In this latest GCP Short, produced in collaboration with Friends of the Podcast Beecher Carlson, Richard discusses defining risk appetite in a hardening market.
The three guests are Michael Laperche, Vice President of Risk Management at PRIDE Industries, Courtney Claflin, Executive Director of Captive Programs at the University of California, and Jason Flaxbeard, Senior Managing Director at Beecher Carlson
In episode 33 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by legacy specialists R&Q, Richard is joined by guest co-host Anne Marie Towle, Global Captive Solutions Leader at Hylant.
​Anne Marie reflects on a busy first 10 months in the role, where new interest in captives is coming from and Hylant’s ambitions for captive expansion.
We hear from captive owners Courtney Claflin, of University of California, and Mike Laperche, of PRIDE Industries, in a sneak peak of next week’s GCP Short with Friend of the Podcast Jason Flaxbeard, of Beecher Carlson. The full episode will be released on 12 July.
Cassie Bachman, Managing Director of Compliance at Elevate Captives, sheds some light on the government’s latest action in its investigation of micro-captives with its Summons issued to the Delaware Department of Insurance on 19 June.
In this latest GCP Short with Friend of the Podcast Walkers global law firm, Richard is joined by Kate Storey, Guernsey-based Partner at Walkers, and Mike Pickard, a Senior Manager with Aon Guernsey.
​Richard, Kate and Mike discuss how the jurisdiction is well placed to facilitate innovation and collaboration between the captive, ILS and longevity markets, and why this might be of interest and value to captive owners.
In episode 32 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by legacy specialists R&Q, Richard is joined by the new Head of the Willis Towers Watson Global Captive Practice, Peter Carter. Peter discusses a busy first six months at the helm and his background.
The captive owner interview is with Jim Leimkuhler, CEO of Progressive Produce in Los Angeles. Progressive Produce is a member of the Cayman-domiciled group captive Raffles Insurance and Jim explains how his organisation has benefited widely from a 16 year membership.
Richard is also joined by Amy Evans, Kara Tencellent and Sandy Bigglestone from CICA’s Amplify Women task force to discuss the initiative and its objectives and progress since its launch in 2019.
In this GCP Short, Richard is joined by Karen Jenner and Joseph Finbow, from Friends of the Podcast TMF, and Lisa Coomber, Senior Group Insurance Manager at Vodafone, to discuss captive structures and the often invisible costs that are insurance premium taxes and other levies.
This discussion should be particularly helpful to anyone involved with the design, implementation or management of global insurance programmes.
In 20 very practical minutes, the experts outline what taxes are associated with direct and non-admitted programmes, where the responsibilities for compliance lie within different structures and how it can sometimes be more efficient to run a hybrid programme of both direct writing and using fronting partners.
In episode 31 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by legacy specialists R&Q, Richard is joined by Van Carlson, CEO of Strategic Risk Alternatives in Boise, Idaho, to discuss domiciling on Indian Reservation land, COVID-19 claims and intangible risks.
The captive owner interview is with Fredrik Finnman, Head of Group Risk Management at global engineering giant Sandvik, who discusses the insurance implications of the pandemic, the regulatory environment for captives in Sweden and the hardening market.
Richard is also joined by fellow podcaster Mike Tannenbaum, a risk management recruitment specialist from Key Strategies LLC, who launched the Should I Stay or Should I Go podcast in 2019.
Mike discusses the importance of captive experience to risk & insurance managers as they look to progress their career, whether we might we saw more ‘outsourced’ risk management functions in this economic environment.
In this GCP Short, Richard is joined by Paul Corver, Group Head of M&A at legacy specialists R&Q, and Paul Owens.
Richard and the two Pauls discuss how and why captives can recycle captive in order to offload legacy liabilities and write new lines of business, including the use of loss portfolio transfers, novations and commutations.
At the time of this recording Paul Owens had not yet joined Strategic Risk Solutions as a board director and was speaking in an independent capacity.
In episode 30 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by legacy specialists R&Q, Richard is joined by Brian Kirwan, Partner and Head of Structured Solutions at one-year-old broker McGill & Partners.
Brian, who was CEO of Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty in the UK from 2015 to 2018, and has a long background with alternative risk transfer and multi-line, multi-year programmes discusses his philosophy on captives and the role he expects them to play in an increasingly tough insurance environment.
The captive owner interview is with Jen Blair, Global Risk and Insurance Manager at Bose. The privately-owned audio giant established a Bermuda captive in 2018 and Jen discusses the company’s risk financing and captive strategy.
Chris Dalziel, Executive Director, and Michael Trudeau, Institutional Portfolio Manager at London & Capital, provide the first in a new quarterly investment update series.
In our latest GCP Short, Richard is joined by Friends of the Podcast from Zurich to discuss the evolution of captive programmes and what the future may look like for risk financing structures.
The three guests for this episode are:
Andrew Bradley, formerly Head of Group Risk Services at Nestlé, where he spent 40 years, including 10 years as CEO of their Swiss-domiciled captive Intercona Re.
Sierra Signorelli, Chief Underwriting Officer, Commercial Insurance, Zurich
Paul Woehrmann, Head of Captive Services for Zurich in Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
In episode 29 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by legacy specialists R&Q, Rich Smith, President of the Vermont Captive Insurance Association, joins as guest co-host to update listeners on plans for a virtual VCIA conference in August and what COVID-19 legislative and regulatory developments the Association is monitoring.
​The captive owner interview is with Scott Feltham, Group Insurance Manager at Compass Group PLC, a FTSE 30 company and largest foodservice provider in the world.
​Chaz Lavelle, a lawyer in the Louisville, Kentucky Office of Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP, is the final guest. He outlines the relevance of the US Supreme Court case announced on 4 May concerning CIC Services LLC’s challenge to the Internal Revenue Service over Notice 2016-66. Chaz also discusses other controversial developments in the micro-captive space in 2020.
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