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Mars Incorporated, the American company which is one of the largest globally active and multinational manufacturers of food products, confectionery and pet food, has said that alternative capital is attractive to the firm as a potential backer for its captive, whole parametric risk transfer is seen as a “fantastic” risk management tool.

Artex Risk Solutions, the captive and alternative risk transfer solutions subsidiary of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., has continued to build-out the breadth of its offering with the acquisition of another reinsurance related servicer EWI Re, Inc.

One of the benefits of a captive and something that can make them an attractive proposition for the capital markets, is the fact they offer a ready-made risk pool which is often quite specific in terms of the risks it contains and they can also find access to traditional sources of reinsurance tricky at times.

Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), via GC Securities and Marsh Captive Solutions, recently announced the launch of a new vehicle designed to support the access of capital markets-backed insurance-linked securities (ILS) protection, called Cerulean Re SAC Ltd.

GC Securities, the capital markets unit of reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, and Marsh Captive Solutions have jointly launched Cerulean Re, a collateralized reinsurance platform designed to make it simpler and more efficient for cedents to access collaterlized capacity or issue private catastrophe bonds.

A new study from Conning found that reinsurance companies are under pressure from all angles alternative, with the capital markets, captives and government-sponsored entities all taking risk that was once their domain.

Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands which sits in the English Channel south of the UK and close to France, is one of the world’s leading locations for licensing and domicile of international insurance entities. It has long been home to captive insurers, protected cell companies (PCCs)and incorporated cell companies and is now home to […]

Smaller firms are expressing  more interest in retaining their own risk and a growing interest in alternative risk transfer vehicles such as captive structures, special purpose vehicles and risk retention groups, according to broker Marsh’s 2012 Captive Benchmarking Report. We don’t cover this type of alternative risk transfer on Artemis very often, but any trend […]

The Cayman Islands are to amend their insurance legislation in an attempt to attract more reinsurance business to the islands. The Caymans are a popular domicile for hedge funds, banks, captives and re/insurers as well as being the domicile home to many insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond special purpose vehicles.

The Tennessee legislative and Governor Bill Haslem have implemented and signed into law a new bill designed to make the state a more attractive place for captive insurer formation. Amongst various changes to the way captives are governed in Tennessee of most interest to us is the introduction of a new class of captive insurer […]