Categories & Criteria


Actuarial Firm

Audit & Accountancy Services

Captive Broking Services

Captive Collaboration Project

Captive Compliance Specialist

Captive Consultant

Captive Domicile of the Year - Less than $5bn Gross Written Premium

Captive Domicile of the Year - More than $5bn Gross Written Premium

Captive Innovation Award

Captive Manager of the Year – More than $1bn Gross Written Premium

Captive Manager of the year - Less than $1bn of Gross Written Premium

Captive Risk Manager of the Year

Captive Service Professional of the Year

Cell Captive Initiative

Claims Specialist

Collateral Specialist

ESG Captive Initiative

Emerging Talent

Employee Benefits Network

Fronting Partner

Insurtech Solution for Captives

Investment Specialist

Legacy Solutions

Legal Services

Next Gen Initiative

Software Solution

Underwriting Solution of the Year

Actuarial Firm

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Quality risk modelling, and details of the data behind actuarial decisions;
  • Case studies demonstrating the performance of US captive clients;
  • Numbers demonstrating growth/expansion in the actuarial firm itself;
  • How the firm has introduced a new innovation and/or technology to the benefit of clients

Audit & Accountancy Services

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Delivering clients a quick and efficient service in their tax reporting and/or audit requirements;
  • Case studies where the firm have understood and responded well to a specific/unique set of requirements;
  • Numbers demonstrating growth in the audit & accountancy firm

Captive Broking Services

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Quality service when placing reinsurance for ART programmes;
  • Case studies of where a broker has gone above and beyond in the level of service/support provided to a US captive client;
  • Numbers demonstrating growth in the broker's captive services department

Captive Collaboration Project

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • A specific project involving firms that produced an innovative captive solution to a problem, a solution that wouldn’t have been possible without the collaboration;
  • What each party did in the collaboration, looking for as close to an equal input as possible;
  • The positive outcomes of this collaboration, ideally backed up by numbers

Captive Compliance Specialist

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Deep knowledge of a specific/niche area of regulation/compliance;
  • Case studies where a compliance specialist as demonstrated excellence, either in the level of niche knowledge or in how quickly they have responded to changes in regulation

Captive Consultant

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Expertise in risk management solutions;
  • Case studies of the consultancy service provided to a US captive client and the positive outcomes this advice generated for the client;
  • Customer satisfaction among captive clients;
  • Growth in the captive consultancy itself

Captive Domicile of the Year - Less than $5bn Gross Written Premium

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Excellence in the response of domicile regulators to its captives' needs, either through regulation, or any other proactive initiatives;
  • Numbers demonstrating growth in the domicile, in both number of captives and growth in premium;
  • Innovations introduced that have had a clear positive outcome, ideally backed by numbers

Captive Domicile of the Year - More than $5bn Gross Written Premium

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Excellence in the response of domicile regulators to its captives' needs, either through regulation, or any other proactive initiatives;
  • Numbers demonstrating growth in the domicile, in both number of captives and growth in premium;
  • Innovations introduced that have had a clear positive outcome, ideally backed by numbers

Captive Innovation Award

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • How a captive manager or risk manager has implemented a specific innovation;
  • The positive outcomes it created, ideally backed by numbers;
  • The wider impact this innovation could have on the captive industry, the more ground-breaking the better

Captive Manager of the Year – More than $1bn Gross Written Premium

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Case studies demonstrating excellence in service to their captive owner clients backed by performance numbers ;
  • Growth in the captive manager itself, in both client numbers, written premium and revenue;
  • A ideas/innovations implemented to improve client satisfaction

Captive Manager of the year - Less than $1bn of Gross Written Premium

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Case studies demonstrating excellence in service to their captive owner clients backed by performance numbers ;
  • Growth in the captive manager itself, in both client numbers, written premium and revenue;
  • A ideas/innovations implemented to improve client satisfaction

Captive Risk Manager of the Year

Judges will be looking for evidence of

  • Excellence in risk management performance, backed by numbers;
  • Improvement in claims performance in one or multiple areas of the parent business;
  • Case studies demonstrating an innovative way improved risk management processes have been implemented at the parent organisation

Captive Service Professional of the Year

Judges will be looking for evidence of

  • Excellence in servicing a US captive insurance company, including details of how they have gone above and beyond to help a client or the industry as a whole;
  • Case studies of the proactive steps they have taken in the last year to produce positive outcomes;
  • Innovation and a willingness to take the industry to new places

Cell Captive Initiative

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Innovation/originality in an approach to cell captive solutions;
  • Case studies of how a cell captive initiative has overcome difficult regulatory and/or specific client challenges to deliver a successful outcome;
  • How a cell captive initiative has helped a captive to an improved financial performance for the client than would otherwise have been possible

Claims Specialist

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • How a claims handling firm or TPA has gone above and beyond to provide excellence in customer service;
  • A new initiative implemented that has substatntially improved the efficiency/speed with which claims can be dealt with;
  • Case studies where the claims handling firm/TPA has provided a quality service to handle a particularly challenging/specialist claim; numbers demonstrating growth in the firm itself

