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John Foehl, Jr

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John Foehl is former coeditor of Captive.com. Mr. Foehl has 35+ years’ experience in financial services with nearly 30 years spent in the captive insurance industry arena, including executive positions with several captives and as a consultant to the captive community. Mr. Foehl is also a captive board member with the Merchants Insurance Group and cell commissioner for AMERIND Risk.

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John Foehl
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Articles

ERM Basics for Group Captives Building blocks on a desk
ERM Basics for Group Captives
A Primer on Governance Models for Captive Insurers Children's primer with an orange question mark on its front cover sitiing on an old school desk
A Primer on Governance Models for Captive Insurers
Key Concepts for Captive Insurance Reinsurance Contracts A key on top of wooden desk next to a ontract
Key Concepts for Captive Insurance Reinsurance Contracts
5 Reasons Not To Form a Captive Insurer An City Street Flanked by Skyscrapers Heads Toward an Orange Road Sign Illustrating Use Caution
5 Reasons Not To Form a Captive Insurer
Why Your Captive Insurance Company Board Needs To Be Actuarially Sound The word actuary with the words secure, protect, insured, finance, and contract crossing it
Why Your Captive Insurance Company Board Needs To Be Actuarially Sound
"The Song Remains the Same" (The Peril of Ignoring Investment Risk) Two dollar signs with guitar necks on black and white background
"The Song Remains the Same" (The Peril of Ignoring Investment Risk)
How Numerate Is Your Board? The Case for Captive Board Numeracy Human head wearing glasses with numbers in the lenses and surrounded by numbers
How Numerate Is Your Board? The Case for Captive Board Numeracy
Understanding Artificial Intelligence and Asset Management Abstract blue And black connected dots
Understanding Artificial Intelligence and Asset Management
Why Underwriting Discipline Is Critical for Captives Stack of hundred dollar bills wrapped in chains and padlocked
Why Underwriting Discipline Is Critical for Captives
Are You Ready To Serve on a Captive Board? Members at a board of directors meeting
Are You Ready To Serve on a Captive Board?
3 Modes of Planning: A Primer for Captives Silhouettes of three businessmen at a planning meeting
3 Modes of Planning: A Primer for Captives
A Primer on Leader's Intent for Captive Insurers A skeleton key lying on top of the word LEADERSHIP
A Primer on Leader's Intent for Captive Insurers
AI, Risk Management, and Captive Insurance Businessman holding an enlarged microchip with a human brain
AI, Risk Management, and Captive Insurance
Why Captives Need To Focus on Culture When Considering Governance Boardroom table with empty chairs
Why Captives Need To Focus on Culture When Considering Governance
Remove Impacts of Emotion and Reaction When Investing for Captives Profile image of Stephen Nedwicki
Remove Impacts of Emotion and Reaction When Investing for Captives
3 Issues That Potentially Threaten Captive Insurers Three Exclamation Marks
3 Issues That Potentially Threaten Captive Insurers
Key Accounting Issues for Cell Captives Extending from center circle with acronym GAAP are lines with business icons in front of a handshake and airplane on a runway
Key Accounting Issues for Cell Captives
The Data Revolution in Actuarial Science Abstract blue And black connected dots
The Data Revolution in Actuarial Science
Upping Your Governance Game Plan A desk with a calendar and laptop in front of a chalkboard with the word GOVERNANCE and different learning tools drawn on it
Upping Your Governance Game Plan
First Impressions: SRS Governance Survey Four Business People Meeting In A Board Room
First Impressions: SRS Governance Survey
