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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with Spring Consulting Group, Richard welcomes Tracy Hassett, president and CEO of edRISK, back onto the podcast.

edRISK is a sponsored captive owner in Vermont which serves its educational institution members on a growing range of business insurance lines.

Originally formed as a group captive to support its members
in reducing health insurance costs, on 1 June it went live with two new programmes for property and general liability and educators legal liability.

We are also joined by Prabal Lakhanpal, senior vice
president at Spring Consulting Group, who are long term partners of edRISK and have worked closely on the restructuring and launch of these new progammes.

Tracy and Prabal talk about evolution into a sponsored captive structure, why and how that was done, and explain why edRISK has branched out from just offering medical stop loss.

Tracy originally featured on the Global Captive Podcast in September 2020 on GCP #38.

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This GCP Short, produced in partnership with Brown & Brown, looks in depth at the evolution and growth of the pure captive owned by ExtraSpace Storage.

ExtraSpace is a publicy listed real estate investment trust that invests in and manages self storage facilities and has grown incredibly quickly in recent years, as you will hear.

While at RISKWORLD in San Diego earlier this month, Richard sat down with Kacey Kalian, VIP of risk management at ExtraSpace, alongside his captive managers and consultants Jason Flaxbeard and Bobby Mayer, of Brown & Brown.

Kacey shared the journey of ExtraSpace, both as a business and captive owner, and explained how the captive strategy has been a key business enabler and profit maker in its own right for the company.

The trio also discuss, in depth, how its tenant insurance programme works and some keys to success.

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In episode 103 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, Richard has two interesting and newsy conversations.

02.01 - 17.12: First, he is joined by Loredana Mazzoleni Neglén, global CEO of new Switzerland-based managing general underwriter SRS Altitude, and Thomas Keist, chief commercial officer.

Loredana and Tom discuss why Altitude has launched, what its focus will be and the unique proposition working with an MGU provides to large corporate insurance buyers.

17.51 - 34.21: Richard is joined by Clinton Casabella, a title reinsurance expert in the United States and SVP of business development at Grid151. Clint works with Westcor Specialty to sell title insurance to corporates, but is now increasingly supporting captives in writing the line of business.

Clint enlightens us about all things title insurance and why he believes the business line is an appealing fit for captives.

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In this GCP Short, produced in partnership with Marsh Captive Solutions, Richard is joined by Ellen Charnley, president of Marsh Captive Solutions, and Tom Raegan, global head of cyber at Marsh Specialty, to discuss the genesis of Edgware Re, its new Bermuda-domiciled group captive for cyber.

Recorded at RISKWORLD in San Diego last week, Ellen and Tom share insight on how Edgware Re can fit into an insured’s broader insurance programme and continued evolution of captive deployment within cyber risk financing strategies.

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In episode 102 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, Richard brings two very different interviews.

01.30 - 12.50: Matthew Reddington, partner and head of the tax controversy practice at ZMF, discusses the recent jury verdict in favour of RMC Group and its CEO Raymond Ankner in a court battle with the Internal Revenue Service.

13.51 - 36.04: Loren Crannell, director and head of global risk and insurance at American e-cigarette company Juul Labs, tells me why forming a captive has been such an important enabler for the business in recent years.

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In episode 101 of the Global Captive Podcast, supported by the EY Global Captive Network, Richard is joined by David Williams, Director of Risk Management & Safety at Boys Town, to discuss the Tennessee-captive formed by the not-for-profit in 2022.

Richard also catches up with Michael Corbett, senior vice president at Pinnacle Financial Partners, and a non-executive director on the Boys Town captive.

Corbett, Tennessee's former captive regulator, is also now president of the bank's Apex Captive Insurance Company.

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