Collateral Specialist

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • How a collateral provider has been able to deliver a quality and efficient service;
  • Case studies of how a collateral provider has been able to support a client in a unique/challenging situation that required a specialised level of skill;
  • Numbers demonstrating growth in the firm itself, including the the increase in client numbers and retention of existing clients

ESG Captive Initiative

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • How an organisation has developed an initiative to improve the ESG performance of US captives owners;
  • Case studies of how the ESG has helped particular clients to adopt an ESG plan where otherwise they were unable to;
  • The successful outcomes that have come about, for both the company itself and the client, as a result of this initiative

Emerging Talent

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • How a young person working in the industry has displayed skill/talent above and beyond what would be expected

Employee Benefits Network

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Specialist knowledge in the field of employee benefits.
  • Case studies of how the EB network has delivered a client with an EB solution perfectly moulded to the specific needs of a business, and details of the challenges overcome to provide it.
  • Numbers demonstrating the growth in the EB network itself.

Fronting Partner

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • How an insurance company has provided a quality and efficient fronting service to US captives; case studies of how the fronter has developed a nuanced approach to fronting for a particular client, demonstrating an ability to adjust their proposition for specific client needs.
  • Numbers demonstrating growth in the fronters proposition, in terms of both client numbers and premium fronted

Insurtech Solution for Captives

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Growth in captive numbers;
  • Case studies of how staff at the international regulator engaged with a captive owner in either the formation of a new captive, or to overcome a persistent issue; 
  • A willingness to embrace new ideas and innovation to the benefit of captive owners;

Investment Specialist

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • How an asset manager or investment advisor has developed a specialist captive department to meet the captive industry's investment needs;
  • Case studies of the lengths investment specialist have gone to for a particular captive client to build them a well-constructed and balanced investment portfolio that produces impressive returns, backed by the financial numbers and comparisons to other rival's portfolios/industry standard;
  • Numbers demonstrating the general returns of their captive clients and detail on the work that goes into improving these returns; numbers demonstrating growth in the investment specialist itself, both in client numbers and values invested

Legacy Solutions

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Excellence in providing a restructuring or exit solution to a captive or other ART program;
  • Case studies of particular deals that have delivered successful outcomes to both the client and the legacy provider; how the legacy provider has been able to deliver a superior claims management service on the acquired legacy book

Legal Services

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • How a legal department or law firm has delivered excellence in service to a US client and their captives;
  • Case studies showing deep legal expertise in a specialist/niche area highly relevant to a particular client;
  • Growth in the legal firm/department itself, backed by numbers

Next Gen Initiative

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • How the organisation has put in place a NextGen initiative to usher in the next generation of talent;
  • Case studies demonstrating individuals that have recently come through the organisation's NextGen initiative, and their achievements;
  • A willingness to try new innovative methods for making more young people aware of captive insurance and its merits as a career

Software Solution

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Quality service from a company providing a software solution serving the US captive insurance market;
  • Case studies showing how the software meets a specific need from one or more captive clients can not be easily found/replicated elsewhere; how the software provider as utilized innovative and new technologies to deliver a unique and groundbreaking product to the industry; numbers demonstrating growth in the utilization of the software solution

Underwriting Solution of the Year

Judges will be looking for evidence of

  • How an insurance/reinsurance company has assisted a US-owned captive with a specialist underwriting solution;
  • Case studies of how the insurer/reinsurer has helped a client with a range of services to support the success of the captive; growth in the underwriter's captive proposition, backed by numbers

Categories & Criteria


 

Judges will be looking for evidence of: 

  • quality risk modelling, and details of the data behind actuarial decisions; 
  • case studies demonstrating the performance of US captive clients; 
  • numbers demonstrating growth/expansion in the actuarial firm itself;
  • how the firm has introduced a new innovation and/or technology to the benefit of clients
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • delivering clients a quick and efficient service in their tax reporting and/or audit requirements;
  • case studies where the firm have understood and responded well to a specific/unique set of requirements;
  • numbers demonstrating growth in the audit & accountancy firm
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • quality service when placing reinsurance for ART programmes;
  • case studies of where a broker has gone above and beyond in the level of service/support provided to a US captive client;
  • numbers demonstrating growth in the broker's captive services department
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • a specific project involving firms that produced an innovative captive solution to a problem, a solution that wouldn’t have been possible without the collaboration;
  • what each party did in the collaboration, looking for as close to an equal input as possible;
  • the positive outcomes of this collaboration, ideally backed up by numbers
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • deep knowledge of a specific/niche area of regulation/compliance;
  • case studies where a compliance specialist as demonstrated excellence, either in the level of niche knowledge or in how quickly they have responded to changes in regulation
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • expertise in risk management solutions;
  • case studies of the consultancy service provided to a US captive client and the positive outcomes this advice generated for the client;
  • customer satisfaction among captive clients;
  • growth in the captive consultancy itself
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • excellence in the response of domicile regulators to its captives' needs, either through regulation, or any other proactive initiatives;
  • numbers demonstrating growth in the domicile, in both number of captives and growth in premium;
  • innovations introduced that have had a clear positive outcome, ideally backed by numbers
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • excellence in the response of domicile regulators to its captives' needs, either through regulation, or any other proactive initiatives;
  • numbers demonstrating growth in the domicile, in both number of captives and growth in premium;
  • innovations introduced that have had a clear positive outcome, ideally backed by numbers
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • how a captive manager or risk manager has implemented a specific innovation;
  • the positive outcomes it created, ideally backed by numbers;
  • the wider impact this innovation could have on the captive industry, the more groundbreaking the better
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • case studies demonstrating excellence in service to their captive owner clients backed by performance numbers ;
  • growth in the captive manager itself, in both client numbers, written premium and revenue;
  • a ideas/innovations implemented to improve client satisfaction
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • case studies demonstrating excellence in service to their captive owner clients backed by performance numbers ;
  • growth in the captive manager itself, in both client numbers, written premium and revenue;
  • a ideas/innovations implemented to improve client satisfaction
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of

