Michel Léonard, PhD, CBE, Chief Economist and Data Scientist at the Insurance Information Institute, will provide data driven insight into how monetary policy, economics, and political risk will impact P&C insurance performance in 2025 and beyond. Specific lines covered are homeowners, commercial property, personal and commercial auto, general liability, and workers compensation. In additional,

Michel will discuss how these factors are expected to impact returns on P&C carriers' assets under management.

In this session attendees will hear about trending captive uses from a panel of captive owners and their strategic use of captives in the last 5 years.

Following this presentation, audience members will be able to think strategically about their own captive or a captive they are planning on forming and building over the next several years.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

Expanding the usage of a captive program can come soon after formation or long into the captive journey. In either case, how a captive is expanded should be a strategic discussion and well-thought-out timeline.  This session will explore the thought process and timeline for adding, and not adding, certain lines of coverage, and the various discussions that place throughout the process.

Following this presentation, audience members will understand how to add, remove, or adjust additional lines of coverages into their captive, includes limit adjustments, coverage definitions, coverage dates, and funding levels. Attendees will also learn how to facilitate internal discussions while understanding the team approach and financial decisions need prior to implementation.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

Step into our vibrant Social Café in the Expo Hall, where you can relax, explore exciting exhibits, connect with industry leaders, and enjoy a variety of refreshing drinks and snacks—perfect for networking and recharging!

The age old question, why buy insurance if I’m not gonna have any losses?  Well…there are obvious considerations.  Is there a regulatory reason, contract compliance, or the boss just said “buy it”. This session explores the many reasons to buy, or not, insurance and uses a filter rational to produce an outcome.  Captives are then an integral tool in aiding in these decision and providing solutions when markets cannot.

Following this presentation, audience members will have gained a foundation to logically evaluate if insurance purchasing is needed, be able to identify how risk tolerance impacts buying/retain decisions, and understanding of how a captive plays an integral role in program structure.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

This Panel will talk about the vast differences between the Insurance/Reinsurance markets in South America (notably, Colombia and Brazil) and North America (Predominantly Mexico); the markets Pre and Post Covid; and the subsequent resurgence in the principal countries in the LatAm region and current opportunities for Latin American Multinationals and those large “foreign” institutions with great interests in the LatAm Mining and Energy industries, as well as the potential to better utilize the countries’ Health Systems; improved technology (Insurtech anyone?) and its connections to Digital Insurance’s ecosystems and platforms. The Panel will also cover the main Domiciles and why Offshore.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

The process for accomplishing effective regulatory change is often difficult, complicated, and confusing. From coordinated PR campaigns to traditional, formal lobbying efforts, this panel will provide firsthand detail and a case study on what it takes to get the attention of elected leadership in order to successfully enact legislative change as it directly relates to the captive insurance industry.

Following this presentation, attendees will gain an understanding of the education and advocacy efforts needed to engage Congressional members and encourage the IRS to clarify its proposed regulations. They will also be informed about past legislative victories, examples of successful outreach to lawmakers, and the resulting legislative actions that have impacted the captive space, while being better equipped to take future action in support of advocacy for legislative change.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

Attendees are invited to grab lunch and join a roundtable topic of interest. Halfway through lunch, attendees will be given the option to switch topics or continue with their current topic. 

In this engaging session, industry experts will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation are reshaping the landscape of captive insurance. Attendees will gain insights into the latest technological advancements and their implications from regulatory expectations to operations to client offerings within captive organizations. The discussion will highlight real-world examples of successful AI integration, the challenges faced during digital transformation, and best practices for navigating this evolving environment.

Following this presentation, audience members will gain insights on how AI and digital innovations are transforming the captive insurance industry, with practical strategies for implementation, overcoming challenges, and real-world examples of success.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

A session description will be available soon. 

A session description will be available soon. 

This session will guide participants through the essential considerations for organizations evaluating group captive programs versus single-parent captive programs as effective strategies for managing unique risk profiles. The presentation will outline the structural differences, key benefits, and potential limitations of each approach, providing a comprehensive framework for decision-making based on organizational goals, financial capacity, risk tolerance, and operational needs.

A highlight of this session will be an interactive case study discussion, where the panel will examine findings from a feasibility study comparing group captive and single-parent captive formations. Attendees will gain hands-on insights as the panel analyzes a real-world scenario, exploring critical elements such as cost-benefit analysis, capital requirements, governance structures, and risk diversification.

Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how to weigh various factors, including regulatory considerations, scalability, and strategic alignment with business objectives, in the context of captive formation. Through this practical case study example, attendees will see firsthand how these decision factors come into play, along with an informed look at the operational benefits and challenges specific to each model.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

History shows diversification creates more effective insurance companies and captives are realizing those benefits in innovative ways. This “compounding diversity” can be obtained by captives and be highly effective.

Employee Benefits supports programs with:

• Flexibility on benefit design, terms & conditions.
• ​​​​​Greater control over insured risks; price stability and cash flow optimization.
• Increased access to data with risk diversification benefits of life & medical

Property & Casualty supports programs with:

• Long-standing predictable risks
• New techniques for new & emerging risk

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

In a session moderated by Nick Frost of Davies Captive Management, industry leading and award winning reinsurance brokers, Michael Woodroffe of Kirkway International and Rick Hartmann III of Guy Carpenter join forces with a titan in the captive fronting industry, Jason Tyng of HDI Global, to share the latest reinsurance market trends, strategies for increasing captive utilization to counter market head winds and how fronting carriers are evaluating potential captive partners and captive opportunities.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

Join the afternoon Ice Cream Social Café in the Expo Hall, where you can reinvigorate, explore exhibits, connect with industry leaders, and enjoy a variety of refreshing drinks, snacks, and ice cream—perfect for networking and recharging!