Musings on the State of Workers Compensation The words Work Injury Claim surrounded by question marks
Musings on the State of Workers Compensation
NACD Report: "Adaptive Governance: Board Oversight of Disruptive Risks" Members at a board of directors meeting
NACD Report: "Adaptive Governance: Board Oversight of Disruptive Risks"
Key Criteria for Selecting a Captive Claims TPA Desk with calculator coffee magnifying glass a page of graphs and a tablet displaying an empty checklist with one checkmark
Key Criteria for Selecting a Captive Claims TPA
Does Your Captive Suffer from Bad Directors? Three standing businessmen icons are upset with one in chair with legs on top of desk that has a laptop and papers on it
Does Your Captive Suffer from Bad Directors?
AI and Captive Insurance: What Does the Future Hold? Businessman holding an enlarged microchip with a human brain
AI and Captive Insurance: What Does the Future Hold?
What Is Risk-Based Capital: A Primer for Captives Accounting Business Acronym RBC Risk-Based Capital On Asphalt Road
What Is Risk-Based Capital: A Primer for Captives
Captive Basics: Understanding Liquidity Calculator Figures Liquidity Money With Glasses
Captive Basics: Understanding Liquidity
Innovation and Productivity in Captive Insurers Drone Flying in Warehouse
Innovation and Productivity in Captive Insurers
What's Your Captive's Cyber-Security Risk Profile? Two people's hands overlayed with data icons
What's Your Captive's Cyber-Security Risk Profile?
Data Analytics for Captive Insurers: Key Considerations A laptop screen emits data in different formats while the background shows stock market board and a silhouette of world map
Data Analytics for Captive Insurers: Key Considerations
Five Steps for Onboarding New Directors Board room with empty chairs
Five Steps for Onboarding New Directors
Business Interruption Insurance: A Basic Primer Repair Crew And Trucks Viewing Tornado Damage
Business Interruption Insurance: A Basic Primer
3 Thoughts for Captive Boards and Management To Consider Four Business People Meeting In A Board Room
3 Thoughts for Captive Boards and Management To Consider
Why Cash Flow Is Key for Captive Insurers Man Holding Stack Of Hundred Dollar Bills Over Money
Why Cash Flow Is Key for Captive Insurers
Inflation: Captive Insurers, Beware of What You Wish for Inflation Dice On Stacks Of Pennies
Inflation: Captive Insurers, Beware of What You Wish for
Where Will the Captive Insurer Talent Come from? Five young business professionals smiling
Where Will the Captive Insurer Talent Come from?
Expected Adverse Development as a Measure of Risk Distribution Hand using calculator resting on paper with numbers and pen next to it
Expected Adverse Development as a Measure of Risk Distribution
Strategy and Risk: 5 Key Questions for Captive Insurers Businessman with Questions
Strategy and Risk: 5 Key Questions for Captive Insurers
5 Questions Concerning Your Captive's Asset Allocation Model Four rows of sheets of paper with a question mark printed on each
5 Questions Concerning Your Captive's Asset Allocation Model
Top Tips for Hiring a Captive Manager In the outstretched palm of a businessman is an illuminated lightbulb with icons of business professional resume poses
Top Tips for Hiring a Captive Manager
5 Top Tips for Building a Board of Directors Boardroom table with empty chairs
5 Top Tips for Building a Board of Directors
Captive Insurer Boards and Blockchain Technology Members at a board of directors meeting
Captive Insurer Boards and Blockchain Technology
2018 Musings on Captive Insurer Investments Investment graph showing rises and falls
2018 Musings on Captive Insurer Investments
NACD Publishes "2018 Governance Outlook" Businessman writing Corporate Governance
NACD Publishes "2018 Governance Outlook"
Why Captive Investment Manager Due Diligence Matters Businessman standing with Due Diligence written next to him
Why Captive Investment Manager Due Diligence Matters

