More Captives Embrace ERM Programs
As part of its Captive Insurance Companies Association (CICA) coverage, CAPTIVE INTERNATIONAL recently reported that “An increasing number of captives are using their retained earnings to launch
Captivating Thinking
INSURE Your Way To Greater Wealth
Risk management is a challenging business. In the twenty-first century, companies (particularly small and mid-sized ones) face innumerable existential threats. For instance, cyber risk is a growing and wildly unpredictable threat as evidenced by the havoc wreaked on Equifax, Sony and Target (to name a few) by hackers. If cyber risk isn’t enough, terrorism and natural perils also pose significant threats to businesses and their operations (How long could your business last without power?). Environmental disasters are more and more common
Life Insurance As An Asset Class In A Captive Insurance Company
In a recent article published in the January issue of Business Insurance, Phil Karter, JD and Katherine Jordan, JD of Chamberlain Hrdlicka discuss life insurance as an asset class for captive insurance companies. In the article, Karter and Jordan explain several scenarios that demonstrate a captive investing in life insurance
Exposing Forbes Contributor and Captive Insurance “Expert” Jay Adkisson
By Sean King, JD, CPA, MAcc
Principal, CIC Services, LLC
On his Forbes.com blog and elsewhere, captive insurance attorney Jay Adkisson often writes condescendingly about the supposedly poor and tax-motivated work of other captive insurance professionals. Here is but one recent example:
By attempting to taint them as “tax shelter promoters”, he implicitly positions himself as lily-white, IRS-endorsed and tax-disinterested. If Mr. Adkisson’s writings are to be believed, the country is presently overrun