In episode 105 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, Richard is first joined by Kevin Mead, president of the Vermont Captive Insurance Association (VCIA), and Maigh Wright, the 2024 VCIA conference chair, to talk us through this year's programme and some important changes and highlights.

For more information and to register for VCIA 2024, held in Burlington, Vermont from Monday, 12 August to Wednesday, 14 August, click here.

In the second half of the episode, Richard sits down with Olga Collins, CEO of the Worldwide Broker Network, and Anne Marie Towle, CEO of Hylant Global Risk and Captive Solutions, a founder member of the WBN, to discuss the growing awareness and interest in captives from the broker community and how captive managers and brokers can work together to provide optimal solutions.

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In episode 104 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, Richard shares three interviews recorded at the RISKWORLD conference in San Diego at the start of May.

02.11 - 11.34: Pete Kranz, senior vice president for risk finance and strategic solutions at Alliant Insurance Services, and Alex Littlejohn, EVP and managing director, discuss how Alliant is working with captive clients and the wrong, as well as the right, times to deploy a captive solution.

12.10 - 23.37: Stephen Lathrope, senior vice president at ICEYE, explains how his company’s satellite data could be deployed to support captive insurance programmes, particularly on property exposures.

24.11 - 34.58: Typhaine Beauperin, CEO of FERMA, and Charlotte Hedemark, the recently elected FERMA president, share the latest developments at the Federation, its priorities and recent progress on captive related topics.

We have also released the following episodes that were recorded at RISKWORLD:

GCP Short: The Extra Space Storage captive evolution

GCP Short: Edgware Re, the cyber group captive

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with Spring Consulting Group, Richard welcomes Tracy Hassett, president and CEO of edRISK, back onto the podcast.

edRISK is a sponsored captive owner in Vermont which serves its educational institution members on a growing range of business insurance lines.

Originally formed as a group captive to support its members in reducing health insurance costs, on 1 June it went live with two new programmes for property and general liability and educators legal liability.

We are also joined by Prabal Lakhanpal, senior vice president at Spring Consulting Group, who are long term partners of edRISK and have worked closely on the restructuring and launch of these new progammes.

Tracy and Prabal talk about evolution into a sponsored captive structure, why and how that was done, and explain why edRISK has branched out from just offering medical stop loss.

Tracy originally featured on the Global Captive Podcast in September 2020 on GCP #38.

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