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Falling interest rates, rising volatility

Trade and monetary policy have dominated the financial headlines in 2019. In 2020 the Federal Reserve is expected to cut rates, but some say markets are pricing in too much monetary easing, says Andrew Wang at Runnymede Capital Management.   8 January 2020

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Artex names Guernsey office chief as head of European operations

Artex Risk Solutions has appointed Peter Child as its head of its European operations, with oversight of Guernsey, Malta, Gibraltar and London offices.   8 January 2020

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Green Mountain launches group captive for rented property sector

Green Mountain Sponsored Captive Insurance Company has launched a group captive profit center program for the rented property sector.   7 January 2020

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Two captives banned from selling insurance in Washington

Mike Kreidler, the Insurance Commissioner for Washington State, has ordered two captives, Olympic Casualty Insurance and ASA Assurance, to stop writing insurance in the state for their parent companies, Starbucks and Alaska Air Group.   6 January 2020

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Bermuda-based captives increase cyber premiums by more than 50% in 2018

Bermuda-based captives took in 53.6 percent more affirmative cyber related gross premiums in 2018 than they did the previous year, according to the Bermuda Monetary Authority in its annual cyber underwriting report.   6 January 2020

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Captives set to increase their cyber coverage in 2020

Captives are set to increase their cyber coverage in 2020, according to Captive International’s end of year survey.   30 December 2019

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Tax benefits low on list of reasons to have a captive

Gaining access to coverage that is not available elsewhere is the number one benefit of having a captive, according to Captive International readers.   27 December 2019

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Number of global captives set to return to growth in 2020

Next year will see the number of captives operating globally increase again, after a couple of years of retraction, according to respondents to Captive International’s end of year survey.   24 December 2019

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Tax concerns the biggest challenge of 2019

US Tax Court cases have been the biggest challenge for captives in 2019, according to nearly half of the respondents to Captive International’s end of year survey.   23 December 2019

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Captive International Cayman Awards

Welcome to the results of the inaugural Captive International Cayman Awards. In the following pages we reveal the results of a comprehensive survey conducted over many months designed to identify the most influential and highly regarded firms and individuals operating in the market.   20 December 2019

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