Captive Media Library

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Captive Basics

Understanding Actuarial Reports in Captive Insurance: A Practical Guide

Actuarial reports form a cornerstone of captive insurance management, self-insurance, and other risk management strategies.

The importance of sufficient capitalization for a successful captive

Captives are required to meet a minimum capital standard, but this number is only the start to solvency and financial success for the company.

Steering Clear of Mission Drift: The Importance of Regular Captive Assessments

Avoid mission drift by periodically evaluating capital adequacy, optimizing surplus, and realigning with changing business needs.

Business Case for Captive Insurers to Get Rated

How do captive and risk managers evaluate when to explore a rating for their captive?

Cell Captives: A Powerful Tool To Manage Risk

Cell captives offer companies and organizations a way to realize all the benefits of a captive solution with significantly lower start-up and operating costs.

All About Single Parent Captives

Learn about single parent captives and how they add value to a company.

What is Captive Insurance?

Common questions surrounding captives including what a captive is and how your business can utilize it.

Innovative Uses

What's prompting the E&S insurance market's continued growth

Using your captive to underwrite difficult-to-insure risks

Deploy captives to overcome the limitations of traditional insurance markets and align coverage with your business strategy

The Management of Complex Risk for Senior Living and Healthcare

The senior living and healthcare sectors face an array of complex risks that continue to evolve rapidly.

The Risk-Intelligent Captive

Key focus points from "Insuring the Future," a roundtable hosted by Artex & Airmic

Talking Tech Special: Transforming the Reserving Function

Why there is a need for reserving teams to consider new approaches.

Captive Insurance: A Strategic Asset for Mitigating Climate Risks

With escalating severity of natural disasters, corporations face increased threats to their operations and financial stability.

Captives Filling the Void for Homeowner's Insurance

Discover how captives are becoming innovative sources to fill the gap for homeowner's insurance.

Emerging Risks

The Evolution of Risk: Probability vs Impact

The world, and consequently how we view risk and its impact on business, is changing at a significant and unprecedented pace.

IRS Audits of Micro-Captive Insurance Companies: Litigation, Disclosure, and Compliance Trends

Challenging IRS overreach on Section 831(b)

Will the US Congress be able to push back against the IRS on Section 831(b) regulations?

3 Generative AI Predictions for the Risk Management Industry in 2025

With the success that GenAI has brought to workers’ compensation, the C-suite is focusing on the technology’s return on investment

LA Fires Sending Shockwaves through Global Insurance

The true scale of the devastation is becoming apparent, with insured losses estimated between $20 billion and $40 billion, potentially making this the costliest wildfire event in US history.

How to Go Beyond Traditional Climate Risk Management to Tackle Amplified Exposures

Recent climate events suggest we’re in uncharted territory when it comes to amplified climate change risks.

Outlook On AI-Driven Systemic Risks and Opportunities

How generative AI exacerbates the risk of cyber-attacks while also providing mechanisms to detect and fend off such attacks.

Global Specialties 2024 Market Update

Data-driven perspective on developments across risk sectors for 2024.

RRGs

2025 RRG Benchmarking Study

Examining publicly available RRG financial statement data to provide analysis of key financial metrics and industry trends

How Risk Retention Groups Differ from Captives

Hylant Global Captive Solutions contributes this Thought Leadership article

2024 Risk Retention Group Benchmarking Study

2024 key financial metrics and industry trends for RRGs.

Captive Podcasts

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