“The small captive’s growth is a natural continutation of the captive market’s expanding to the mid market from one dominated by the Fortune 500 companies,” says Clete Thompson, VP for Capstone Associated Services, Ltd..
For Captive Insurance Planning (ICIP), “Captive insurers have been around for decades and are no longer considered an unusual or innovative planning tool. An estimated 90% plus of Fortune 500 companies already utilize captives, and a significant number of U.S. states now license captive insurers,” reports Thompson.
As more middle market companies incorporate alternative risk planning into their operations, the result has been an uptick in formations of small captives and the U.S. domiciles that regulate their operation. For example Delaware, a top 10 U.S. domicile for captive formations, breached the 100 captive mark in 2011, with most new formations being Section 831(b) captives. As reported in Captive Review’s 2011 survey of leading captive domiciles, “Many of the emerging domiciles are growing off the back of 831(b) captives.”
Capstone Associated Services, Ltd. is among the top sponsors of Section 831(b) captives in the nation and is among the top two captive sponsors in both Delaware and Anguilla. Capstone continues to realize continued growth among its middle market clientele. “Growth in small captives for us is driven by the middle market which we serve,” says Stewart A. Feldman, CEO and General Counsel for Capstone. “In today’s challenging economy, a captive insurance company offers middle market businesses multiple benefits in protecting against loss contingencies.” Captives provide part to the seamless integration of its offices in both Delaware and the British West Indies with our affiliated tax and corporate law firm based in Houston.