This session promises a thrilling case study of a simple, well-intentioned Fortune 500 company’s use of analytics, faced with the daunting headwinds of a complex market and, dare we say, intimidating actuarial output! 

This riveting tale will address existential questions like: how can captive leadership make critical decisions amidst a turbulent marketplace? How will I ever understand simple takeaways from complex actuarial analyses? And most importantly, will the captive survive the storm? 

Hold onto your popcorn as we work through how the company leverages analytics in its front-end decision making in selecting optimal retentions, considering the amount of capital at play. Then, get ready to dive into how the captive monitored its performance throughout- and post-COVID, leveraging the actuarial report and monthly monitoring of underlying trends by key cost driver category (e.g., cause of loss and region-specific metrics). Then, a scary twist awaits us as we end by taking on the simple task of… allocating property insurance costs! Oh no – not so simple!

Following this presentation, audience members will be able to understand the trade-off of captive retention options, and how the cost of capital can be quantified, how a company severely impacted by COVID and recent litigation reform monitors cost drivers monthly, and how these results interact with actuarial estimates for the captive, and be able to hink holistically about all options related to allocating costs associated with low-frequency/high-severity lines like property, while balancing YOY stability and incentivizing safety.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

The session will focus on various topics in the indirect tax space that impact captive insurance companies and their owners (e.g. Self Procurement Tax, Excise Tax, State and Local Tax, Premium Tax, etc.).  The speakers will cover technical merits, types of applicable structures, consideration points for captives, owners and captive managers, and will talk about developments and war stories.

Following this presentation, audience members will be able to identify potentially applicable non-federal tax considerations, understand what needs to be considered during feasibility or health check process, and assess steps needed to confirm exposure.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

Today’s collateral and capital requirements for Captives can be challenging.  Recent innovations in legacy reinsurance have developed solutions to reduce these challenges and streamline operations.  The panelists will discuss how these solutions can be applied and how it will impact their respective industry sectors.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

This powerhouse panel of highly respected veteran captive professionals will discuss hot emerging trends in captive insurance including the health industry, cell captives, coverages, business opportunities and much more.  This is a not to be missed session if you want to be on the cutting edge.

ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

A session description will be available soon. 

A session title will be available soon. 

This fully interactive discussion will feature real-world, actionable investment ideas for today's captive market.  John Stoltzfus—Chief Investment Strategist at Oppenheimer Asset Management will bring 40 years of market strategy and history to bear and highlight attractive and risky areas of investment. Jack Meskunas, MBA ACI® --Captive Insurance Asset Management Advisor at Oppenheimer & Co with 34 years-experience working with captives will highlight turning strategy into investments.  Mark Barrie, Program Manager at Cal-Southampton will participate and give thoughts and discuss the current concerns and goals for captives. 

Following this presentation, audience members will understand now how to review their current investments and isolate areas that need to be increased, held, or decreased and have gained an up-to-date understanding of attractive areas of the investment markets, and how the new government will affect their investments. 

This session will discuss US and foreign international tax issues facing both tax exempt and non-tax exempt captives domiciled offshore. Included in the discussion will be qualification as an insurance company, treatment of non-insurance transactions/entities, the implications of CFC and PFIC status, the approach to calculating UBTI and subpart F income, the Federal Excise Tax, Section 953(d) domestication elections, US trade or business and withholding tax issues and the implications of reinsurance. We will also touch on the application of the new Bermuda corporate income tax and Pillar 2. The presentation will walk through each of those items from the perspective of a captive owned by a for-profit enterprise and a tax-exempt entity, including structuring, accounting, documentation and operational considerations.

Following this presentation, audience members will be able to understand the tax implications of owning and operating an offshore captive, differentiate between the structuring considerations when a captive is owned by a tax-exempt vs. for-profits corporation, and understand recent tax developments happening outside the US and their impacts on captives.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

One of the hardest parts about starting a captive as the company’s risk advisor is explaining it. The C-Suite is the key to starting the process of a captive and if they are not properly educated on it, then it may get pushed to the end of the list. It is always important to remember that insurance and risk mitigation is not everyone’s day job, so when talking about insurance we have to talk about it at a more elementary level so everyone can understand and no one feels uncomfortable. In this panel, we will go through some tips and tricks that service providers and captive owners have used to educate their companies or clients about the captive process. One issue risk managers tend to face is the “Why”, and so we will run through an overview of the life cycle of a captive and what questions might come up through each stage. Another crucial point that will be touched on is how to have these conversations when there may be turnover in upper-level management.

Following this presentation, audience members will be able to answer the “Why is starting a captive beneficial for our organization?” and educate their C-Suite on the basics of captive insurance.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants. 

This regulatory update session will highlight the latest key developments in captive insurance regulation across various domiciles. Participants will explore trends, best practices, and crucial laws and regulations currently shaping the captive insurance industry and its operating environment.

Following this session, audience members will understand key regulatory developments impacting captive domiciles, be able to analyze current trends and best practices impacting the captive insurance industry, and be able to assess how current and prospective laws and regulations are affecting the captive industry and shaping the operating environment.

 ICCIE Continued Education credit available for session participants.