In episode 122 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, Richard previews the 2025 VCIA annual conference with VCIA CEO Kevin Mead and Over the Ryan Gadapee, this year's conference chair.

The VCIA conference is celebrating its 40th year from 11-13 August at the Hilton DoubleTree in Burlington.

The deadline for early bird conference rate is June 30 and you need to have a conference ticket to have access to the VCIA block of hotel rooms. Register at VCIA.com.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with Marsh CaptiveSolutions, we take a look at what the largest insurance manager in the world’s annual benchmarking data tells us about the captive landscape in 2024.

Rob Geraghty, International Sales and Consulting Leader, and Julie Patel, Americas Captive Consulting Leader at Marsh Captive Solutions, outline what areas they saw most captive growth in 2024, both in gross written premium and new formations, and spotlight specific sectors that appear to be particularly embracing captives right now.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with AXA XL, Richard is joined by three leaders in the Asia Pacific captive market to discuss activity and trends in Australia, Hong Kong, China and South East Asia.

Evelyn Pang, AXA XL's Multinational Solutions & Captive Manager in Asia, shares an update on exciting movements in Hong Kong and China, as well as latest developments in Singapore and South East Asia.

Stephen Nguyen, AXA XL's Head of Distribution, Marketing & Communications in Australia, discusses how the mature local market is utilising captives further.

Shiwei Jin, AXA XL's Head of Multinational Solutions for APAC &Europe, explains what trends she is seeing on the multinational side and, in particular, some factors driving more activity in Japan.

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This GCP Short, produced in partnership with Aon, is focused on utilising captives for pensions strategies.

Over the next 20 minutes or I am joined by Mike Pickard, director of global ILS and commercial management at Aon, and Alex Skinner, associate partner in Aon's Corporate Consulting Practice and head of pension captive solutions.

While using captives and incorporated cells to de-riskor execute pension longevity swaps has been a fairly well trodden path over the past 20 years, it has never really gone mainstream. And there are, of course, lots of different waysfor captives to interact with and support company pension schemes.

Mike and Alex explain a strategy very much back on the table for large corporates, but Mike starts us off by providing some context as to how we have seen captives used in this space before.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with Jeometri Insurance Managers, Richard is joined by Darren Wadley, founder and executive director, and Aaron Slattery, client services director, begin a discussion on cell and captive utilisation for commercial brokers and entrepreneurs.

Jeometri is an independent insurance manager in Guernsey, that was acquired by Alpha Growth Plc last year.

Darren and Aaron explain how a proposed new cell company, currently pending regulatory approval, should help to bring more innovation and captive strategies to the commercial market.

For more information on Jeometri, visit its website.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with London & Capital, we take a closer look at the volatile international trade war kicked off since President Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term and the considerations for captives and their investment strategies.

In a 30 minute discussion, I am joined by Chris Dalziel, executive director, and James Mee, co-head of multi-asset strategies, to provide analysis of the knock-on effects of the tariff back-and-forth to date, balancing the long and short-term priorities for captive investment portfolios, and why an active investment strategy can be effective in a volatile environment such as this.

As reported on Captive Intelligence in March, longtime Friends of the Podcast London & Capital will be ⁠rebrandedas W1M⁠ in June after its merger with Waverton Investment Management last year.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with Brown & Brown, Luke hosts a discussion with Marc Bentley, head of global risk finance at IHG Plc, which owns a sophisticated multi-linecaptive in Vermont, and Mat Robinson, senior managing director and captive operations leader at Brown & Brown.

Making his third appearance on the Global Captive Podcast, Marc discusses the history of IHG’s captive structure including why they consolidated from multiple captives down to the one existing entity in Vermont, as well as the group’s overall captive strategy and approach to insurable risks.

Mat explains the role of the captive manager in working with a mature captive, such as IHG’s.

This interview was recorded at the VCIA conference in Burlington, Vermont in August 2024 with our senior reporter Luke Harrison hosting.

Marc Bentley also appeared on GCP in October 2023 discussing employee benefits. Listen here.

His first appearance on GCP was in October 2020 when he discussed financing retained risk. Listen here.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with AXA XL, we hear about a groundbreaking insurance programme putin place by the Swiss Federal Railways, known as SBB.

Robert Eigenheer, Head of Corporate Finance at the Swiss Federal Railways, explains the company’s approach to sustainability and how it uses its captive and insurance programmes to incentivise the business units to meet the group’s objectives.

We are also joined by Marine Charbonnier, Head of Underwriting for Captives and Facultatives in Europe and APAC at AXAL, one of the insurers supporting the innovative sustainability-linked insurance programme.

Marine explains how AXA XL is seeing and working with clients on utilising their captives to support sustainability initiatives.

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