In the past century, the captives market has evolved to become an integral part of a company's risk financing strategy, allowing flexibility to adjust when evaluating the best use of capital and that of the insurers.

Marsh's Captive Solutions Practice has developed the first-ever global study of captive usage to analyze the general market, further studying the industry and region-specific use so that companies have a resource to assist with captive formation.

This comprehensive study, with data collected from 900 owned captives representing 33% of the global market, provides readers with a background to captive formation, the top domiciles, profiles of industries and companies that use captives and types of business underwritten. The report also evaluates regional and industry exposures, structures and limits, and the levels of funding supported by risk assumptions.

The Captives Benchmarking Study reveals that captives have continued to expand both in terms of absolute numbers and the industries that use them. The number of domiciles that have passed some form of captive legislation grows yearly and increasingly the differentiation between many of the domiciles diminishes.

As the insurance and reinsurance markets have changed over the past 40 years, one of the few constants has been the steady development of captive growth. As is evident from the report, captives have been developing through this period in order to position themselves as the market goes through its increasingly shortened and frequent "hard" and "soft" cycles. It is clear that captives are here to stay and optimising their role is vital.

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