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News, January, 2025

Colin Mitchell & Alicia Skeete | Interview 2024 | Alberta, And Barbados Captive Interest For Great Pacific Group.

The Barbados-Based manager formed the first Alberta Captive, and has a Canadian affiliate, but is continuing to see interest from Canadian firms in both domiciles….

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Guy Carpenter:Excess Capacity Drives Property Catastrophe Rate Cuts

Property catastrophe renewals on 1 January were oversubscribed as reinsurer appetite exceeded demand, leading to risk-adjusted rate…

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Rising number of large-sized and complex captives leading to uptick in ECM Interest.

A common tool of traditional carriers, Oliver Wyman is seeing far more captives use economic capital modelling.

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Risk is everybody's Business: Moving Toward integrated risk management.

Risk modelers, accountants, and economist must collaborate closely to collect more timely …

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Risk managers warn cyber insurance could become 'unviable product'

Concerns grow over insurers failing to cover big state-backed attacks.

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What to do when the US becomes uninsurable

Climate change means actuaries are making a radical new calculation about the price of risk.

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stop-loss protection for captives

This article appeared in the February 2023 edition of Captive Review. Swiss Re’s Thomas Keist provides his thoughts on stop-loss protection for captives

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Barbados, an IFC of High Integrity

This article on Barbados was posted on the IFC Review website in February 2023

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Using Your Captive To Manage The Budget Impact Of ESG Risks

By Ed Koral, director, Strategic Risk Consulting, WTW

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Disability Management & Mitigation

“We see more of our clients placing employee health care risk into their captives. This article provides some insight on how captives can play a role in disability management programs.”

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Views from the Summit interview

John Howard from Summit Asset Management sat down to speak with Colin Mitchell about captives and Barbados.

Calling The shots

Our friends at London & Capital co-authored an interesting article on captives and investment management.

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New Alberta Captive Bill

Captive legislation is coming to Alberta. If your company has operations in the province we would be pleased to discuss how this may benefit you.

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The New Cyber War

Cyber has been a hot topic in the insurance and captive insurance world for some time now. For years premiums have been ris- ing in the commercial market
and capacity decreasing, putting pressure on organisations.

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The Continued Rise Of Captives

Captives as reinsurance companies play a central risk management role for large international operating companies. However, their use depends very much on the strategic risk management & risk financing priorities of the parent company.

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