  • excellence in risk management performance, backed by numbers;
  • improvement in claims performance in one or multiple areas of the parent business;
  • case studies demonstrating an innovative way improved risk management processes have been implemented at the parent organisation
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of

  • excellence in servicing a US captive insurance company, including details of how they have gone above and beyond to help a client or the industry as a whole;
  • case studies of the proactive steps they have taken in the last year to produce positive outcomes;
  • innovation and a willingness to take the industry to new places
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • innovation/originality in an approach to cell captive solutions;
  • case studies of how a cell captive initiative has overcome difficult regulatory and/or specific client challenges to deliver a successful outcome;
  • how a cell captive initiative has helped a captive to an improved financial performance for the client than would otherwise have been possible 
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • how a claims handling firm or TPA has gone above and beyond to provide excellence in customer service;
  • a new initiative implemented that has substatntially improved the efficiency/speed with which claims can be dealt with;
  • case studies where the claims handling firm/TPA has provided a quality service to handle a particularly challenging/specialist claim; numbers demonstrating growth in the firm itself
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • how a collateral provider has been able to deliver a quality and efficient service;
  • case studies of how a collateral provider has been able to support a client in a unique/challenging situation that required a specialised level of skill; numbers demonstrating growth in the firm itself, including the the increase in client numbers and retention of existing clients
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • how an organisation has developed an initiative to improve the ESG performance of US captives owners;
  • case studies of how the ESG has helped particular clients to adopt an ESG plan where otherwise they were unable to; the successful outcomes that have come about, for both the company itself and the client, as a result of this initiative
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • how a young person working in the industry has displayed skill/talent above and beyond what would be expected
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • specialist knowledge in the field of employee benefits; -
  • case studies of how the EB network has delivered a client with an EB solution perfectly moulded to the specific needs of a business, and details of the challenges overcome to provide it; 
  • numbers demonstrating the growth in the EB network itself
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of: 

  • how an insurance company has provided a quality and efficient fronting service to US captives; case studies of how the fronter has developed a nuanced approach to fronting for a particular client, demonstrating an ability to adjust their proposition for specific client needs;
  • numbers demonstrating growth in the fronters proposition, in terms of both client numbers and premium fronted
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • growth in captive numbers;
  • case studies of how staff at the international regulator engaged with a captive owner in either the formation of a new captive, or to overcome a persistent issue; a
  • willingness to embrace new ideas and innovation to the benefit of captive owners
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • how an asset manager or investment advisor has developed a specialist captive department to meet the captive industry's investment needs;
  • case studies of the lengths investment specialist have gone to for a particular captive client to build them a well-constructed and balanced investment portfolio that produces impressive returns, backed by the financial numbers and comparisons to other rival's portfolios/industry standard;
  • numbers demonstrating the general returns of their captive clients and detail on the work that goes into improving these returns; numbers demonstrating growth in the investment specialist itself, both in client numbers and values invested
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of: 

  • excellence in providing a restructuring or exit solution to a captive or other ART program; 
  • case studies of particular deals that have delivered successful outcomes to both the client and the legacy provider; how the legacy provider has been able to deliver a superior claims management service on the acquired legacy book
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • how a legal department or law firm has delivered excellence in service to a US client and their captives;
  • case studies showing deep legal expertise in a specialist/niche area highly relevant to a particular client;
  • growth in the legal firm/department itself, backed by numbers
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • how the organisation has put in place a NextGen initiative to usher in the next generation of talent; 
  • case studies demonstrating individuals that have recently come through the organisation's NextGen initiative, and their achievements; 
  • a willingness to try new innovative methods for making more young people aware of captive insurance and its merits as a career
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • quality service from a company providing a software solution serving the US captive insurance market;
  • case studies showing how the software meets a specific need from one or more captive clients can not be easily found/replicated elsewhere; how the software provider as utilized innovative and new technologies to deliver a unique and groundbreaking product to the industry; numbers demonstrating growth in the utilization of the software solution
This item is not available

Judges will be looking for evidence of

  • how an insurance/reinsurance company has assisted a US-owned captive with a specialist underwriting solution; 
  • case studies of how the insurer/reinsurer has helped a client with a range of services to support the success of the captive; growth in the underwriter's captive proposition, backed by numbers
This item is not available