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The IRS is on a winning streak against 831(b) captive insurance companies, and as such could afford to take a tough line in its settlement offer to some micro captives, says Matthew Queen of Venture Capital Management. 18 September 2019
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The Internal Revenue Service is making a time-limited settlement offer to a number of captives that it said “participated in abusive micro-captive insurance transactions.” 17 September 2019
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Too often in the past, captive boards have neglected to properly oversee the governance of their investment portfolios. But the governance of the captive board and the governance of the captive investment portfolio must be treated as one and the same thing, says Sara Hakim, senior vice president of Callan. 17 September 2019
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A captive can be a powerful risk management tool, but it can become blunt and ineffective over time if it is not continually assessed and appraised, to ensure it remains efficiently structured and aligned with its owner’s objectives, says Ciarán Healy at Aon. 16 September 2019
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The Vermont Captive Insurance Association has added two new captive professionals to its board of directors. Both will take up their posts on the VCIA board in October. 16 September 2019
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ASA Assurance, the captive of Alaska Air Group, has been granted a prehearing conference as it appeals a $100,000 fine imposed by the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC). 16 September 2019
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Sompo Global Risk Solutions (GRS) and Willis Towers Watson (WTW) have moved to better serve middle market commercial real estate with the launch of the WTW Retail, Office and Industrial (ROI) platform. 13 September 2019
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Guernsey is geared up for growth in the captives space. 12 September 2019
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TCOR is the industry standard model for tracking insurable costs, used by institutions across all industries to benchmark themselves against peers and historical trends, and by captives to determine reasonable insurability. It is a frustratingly limited measure of risk, so Randall Davis at Delphi Risk Management developed new models to do the job better, as he told Captive International. 12 September 2019
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Steven Crabb, CEO at Davies Insurance Services, believes the recent merger between Marsh and JLT is an opportunity for his company to pick up business from disaffected captives. 11 September 2019
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