In this GCP Exclusive, Richard is joined by Oliver Schofield, Managing Partner at RISCS, and Malcolm Cutts-Watson, Founder and Executive Chairman at Cutts-Watson Consulting, as they break the news on the merger of the two independent consulting firms into RISCS CWC.

Olly and Malcolm discuss how the conversation started last year, the motivations behind the merger and what their ambitions are. They also explain what role they are keen to play and the services they can provide to insurance buyers and the global captive insurance market.

For more information on RISCS CWC, visit their Friend of the Podcast page here.

This GCP Short, produced in partnership with MAXIS Global Benefits Network, is all about reinsuring medical programmes with a captive.

As ever, we are very pleased to have a client perspective in this employee benefits episode. Joining Richard is Nekisha Tyrrell, Head of Underwriting at the HSBC Group captive in Bermuda, and Nicola Fordham, Chief Underwriting Officer at MAXIS.

Nicola and Nekisha go on to discuss what we mean by medical cover in the context of international employee benefits programmes, why it is rarely added to captives immediately, the advantages of and rationale for writing it and how challenges such as medical inflation can be managed.

For more information on MAXIS Global Benefits Network and its captive services, visit their Friend of the Podcast page here.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with London & Capital, Senior Reporter Luke Harrison is joined by Darren Treasure, Executive Director & Head of Caribbean Office at London & Capital, and Rob Leadbetter, Senior Vice President at USA Risk, for a conversation recorded at the Cayman Captive Forum in December.

Darren and Rob discuss the profile of the Cayman Islands as a captive domicile, recent trends and what imminent new investment guidelines mean for captives in the jurisdiction.

For more information on London & Capital and their captive services, visit their Friend of the Podcast page here.

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In episode 78 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by legacy specialists R&Q, Richard is joined by Ellen Charnley, President of Marsh Captive Solutions, for our annual interview new formation trends, uses of captives by MGAs, third party growth and ESG.

Luke interviews a familiar face as Oklahoma's new captive regulator, Steve Kinion, and also has a report from the Cayman Captive Forum, which features, in order, Erin Brosnihan, at Kensington Management Group, Adrian Lynch, of Artex, Robert Leadbetter, of USA Risk, and Colin Robinson, at SRS.

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This GCP Short, produced in partnership with Zurich Insurance, is all about the value and selection of outside directors for captive insurance company boards.

Friend of the Podcast Paul Wöhrmann, Head of Captives Services at Zurich, has brought together five expert speakers on this topic, three of which are already independent directors of captive boards.

Over the course of 25 minutes listeners will hear from Andrew Bradley, Malcolm Cutts-Watson and Francoise Carli, who have all had careers packed full with captive experience, and sit on captive boards today.

We are also joined by Xavier Groffils, the manager of the Luxembourg captive owned by Belgian chemicals company Solvay, and Hans-Peter Wagenhöfer, director of insurance and reinsurance at German multinational BASF.

Our expert panel discuss definition of outside and independent directors, how they are viewed in different jurisdictions around Europe and the value they bring to a captive board. Malcolm begins by outlining what he believes are the key responsibilities of a captive board and outside directors.

For more information on Zurich and its captive services, visit its Friend of the Podcast page here: https://captiveintelligence.io/zurich/

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In episode 77 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by legacy specialists R&Q, we have an exclusive discussion with Meta and its insurance partners in which they explain its new and unique approach to insuring Side A D&O through its own Hawaii-domiciled captive.

Richard in joined by Janaize Markland, director of business risk and insurance at Meta, Lauri Floresca, a specialist D&O broker with Woodruff Sawyer, and Nick Troxell, manager of global captive fronting at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), who discuss the context of the hard D&O market of the past three years, recent corporate law changed in Delaware that made the solution possibly and the structure of the ‘Laser DIC’ Side A policy that has been deployed.

To read a Long Read article based on this podcast, visit Captive Intelligence, where you will find plenty more D&O and captive content.

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In episode 76 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by legacy specialists R&Q, Richard is joined by three of the professionals instrumental in the first captive insurance signatory of the United Nations' Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI).

Earlier this year Enel Insurance, the Netherlands-domiciled captive owned by Italian energy multinational Enel, became the first captive to sign up to the PSI.

In a 25 minute discussion recorded at the European Captive Forum in Luxembourg, in November, listeners will hear from Antonio Nervini, Head of Insurance in the Netherlands at Enel, Butch Bacani, Programme Leader for the UN’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance, and Ciaran Healy, Chief Commercial Officer for EMEA at Aon Global Risk Consulting.

Now Enel has a long track record of embracing and investing in renewable and sustainable energy practices, including being the first to design and install smart meters in 2001, and the first private company in the renewable power sector to be listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. And this step by the captive to sign up to the PSI is a good reflection of a group-wide approach to meeting sustainability and ESG targets.

Antonio will explain why Enel wanted to be the first captive to become a signatory of the PSI, Ciaran explains the work involved and whether he expects other captives to follow suit, but Butch begins provides some background on the PSI and his own ambitions for the captive market.

To read the Report authored by Aon and the United Nations on Using a Captive Insurance Company to Drive Positive ESG Outcomes , click here.

In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with the Stonefort Group, listeners will be introduced to the unique evolution and service offering of a Luxembourg single-parent captive into a commercial venture that today offers direct insurance services, reinsurance capacity and captive management.

Stonefort began life in 2000 as Builders Re, a reinsurance captive owned by German multinational construction giant Hochtief AG, but has written third party business since the beginning and the entrepreneurial spirit has only grown over the past 20 years.

Richard is joined by three of the experienced captive professionals behind Stonefort for a 20 minute discussion that was recorded at the European Captive Forum in Luxembourg on 10 November. They are CEO John Morrey, Chief Insurance Officer Koenraad Everaert and Head of Marketing Bertrand Gilson.

For more information on the Stonefort Group, visit their website.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with RISCS, is all about the evolving reinsurance strategies of captives.

Joining Richard for 20 minutes, Oliver Schofield, Managing Partner, and David Hully, who joined RISCS as a Partner in July 2022, discuss the growing number of options and reinsurance partners available to captives, the importance of getting a sound reinsurance strategy in place from the beginning, and the changing market environment.

For more information on RISCS, visit their Friend of the Podcast page.

In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with Captive Resources, Richard is joined by Joseph Parrilli, Senior Vice President at Captive Resources, and Julie Antunes, Health & Wellness Coordinator at Abell, LLC to discuss the use of group captives to fund medical stop loss cover.

Joe talks about the wider market developments in medical stop loss and how group captives can be a successful option, while Julie shares with us her company's own experiences of the group captive approach.

For more information on Captive Resources, visit their Friend of the Podcast page.

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