Employee Benefits

Medical inflation is one of the biggest topics in the global employee benefits industry and thousands of insurance professionals around the world spend their time studying it to ensure they’re effectively pricing their medical benefits.

In a 20 minute discussion, Richard is joined by Friends of the Podcast Shiwei Jin, Head of Global Programs for APAC & Europe at AXA XL, and Juliet Kwek, Regional Director for MAXIS Global Benefits Network in Asia Pacific, to Asia Pacific captives including life and non-life in their portfolio.

MAXIS Global Benefits Network (MAXIS GBN), the international employee benefits joint venture between MetLife and AXA, has appointed Lorraine Fernandes as chief legal officer.

Generali Employee Benefits (GEB) has appointed François-Xavier Dub as general manager, where he will report directly to GEB CEO Ludovic Bayard.

After a gap of four and a half years between successful captive exemption applications to the Department of Labor (DoL), the 2022 achievements of Phillips 66 and Comcast is laying the path for further employee benefits activity in the United States.

Momentum appears to have returned to the application process for companies wanting to use their captive to reinsure employee benefits under the United States’ Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

HSBC's Nekisha Tyrrell and MAXIS' Nicola Fordham (pictured) discuss the rationale and advantages of including medical in a captive international employee benefits programme.

This GCP Short, featuring Nicola Fordham of MAXIS and Nekisha Tyrrell of HSBC, is all about reinsuring medical programmes with a captive.