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In Memoriam: Karen Cutts, Managing Editor of the Risk Retention Reporter, dies of cancer.

Peace to Karen's memory. We will miss her.

The Cutts family encourages all who wish to celebrate Karen’s memory to join the fight against pancreatic cancer by making a donation to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (www.pancan.org).

During the month of January we were pleased to renew sponsorships for two long-time Gold members -- the Spring Consulting Group and the AMS Group. Here's a little info about how each of these Featured Sponsors whose icons appear on the right side of this page can assist your ART facility:

Spring Consulting Group, LLC, based in Boston, provides employee benefit consulting, brokerage and strategic advice to insurance and financial services organizations, employers and their captive insurance companies. Spring’s executives have extensive industry and consulting expertise in a variety of areas including healthcare, disability & absence management, retirement services, life insurance program integration, benefit funding alternatives and implementation support.

We'll cross the pond to take a look at our second featured sponsor for today -- the AMS Group. Since its inception in 1982, the AMS Group has been providing a wide range of fiduciary services of the highest standard from company formations, trustee and corporate services (including management and administration services) through to captive insurance management and registration as well as a range of mutual fund services. The AMS Group offers regional offices around the globe in order to meet the needs of their clients. Strategically located in London and Hong Kong as well as Nevis and the BVI, you are able to contact them at a time most convenient to you.

For quick contact information, find Spring Consulting, AMS and other fine service providers in the Captive Yellow Pages.

Member Press Release: Zurich's Z Zurich Foundation supports the ILO to improve microinsurance's efficiency and scale.

[Editor's note: While not specifically captive-related, we wanted to bring this to you because of its broader interest. Multiple links are included.]

The Georgia Captive Insurance Association (GCIA) is by no means a new association, but their website is brand spanking new, and helpful too! See the Association Center page for the link to the GCIA website, and many more.

We have also updated the Domicile Showcase page with links to a much better copy of the Georgia Regulations for Captives and we also added an Application for a Captive Insurance Company in the State of Georgia, both courtesy of the GCIA.

BREAKING DOMICILE NEWS: Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart Licenses World’s First Serial Captive Insurance Company.

Captive.com has learned that the application for this serial entity captive was received in Delaware in mid-December. This fast turnaround for a complex structure is impressive, and speaks well for both the State of Delaware, and for Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS), the captive's manager. Congratulations to all!

Member News: Caledonian Insurance Services appointed captive manager of Concordis Insurance SPC in the Cayman Islands.

It's a good day indeed! Congratulations to Caledonian Insurance Services -- another member company -- on their continued success!

Breaking Member News: Artex Acquires Champlain Captive Management.

Congratulations and best wishes to Artex and Champlain Captive Management -- both friends and members at captive.com -- for much success in 2010 and beyond!

The January issue of the Captive Insurance Company Reports starts 2010 off right by crunching commercial insurance and captive numbers from 2009, and taking a look at where these trends might be leading our industry in 2010. Follow this link to read the January CICR highlights on the Captive Headlines page in the News/Library.

From that page, you will also find a sample issue of CICR to browse, and we make it easy for you to order this mission-critical publication from IRMI on captive.com's secure server.

Captive.com is excited that good news continues to pour in from most domiciles. We look forward to a very exciting 2010.

The Captive Headlines page has just been updated with the January Risk Retention Reporter headlines. This month's lead story is entitled, "Risk Retention Marketplace Poised for Rebound in 2010." Music to our ears! What else is in this issue? Find out here.

If you like what you see, we make it easy for you to order this and numerous other publications in the captive.com store.