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This provides a guide for directors to the advantages and potential pitfalls associated with the creation and running of captive insurance companies. We examine this issue principally from the perspective of the parent company or partnership board.
Date:
10th June 2025
This guide describes how a business can identify the general insurance it needs and how to buy this cost-effectively. It will discuss the role of the insurer, insurance broker and other stakeholders in the process, and what they will expect from the business.
Date:
10th June 2025
Choosing an insurance broker is an important decision in the purchase of insurance. This guide is designed to offer advice on the process of running a tender for services and negotiating a contract with a broker.
Date:
10th June 2025
Captives are now a mainstream part of an agile, intelligent and resilient risk financing strategy. The use of captives for the incubation of emerging risks, blended catastrophe covers and sustainability projects is directly aligning the use of captives to the strategies of organisations.
Date:
4th March 2025
Risk appetite is an inherent part of human decision-making and should be considered explicitly when comparing the potential outcomes of decision alternatives. It plays a key role in the way reasonable assurance over the adequacy of risk management is formed and communicated to the Board.
Date:
11th December 2024
A combination of underlying political tensions in various regions is leading to a more destabilised global order. How can directors reliably assess both the short and long-term impact and consequences of so varied and amorphous a set of issues on their businesses?
Date:
6th November 2024
This guide highlights the best practices and common pitfalls faced by organisations preparing for cyber incidents, and their resulting claims processes.
Date:
10th September 2024
This note outlines the insurance cover that may be available to organisations that have been impacted by the outage, and the steps organisations should take now to maximise their potential recoveries.
Date:
26th July 2024
As capacity becomes restricted for complex risks, captives are filling the gaps left by the traditional insurance market. Corporates are increasingly recognising the additional benefits of captives, such as using them as a risk incubator.
Date:
26th June 2024
A concurrence of electoral cycles across so many countries provides a steady drumbeat of potential flashpoints throughout 2024, holding the attention of risk and insurance professionals. Includes results of the 2024 Airmic Big Question surveys.
Date:
4th June 2024