News

Reflections on the 2020 "FERMA European Risk Manager Report" Collage of 8 scenes illustrating people interacting with data
Reflections on the 2020 "FERMA European Risk Manager Report"
Will Captives Benefit from the Hardening Market? Businesswoman contemplates surrounded by question marks
Will Captives Benefit from the Hardening Market?
COVID-19 and the Need To Think about Leadership and Crisis Management Crisis Management in Red Letters Illuminated by Hanging Lightbulbs
COVID-19 and the Need To Think about Leadership and Crisis Management
Prabal Lakhanpal-Captive Insurance Person of Interest Profile image of Prabal Lakhanpal
Prabal Lakhanpal-Captive Insurance Person of Interest
Social Inflation: The Drumbeat Continues Drummer wearing black and white band uniform beating large bass drum in parade
Social Inflation: The Drumbeat Continues
3 New Year's Resolutions for Captive Insurers in 2020 A hand writing on a New Year´s Resolutions list of items 1, 2 and 3
3 New Year's Resolutions for Captive Insurers in 2020
Captive President and CEO Jill Eaton Believes in Leading with Urgency Jill Eaton
Captive President and CEO Jill Eaton Believes in Leading with Urgency
Lloyd's "Blueprint One": A Critique Lloyds Building entrance
Lloyd's "Blueprint One": A Critique
Five Thoughts on Social Inflation Clouds in the sky in the shape of baloons embossed with dollar signs
Five Thoughts on Social Inflation
What Is Your Captive's Story? Businessperson writing "What is Your Story?"
What Is Your Captive's Story?
Pinnacle's Aaron Hillebrandt Says Actuaries Help Improve Businesses Profile image of Aaron Hillebrandt
Pinnacle's Aaron Hillebrandt Says Actuaries Help Improve Businesses
General Liability Trends: Captive Insurers Beware Beware
General Liability Trends: Captive Insurers Beware
Aaron Koch: ILS Will Continue To Play an Increasing Role for Captives Hurricane-Koch Interview
Aaron Koch: ILS Will Continue To Play an Increasing Role for Captives
AMERIND: A Cell Captive in Operation Dreamcatchers hung in a row with a desert plateau in the background
AMERIND: A Cell Captive in Operation
James Twining: Captive Insurance Person of Interest James Twining
James Twining: Captive Insurance Person of Interest
Synopsis: 2019 1Q Reinsurance Markets First Quarter 2019
Synopsis: 2019 1Q Reinsurance Markets
PwC "2019 State of Compliance Study": Implications for Captives Business Woman Pointing At A Lightbulb That Says Governance
PwC "2019 State of Compliance Study": Implications for Captives
3 Lessons from the Spirit Commercial Auto RRG Failure Lessons Learned On Desk With Laptop Coffee Phone
3 Lessons from the Spirit Commercial Auto RRG Failure
Trends in Long-Term Interest Rates Man in black suit looking at glowing crystal ball with his hands surrounding it
Trends in Long-Term Interest Rates
Captive Insurers and the 2019 Reinsurance Markets A businessman contemplates a racetrack with a starting line and flag at 2019 and the road ahead is dark with thick clouds
Captive Insurers and the 2019 Reinsurance Markets
Steven Bauman: Captive Insurance Person of Interest Profile image of Steven Bauman
Steven Bauman: Captive Insurance Person of Interest
Debbie Walker: Captive Insurance Person of Interest Debra Walker
Debbie Walker: Captive Insurance Person of Interest
A Look at the New Willis Towers Watson Captive Quantified Model Abstract blue And black connected dots
A Look at the New Willis Towers Watson Captive Quantified Model
Joel Chansky: Captive Insurance Person of Interest Profile image of Joel Chansky
Joel Chansky: Captive Insurance Person of Interest
FinTech and Captive Insurance Revisited Businessman holding tablet emitting a blue hologram of earth with security icons
FinTech and Captive Insurance Revisited
NAIC Releases 2017 Annual Report and Strategic Plan View of 3 men's arms meeting around a desk with 1 man holding a blue pen to a point on a chart and another man using a laptop
NAIC Releases 2017 Annual Report and Strategic Plan
Should the Captive Markets Consider Mergers and Acquisitions? Two business people shake hands over a laptop
Should the Captive Markets Consider Mergers and Acquisitions?
Where Things Stand: Insurance, Reinsurance, and Alternative Capital Businessman at large landing of a staircase facing the both sets of stairs and contemplating the upward set
Where Things Stand: Insurance, Reinsurance, and Alternative Capital
NAIC Roundup: Looking Back, Looking Ahead Past and Future signs with arrows pointing opposite directions
NAIC Roundup: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
2017 "Workers' Compensation Benchmarking Study" Releases Best Practices Report Card A 100 dollar bill and paper doll with a minus on head and plus on chest are under an umbrella that says Workers Compensation
2017 "Workers' Compensation Benchmarking Study" Releases Best Practices Report Card
Bermuda Monetary Authority Releases Its "Captive/SPI Report 2017" Time for Transparency written on a clockface
Bermuda Monetary Authority Releases Its "Captive/SPI Report 2017"