In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with HDI Global, Richard discusses supply chain risk and how captives can play a role in risk financing.

Dan Sammons, Captive Manager for HDI in the UK and Ireland, and Kate Sutcliffe, Chief Underwriting Officer for Short Tail business in the same region, explain why supply chain is a challenging area for clients and insurers, and how an insured’s captive can play an important role in facilitating a broader risk financing approach.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with Aon, we discuss utilising captives in a soft insurance market.

Captive formations surged in the period 2019 to 2024 when the tough commercial market was at its hardest. But according to formations tracked by Ci DataHub this year, 2025 is keeping on track for another bumper year of new captive formations.

Captives may not be wholly market cycle dependent, but how they are utilised in soft and hard markets can differ and insurance buyers can benefit from a nimble and flexible approach to how they deploy their captive.

Joining Richard for a conversation on how to get the most from a captive in a soft market is Jay Curtis, Director of EnterpriseClient Captive Solutions in the Americas for Aon, Diane Hanson, Managing Director & Head of Aon’s Vermont Captive Management Office, and Michelle D'Amico, Associate Director of Aon Risk Finance & Captive Consulting.

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In episode 126 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, Richard is joined by CICA President Dan Towle, while Senior Reporter Luke hosts a discussion with 831(b) captive owner Drake Plastics Ltd and Dustin Carlson, President of SRA 831(b) Admin.

02:11 - 14:24: CICA President Dan Towle explains why he is confident the UK can become a successful captive domicile, the Association's growing involvement in the UK and European markets and plans for the CICA International Conference, held in Palm Desert, California from March 8 - 10, 2026.

Further reading from Captive Intelligence:

UK has all the tools for captive success, but proportionality “key ingredient”

Captives Coming Home? … What DataHub tells us about UK-owned captives

16:06 - 31:40: Luke interviews Dustin Carlson, President of SRA 831(b) Admin, and Steven Quance, President of Drake Plastics Ltd, to explain how micro-captives are valuable risk financing and management tools, and why they are pushing back through the courts against what they see as regulatory overreach by the Internal Revenue Service in the United States.

Further reading from Captive Intelligence:

Drake Plastics files second lawsuit against IRS concerning 831(b) captives

IRS finalises 831(b) regulations, concedes on loss ratio criticism

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with the Hawaii Captive Insurance Council (HCIC), Richard is joined by Paul Shimomoto, Chair of the HCIC and Partner at law firmGoodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, and Matt Takamine, Director of HCIC and Captive Practice Leader at Brown & Brown.

The trio discuss recent activity in the domicile, accelerating interest from Japan and its upcoming 40th anniversary as a domicile.

Matt and Paul also explain how Hawaii continues to stand out as premier captive domicile in an increasingly competitive landscape, if momentum in Japan may be about to move up a notch and why it is important that the annual Forum in October returns to Maui this year.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with the EY Global Captive Network, Richard discusses the shifting domicile landscape and the factors that go into choosing a jurisdiction.

In a 22 minute episode, Richard is joined by Mikhail Raybshteyn, Partner and Americas Captive Insurance Servicesco-leader, Ted Clabault, Managing Director at EY, and Patrick Theriault, Managing Director at Strategic Risk Solutions.

The group debates what is driving domicile selection today, how the emergence of new domiciles and so called ‘home’ options are changing the equation and where international tax initiatives such as BEPS Pillar 2 are influencing decisions.

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In episode 125 of the Global Captive Network, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, Richard is joined by Joe Peiser, Global CEO of Aon Commercial Risk.

Richard met Joe at the VCIA annual conference in Burlington, Vermont in August where they also spoke on the closing keynote panel together.

Joe shares his perspective on the captive market, its importance to Aon and where he sees it going in the future.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with HDI Global, and we discuss international programmes and the important role captives play in facilitating them.

For multinational companies, it is common for a captive to play a role in the layers of an international programme, utilising one or more fronting partners to bring consistency across many, sometimes hundreds, of territories.

Richard is joined by Jelto Borgmann, Head of Captive Services at HDI Global, and Kerstin Kader, Head of HGN Technical Accounting and Intercompany, at the German multinational insurer.

Jelto and Kerstin discuss why international programmes are relevant for captives, how to overcome challenges and complexity such as currency fluctuations and premium transfer, and the importance of getting compliance right in every territory.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with Guy Carpenter, Richard takes a closer look at the surge in group captive business in the United States.

Naturally on GCP we do tend to focus more on pure captives and even captive cell utilisation, but the growth in group captives, particularly in the United States, has been huge in recent year.

The US market brings large groups of mid market or smaller companies together to insure an increasing range of lines such as workers’ comp, auto, property and various liability coverages, and is opening up the captive concept to a huge pool of insureds.

Richard is joined by Rob Collins, Captive Segment Leader and Managing Director at Guy Carpenter, and Linda Johnson, Executive Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer at Old Republic Risk Management.

Our two guests provide services to group captives across the US, and they share their views on why we are seeing such growth in this area, what is driving some of the new trends, and how to tackle certain challenges such as fronting, legacy management and reinsurance.

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