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Critical Point Episode 54: Why life insurers are investing in private equity and real estate
Alternative asset classes, particularly private equity and commercial real estate, and how they’re used in strategic asset allocations within the insurance industry.
Is cyber insurance still relevant for the captive market?
Evidence suggests the commercial market for cyber insurance has begun to stabilize. Should insurers continue to pursue writing cyber in their captives?

Is it all about taxes? A cash flow approach to captive insurance
A company deciding to retain its risk faces the decision between self-insuring or forming a single-parent captive insurance company.

Circular flow of funds for captive insurers: Argument or fact?
Over the past decade, captive insurers and their owners making the 831(b) tax election have come under scrutiny from the IRS.

Parametric insurance: A captivating solution
Parametric policies, which pay based on the magnitude of an event, can bridge coverage gaps that are difficult to insure with a traditional indemnity policy.

Rethinking risk management: Strategies to address an increasingly complex world of risks
Risks such as COVID-19, climate change, cyberattacks, and evolving socioeconomic issues are not isolated to one side of a balance sheet, or one fiscal year.

U.S. insurers and climate change: The longer-term horizon is getting shorter

Captive insurance: The health insurance analogy
Captive insurance is a narrow niche within the insurance industry that is often not all that well understood, even by insurance professionals.

Captivating savings: Are captives more profitable than other forms of insurance?
Learn more on whether single parent captive insurers themselves earn higher profits than other forms of insurance.

Captives can be an insurtech accelerator
Even before the coronavirus, obstacles existed that slowed the uptake of insurtech solutions that targeted the reduction of customers’ losses.

Insurance collaboration is a captivating idea
The P&C insurance industry would benefit from more direct collaboration and communication with its customers.

Estimating the impact of claim inflation on self-insured liabilities
Expenses related to the self-insurance of liabilities for professional liability and workers' compensation coverage are highly exposed to increases in the inflation rate.