A captive insurance company is a an insurance company that insures
some or all of the risk of its parent company. It may also insure the
risks of the parent company`s clients. Using captive insurance companies
is a risk management tool by which a business creates its own insurance
company subsidiary to finance its retained losses in a formal
structure.
Types of captive insurance companies
Single Parent Captive - an insurance or reinsurance company formed
mainly to insure the risks of its non-insurance parent or affiliates.
Association Captive - a company owned by a trade, industry or service group for the benefit of its members.
Group Captive - a company, jointly owned by a number of companies,
created to provide a vehicle to meet a common insurance need.
Rent-A-Captive - a company that provides 'captive' facilities to others
for a fee, while protecting itself from losses under individual
programs, which are also isolated from losses under other programs
within the same company.
Agency Captive - a company owned by an insurance agency or brokerage
firm allowing the reinsurance of a portion of their clients risks
through that company.
Benefits of offshore captive insurance companies
- Tax benefits
- Reduced insurance costs
- Enhanced risk management
- Direct access to reinsurance markets
- Flexibility
- Reduced insurance costs
- Enhanced risk management
- Direct access to reinsurance markets
- Flexibility
Main captive domiciles
- Belize- Bermuda
- Cayman Islands
- Ireland
- Guernsey
- Singapore
- Luxembourg
- Barbados
- Malta
- Anguilla
- BVI
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