes to establish a successful captive insurance company—one that sets the standard and withstands the test of time!

Learn How To Make Sure Your Captive is Built to Last

  • Use the components of a feasibility study to develop the strategic business plan

  • Read and understand a captive’s financial reports

  • Establish a captive management team that actively drives the achievement of the captive’s strategic goals

  • Develop a procedures manual that will actually be used

  • Turn “regulatory compliance” from a negative into a positive

  • Use performance analyses to reinforce stakeholder satisfaction
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Captives and the Management of Risk

IRMI's popular book, Captives and the Management of Risk, is designed to help newcomers and risk funding veterans alike understand the pros and cons of captives and apply proven concepts for strategic success. This comprehensive book breaks down the complex topic of captives, revealing the types of risk that can be handled by captives, why captives can be effective as a risk management tool, tax and accounting considerations, how to determine if a captive is feasible, how to choose a domicile, and how to manage and operate a captive. Captives and the Management of Risk is divided into 13 chapters, each one designed to answer a Captive Frequently Asked Question, or "CAPFAQ!"

This book is authored by Kathryn Westover, President of Captive Advisory Services, who has worked with risk funding programs for over 15 years. Ms. Westover takes the perspective of those working within the regulatory environment of the United States, and the guidelines and strategies she offers will assure your success in managing, participating in, or recognizing whether a captive is the best risk management option.

By Kathryn Westover, 216 pp., March 2002.

Print price, including shipping within the US: $70.00. Sales tax will be added on orders shipped to CA, CT, FL, GA, IA, KY, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA, Washington DC, and WI. Shipping charges will be passed on to the customer for orders outside the US.

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Captive Insurance Company Reports

CICR The use of captive insurance companies grew significantly in the soft market and is expanding rapidly in the hard market.. As a risk management or insurance professional, you can view traditional market change and the increasing use of the alternative market as either a threat or opportunity.

Written by the consultants at Towers Perrin, Captive Insurance Company Reports (CICR) is the first and most well-known periodical to focus on the alternative market. CICR covers reinsurance, tax, and regulatory developments in the captive industry. Each month it provides comprehensive reports and comparisons of new and existing captive domiciles. It also addresses reinsurance and fronting conditions and their effects on captives. Subscribers will also receive summaries of the proceedings from many conferences, assessments of the latest tax legislation, and the holdings of recent court cases. CICR's annual review issue, "Captive Scene Today," provides a definitive summary of the growth and the latest trends in this sector of the market. Subscribers to the electronic versions of CICR are provided a fully searchable archive of all issues published since August 1998

The July 2010 issue of CICR contains the following topics of interest:

The July issue of the Captive Insurance Company Reports leads with "Security Analysis Made Easier and Better." After detailing the problems insolvency of a fronting insurer can have on captives, we then discuss how and why rating agencies differ. The crux of the article then presents a tool that we think is a better way to monitor insurer security---the Market Security Observer offered by Dempsey Partners. We show what the tool does, especially in its monitoring of the three main rating services on selected insurers, plus the several other financial measures they track---all useful tools for captive owners to easily monitor their insurers and offering fodder for questions they can ask of their outsourced analysts. A sidebar discussing the dilemma the various rating agencies have in making ratings changes written by John Dempsey is well worth the read.

The second article, "Critiquing 'Captive Value Added' ", is a critique made of a Swiss graduate student's thesis, Simone Studer, by Hugh Rosenbaum and Chris Lajtha. Their comments make interesting reading for captive practitioners who debate the theoretical value of captives.

We conclude with a few more short reports from the recent CICA conference, including comments on self-procurement taxes, other offshore domiciles, fair value versus immediate value and rating agencies under attack.

The July edition of the Captive Insurance Company Reports also includes a supplemental insert that provides Delaware's official response to our June article, "Delaware: Bombshell for Captives?" It also provides additional CICR comments, that clarify our position on the subject.

Kick the tires before you buy! To see a sample CICR, View The February 2010 issue in Adobe Acrobat (pdf). The lead story in this issue is entitled 2010 Prognostications on Captives. Also found in this issue is a recap of the highlights of the November 2009 World Captive Forum. This is an excellent sample issue that we think you will enjoy!

CICR Index for 1988 - December 2009 in searchable PDF

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Practical Risk ManagementPractical Risk Management®

Designed to help risk management and financial executives start and maintain a risk management program, Practical Risk Management® discusses the entire process from exposure identification through implementation and monitoring of the program.

The publication suggests risk management practices to implement, and provides concise and understandable explanations of most types of insurance coverage along with tips on the best coverage options. Subscription includes a quarterly newsletter providing insight into emerging risks, new risk management tactics, and insurance market trends.

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Risk Financing®

RiskFinancing During a hardening market, aggressively controlling the cost of risk provides a competitive edge and adds to corporate profits. To manage and control the cost of risk, you must choose from a complex array of alternative risk funding approaches and periodically evaluate and fine-tune the selected vehicles. However, there are so many constantly changing variations of all the alternatives -- and a myriad of tax and accounting implications associated with each -- that it is practically impossible to keep up with them. That's why even the most experienced brokers, underwriters, consultants, CFOs, and risk managers turn to Risk Financing to stay abreast of this fast-moving field!

This leading edge reference provides the details you need to know about deductibles, experience rating, retrospective rating, self-insurance, risk retention groups, self-insurance trusts and pools, captives, finite risk insurance, the alternative market, and other cash flow plans. Today's risk management and insurance professional must be extremely knowledgeable in the pros and cons as well as the operation of each plan. Risk Financing will help you develop competitive alternatives, prepare complete, understandable proposals and/or reports, advise of the tax and accounting considerations of the various alternatives, and keep you abreast of changes that affect your services and programs. It includes eight valuable appendices, containing summaries of state self-insurance regulations, copies of relevant FASBs, internal revenue code provisions, captive insurer legislation, cost guidelines, etc. This service also includes The Risk Financing newsletter with each supplement to the manual. Two loose leaf volumes, 1,500 pages.

Price: $399.00 USD. Sales tax will be added on orders shipped to CA, CT, FL, GA, IA, KY, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA, Washington DC, and WI. Shipping charges will be passed on to the customer for orders outside the US.


 

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