Friday, May 20, 2022
Lauren Ingram

WTW appoints Mike Johns to lead Guernsey operation

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Willis Towers Watson has announced that Mike Johns is to be the...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2022
Lauren Ingram

Power 50 2022: Hall of Fame

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The Captive Review Hall of Fame was launched six years ago, a...
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Monday, February 21, 2022
Ross Law

WTW make key Asia Pacific appointment

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Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has appointed Lawrence Bird to head up their...
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Monday, January 24, 2022
Ross Law

Aon VP joins Willis

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After 21 years with Aon, Vaibhavi (Bhavi) Patel has joined the Chicago...
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Wednesday, December 08, 2021
Ross Law

Ed Koral joins WTW

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Ed Koral has joined insurance company Willis Towers Watson as a director...
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Monday, November 22, 2021
Ross Law

Lesley Thompson appointed director at Oxbridge Re

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Insurance company Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited (the ‘company’) has appointed, with immediate...
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Thursday, August 19, 2021
Ross Law

Miller appoint Ron Whyte to spearhead Asia-Pacific expansion

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The specialist (re)insurance broker Miller has announced the appointment of Ron Whyte...
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Monday, July 26, 2021
Lauren Ingram

BREAKING: Aon and WTW pull out of merger

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Aon and Willis Towers Watson have announced they are pulling out of...
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Thursday, June 17, 2021
Ross Law

DoJ sues to halt Aon, Willis merger

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The US Department of Justice has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to...
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Thursday, May 20, 2021
Lauren Ingram

Meet the Power 50 Top 10

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The Captive Review Power 50 has been announced, with the best of the...
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Wednesday, May 05, 2021
Ross Law

SRS build out Guernsey executive team

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Strategic Risk Services (SRS) has hired Stephen Nash and Elyse Dandeker to...
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Monday, March 15, 2021
Ross Law

Miller continue international expansion with appointment of Charlie Simpson

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Miller, the captive consultancy and reinsurance broker, are set to continue their...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Lauren Ingram

Aon-WTW merger investigated by European Commission

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The European Commission has announced they have launched an in-depth investigation into...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Lauren Ingram

NFP hires WTW and Coverys captive execs

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Brokerage and consulting firm NFP has hired Willis Towers Watson's Tracy Stopford...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2020
Lauren Ingram

WTW-Aon merger reviewed by Australian watchdog

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The Willis Towers Watson-Aon merger is being scrutinised by the Australian Competition...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Lauren Ingram

Young confirms Paul Owens joining SRS

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Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS) has confirmed that Paul Owens, former head of...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020
Lauren Ingram

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Owens set to join SRS

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Paul Owens, the former head of the Willis Towers Watson captive practice,...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020
Lauren Ingram

WTW makes Cayman appointments

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Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has made two significant appointments in its Cayman...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2020
Lauren Ingram

Quarter of EB captives to raise premiums due to Covid

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A Willis Towers Watson (WTW) survey of captive owners with employee benefits...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Lauren Ingram

Aon asks employees to take pay cut

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Aon CEO Greg Case has asked employees to take a 20% pay...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Lauren Ingram

Guernsey captive numbers down

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Guernsey had seven new pure captives formed in 2019 but 17 captives...
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Wednesday, January 08, 2020
Lauren Ingram

Pinnacle names new principal

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Pinnacle Actuarial Resources (Pinnacle) has named Tim Mosler as a new principal and...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Lauren Ingram

Guernsey finance chief to leave

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Guernsey Board of Finance CEO Dominic Wheatley will leave his role in...
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Monday, December 02, 2019
Lauren Ingram

Willis Towers Watson VP joins KeyState

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Independent captive consultant and manager KeyState has hired David Guerino as senior...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Fraser Irving

Three pure, one RRG licensed in VT

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Vermont has licensed four new captives so far this quarter, taking its...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Fraser Irving

Willis Towers Watson MD joins SRS

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Independent captive manager Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS) has hired Stephen Gray in...
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Friday, November 01, 2019
Fraser Irving

Exclusive: WTW names Carter captive CEO

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Willis Towers Watson has named Peter Carter CEO of its global captive...
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Friday, October 25, 2019
Lauren Ingram

Siemens insurance exec joins Willis Towers Watson

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Insurance executive Frank Forster has moved from Siemens Financial Services, where he...
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Tuesday, October 08, 2019
Fraser Irving

Exclusive: WTW captive specialist departs

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Nicolas Leonard, a captive specialist at Willis Towers Watson (WTW), has left...
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Friday, October 04, 2019
Fraser Irving

Unbundling the European captive market

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The story of captive management in Europe compared to the United States...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2019
Fraser Irving

Unbundling the European captive market

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The story of captive management in Europe compared to the United States...
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Friday, September 20, 2019
Fraser Irving

Q&A: WTW’s Paul McNiff on US employee benefits

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Earlier this month, Willis Towers Watson announced that it was expanding its...
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Wednesday, September 04, 2019
Fraser Irving

WTW expands US benefits team

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Willis Towers Watson has expanded its benefit financing team in North America....
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Thursday, July 04, 2019
Fraser Irving

Vermont licences six captives in Q1, Q2

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The state of Vermont has licensed six new captives so far this...
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Monday, June 17, 2019
Fraser Irving

