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Asset management analysis
Captives and individual clients alike have been awestruck by the recent moves in the markets. With the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak quickly becoming a pandemic, just as an oil price war broke out between Saudi Arabia and Russia, markets have experienced a perfect storm. Oppenheimer’s Jack Meskunas attempts to put recent market moves into perspective. 25 March 2020
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The Self-Insurance Institute of America (SIIA) has cancelled its Self-Insured Workers’ Compensation Executive Forum, which had been scheduled for May 12-14. 24 March 2020
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Airmic has cancelled its annual conference in Edinburgh in June due to the coronavirus pandemic. 24 March 2020
IT & claims management analysis
Ransomware attacks skyrocketed in 2019, according to the latest Beazley Breach Briefing, an annual update on cyber trends produced by Beazley, a cyber insurer. 24 March 2020
Actuarial & underwriting
Most companies were utterly unprepared for the onset of a pandemic as disruptive as COVID-19, with a number of risk managers admitting it was not on their radars. But once they have navigated their companies through the immediate future and business starts to return to normal, they know that will have to change. Captives could be part of the solution. Solomon Teague reports. 24 March 2020
Law & regulation
Regulation is important to Gemini Trust Company, the cryptocurrency exchange and custodian that launched a captive insurance company, Nakamoto, in January. 23 March 2020
USA analysis
The North Carolina Captive Insurance Association (NCCIA) has rescheduled its 2020 Annual Conference to August 30 through September 2, 2020. 23 March 2020
IT & claims management analysis
A significant increase in claims payments from Health Re, the captive of Aetna Life Insurance, related to COVID-19, could trigger losses for a number of Vitality Re ILS transactions, S&P Global Ratings has warned. 20 March 2020
Law & regulation
Vermont’s Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) will offer waivers to captives and other businesses that are unable to hold board meetings in coming months due to the spread of COVID-19. 20 March 2020
Law & regulation
When North Carolina’s captive insurance programme began seven years ago, regulators promised flexible, timely regulation that would help new captive insurers form and flourish. North Carolina’s regulators have delivered on their promise, says Barry Smith of the North Carolina Department of Insurance. 20 March 2020
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