Captives & alternative markets

Alternative asset classes, particularly private equity and commercial real estate, and how they’re used in strategic asset allocations within the insurance industry.

Evidence suggests the commercial market for cyber insurance has begun to stabilize. Should insurers continue to pursue writing cyber in their captives?

A company deciding to retain its risk faces the decision between self-insuring or forming a single-parent captive insurance company.

Over the past decade, captive insurers and their owners making the 831(b) tax election have come under scrutiny from the IRS.

Parametric policies, which pay based on the magnitude of an event, can bridge coverage gaps that are difficult to insure with a traditional indemnity policy.

Risks such as COVID-19, climate change, cyberattacks, and evolving socioeconomic issues are not isolated to one side of a balance sheet, or one fiscal year.

Captive insurance is a narrow niche within the insurance industry that is often not all that well understood, even by insurance professionals.

Learn more on whether single parent captive insurers themselves earn higher profits than other forms of insurance.

Even before the coronavirus, obstacles existed that slowed the uptake of insurtech solutions that targeted the reduction of customers’ losses.

The P&C insurance industry would benefit from more direct collaboration and communication with its customers.

Expenses related to the self-insurance of liabilities for professional liability and workers' compensation coverage are highly exposed to increases in the inflation rate.