Rising to the challenge: A conversation with WTW’s captive CEO Paul Owens

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Last month, Captive Review exclusively revealed that Paul Owens, the CEO of...
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Monday, June 10, 2019
Fraser Irving

SRS hires WTW captive exec as managing director

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Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS) has hired Willis Towers Watson’s David Lewis as...
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Thursday, May 16, 2019
Fraser Irving

Owens to leave Willis Towers Watson

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Paul Owens, CEO of Willis Towers Watson's Global Captives Practice, is to...
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Wednesday, March 06, 2019
Fraser Irving

Guernsey backs captive solution for pension risks

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A captive-based solution should be considered for management of defined benefit pension...
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Friday, January 25, 2019
Fraser Irving

Coinbase sets up Cayman SPC

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Cryptocurrency platform Coinbase has set up a segregated portfolio company (SPC) in...
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Friday, January 11, 2019
Fraser Irving

Arrowsmith joins WTW as Bermuda head of client service, development

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Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has hired Steve Arrowsmith as EVP, head of...
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Monday, October 22, 2018
Richard Cutcher

Captives fighting for concessions in tough Solvency II domiciles

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Captives in Germany and Sweden are reviewing their domicile options while fighting...
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Thursday, September 13, 2018
Captive Review

Denys Kazama joins WTW in Hawaii

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Willis Towers Watson has appointed Denys Kazama as senior account executive in...
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Thursday, August 02, 2018
Captive Review

WTW launches digital feasibility product

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Willis Towers Watson is rolling out a new digital tool designed to...
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Monday, July 09, 2018
Richard Cutcher

Ian Podmore joins Willis Towers Watson

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Willis Towers Watson has appointed Ian Podmore as head of captive underwriting...
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Monday, May 28, 2018
Richard Cutcher

Marine blockchain pilot goes live

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Insurwave, a blockchain venture between EY, Guardtime and shipping giant Møller-Maersk, is...
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Monday, April 16, 2018
Richard Cutcher

Ciarán Healy to lead WTW’s European captive team

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Ciarán Healy has been promoted to head of international development and consulting at...
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Monday, February 26, 2018
Richard Cutcher

Exclusive: Paul Bailie takes reins at WTW’s Bermuda captive operation

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The Bermuda office in Willis Towers Watson’s global captive practice is now...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Richard Cutcher

Consolidation and new lines defining healthcare activity in US

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Existing healthcare company-owned captives are beginning to explore more complex lines of...
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Richard Cutcher

Paul Devitt to join WTW from Aon Hewitt

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Employee benefits consultant Paul Devitt left Aon Hewitt on Friday, 19 May,...
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Friday, March 17, 2017
Captive Review

A Game Changing Merger

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The merger of Willis and Towers Watson has helped to create the...
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Thursday, March 09, 2017
Richard Cutcher

EB captives show greater savings

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Multinational companies are increasingly turning towards pooling and captive arrangements to address...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Richard Cutcher

Year in Review: David Lewis

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As 2016 draws to a close, Captive Review has asked a number...
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Captive Review

Employee Benefits Report 2017

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The past 12 months have witnessed a dramatic uptake of interest in...
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Richard Cutcher

WTW bullish over captive growth in Europe

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Paul Owens and Nicolas Léonard, of the Willis Towers Watson global captive...
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Friday, November 11, 2016
Richard Cutcher

Run-off options are vital for captive owners – Paul Owens

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Paul Owens, CEO of the Willis Towers Watson global captive practice, has...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Richard Cutcher

Third party risk a big driver of African captive activity

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The spread of the captive concept in Africa is largely being driven...
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Wednesday, August 03, 2016
Richard Cutcher

Control of data key driver of EB captives – WTW

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Forty-four per cent of captive owners writing employee benefits through their insurance...
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Thursday, June 02, 2016
Richard Cutcher

Willis Towers Watson adds Switzerland to domicile portfolio

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The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has approved an application from...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Captive Review

Justifying Your Captive and Increasing its Value

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As departmental budgets are increasingly scrutinised and squeezed, risk and insurance managers need...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Richard Cutcher

China finds itself in a “perfect storm” for captive formations

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An aggressive international acquisition strategy, a regulatory drive towards significant premium growth...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Captive Review

Hawaii Report 2016

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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the passage of Hawaii’s captive law.  Hawaii’s...
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Monday, April 11, 2016
Richard Cutcher

Willis pinch Sogecore MD to head Luxembourg office

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Willis Towers Watson has installed Nicolas Léonard as the new head of Gras...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2016
Richard Cutcher

Willis Towers Watson appoints regional MD for European captive practice

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Willis Towers Watson has appointed Nigel Goodlad its new regional managing director...
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Features
Q&A: Big Ticket’s Ken Fraser and Rob Bartlett
Fresh from winning Insurtech Solution of the Year at the Captive Review US Awards earlier...
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Growth opportunities for PCCs and PCC cells in the UK and Europe
Michael Whitfield of Atlas Insurance PCC explains how, after the disruption caused by Brexit, the...
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North Carolina: A leader in cell captives
Lori Gorman of the North Carolina Department of Insurance answers Captive Review’s questions about the...
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831(b) Institute: IRS campaign against micro-captives threatens large captives
The IRS is biding its time by taking on micro-captives and will eventually refocus on...
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