Global Captive Podcast

In this GCP Short, produced in collaboration with Friends of the Podcast Labuan International Business and Financial Centre, Richard is joined by Farah Jaafar-Crossby, CEO of Labuan IBFC, Roy Sharma, Chairman of the Labuan International Insurance Association and Oliver Schofield, Head of Captive & ART Consulting at Principal Re Limited.

Labuan is Malaysia’s midshore financial centre and the fastest growing captive domicile in the Asia Pacific region, and in this episode we hear about the latest captive formation and premium statistics, the utilisation of protected cells, how the growing commercial reinsurance sector in the jurisdiction is complimenting the captive environment and areas to watch out for with regards future growth.

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In this GCP Short, produced in collaboration with Friends of the Podcast Marsh Captive Solutions, Richard is joined by Michael Serricchio, Americas Sales & Advisory Leader at Marsh Captive Solutions, Rich Serina, Senior Manager for Risk Management at Canon USA, and Donna Weber, SVP with responsibility for Marsh's global protected cell companies.

The trio discuss the growing trend of insureds using captives, and in particular cell captives, to write third party risk. Rich Serina explains how Canon USA has used a DC cell since 2018 to take part in a profitable line of third party insurance.

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In episode 50 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by legacy specialists R&Q, Richard is joined by guest co-host Mike Foley, President of Captive Resources.

Mike joined the group captive specialists in 2018 and discusses his perspective on the risk transfer strategy, his background in the commercial market and the impact of the hard market on group captives.

The captive owner interview is with Dan Scheid, CFO at Zeigler Auto Group and President of Navigator Casualty, Ltd, a Cayman-domiciled group captive. Dan discusses Zeigler's journey as founder members of Navigator and the benefits it has brought to the company.

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In this GCP Short, produced in collaboration with Friends of the Podcast AM Best, Richard is joined by Daniele Zucchi, Managing Director of Sigurd Ruck, the Swiss-domiciled captive owned by Saipem, Ghislain Le Cam, a Director of Analytics at AM Best, and Roisin Gallagher, Associate Director within Market Development for AM Best Ratings Services.

Daniele, Ghislain and Roisin discuss how and why captives are rated, the impact of the volatile insurance environment and the effect of the parent and other factors on a captive’s rating.

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The second instalment of the new quarterly e-magazine, GCP Insights, was released on 21 April, and our regular panel of captive professionals return to provide additional analysis of some of the biggest stories of the past three months.

Cassie Bachman, Joe McDonald and Karen Hsi discuss and debate the growing volume of third party risk being written through captives, the latest IRS Tax Court victory concerning abuse of the 831(b) tax election, the possibility of the UK becoming a captive domicile and latest developments in Washington State.

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Listen to the GCP Short episode with EY on self-procurement taxes here: https://www.globalcaptivepodcast.com/gcpshort30

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In this GCP Short, produced in collaboration with Friends of the Podcast Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, Richard and guests debate the similarities and differences between virtual captives and protected cell companies (PCCs).

Thomas Keist, Global Captive Solutions Leader at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, and Fabrice Frere, Managing Director within Aon Global Risk Consulting in Luxembourg, discuss the two structures, addressing areas such as fronting and reinsurance partners, domicile considerations and consolidated and unconsolidated balance sheets.

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This GCP Short, produced in collaboration with Friends of the Podcast Morris, Manning & Martin LLP, explores the key considerations for captives and their owners when there is merger and/or acquisition activity at the parent level.

Joseph Holahan, partner in Morris, Manning & Martin's insurance and reinsurance practice, and Lisa Willits, owner of Captive Advisory Partners LLC, discuss the due diligence concerning captives that is recommended when an acquisition is taking place, change of ownership regulations, strategies to consider when multiple captives are at play and the process involved for merging existing captives.

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In GCP #49, supported by legacy specialists R&Q, Richard is joined by guest co-host Adrian Lynch, who recently joined Artex Risk Solutions from Aon as executive vice president with responsibility for operations and business development in the Americas, Bermuda and Cayman.

Adrian discusses Artex's immediate plans including potential further acquisition activity, the impact of the pandemic on healthcare captives and the captive response to the hard market.

The captive owner interview is with Marcus Reichel, head of insurance at Knauf, a privately-owned Germany building materials company. Knauf own a Vermont captive and have just recently formed a Luxembourg reinsurance captive.

And Chris Dalziel, executive director, and Mike Trudeau, portfolio analyst, from Friends of the Podcast London & Capital provide us with the Q1 investments update.

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In this GCP Short, produced in collaboration with Friends of the Podcast Spring Consulting Group, Richard is joined by Peter Johnson, Senior Actuarial Consultant, and Prabal Lakhanpal, Vice President, to discuss how captives can provide a greater degree of control during renewals.

The trio discuss some of the drivers of the hard market, whether we may see some rates soften, the benefits of different captive structures and the importance of taking a long term view.

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In episode 48 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by legacy specialists R&Q, Richard examines the Latin American captive insurance market and is joined by guest co-host Adriana Scherzinger, Head of International Program Business and Commercial Insurance in Latin America, for Zurich Insurance Company.

The captive owner interview is with Rene Martinez Flores, Global Director of Insurance & Risk Management for Mexico’s building materials giant CEMEX, while Julián Ávila, Practice Leader for Aon Captive & Insurance Management in Latin America, also joins.

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