Captive Insurance Management
Professional management companies forming, licensing, and administering captive insurance entities that allow corporations to self-insure risks through their own insurance subsidiaries.
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Overview
Captive Insurance Management covers the firms that form, license, and administer captive insurance entities, which let corporations self-insure risks through their own insurance subsidiaries. Management companies (Marsh, Aon, and specialist captive managers) handle formation, domicile selection, compliance, and administration.
Captive formation has grown as companies seek control over risk financing, access to reinsurance, and tax and capital efficiency, especially amid hard commercial-insurance markets. It is a specialized, advisory- and administration-led niche that grows when traditional insurance is expensive.
Market snapshot
No discrete Census NAICS code — captive management sits within insurance-related activities (524298) and management services, so the segment is not separately sized here.
Business model & economics
Revenue model
Formation, management, and administration fees
Key economics
- Recurring revenue
- High
- EBITDA margin
- 20–30%
- Capex intensity
- Low
recurring captive-management mandates
Characteristics
- Companies self-insure through owned captive subsidiaries.
- Growth accelerates when commercial insurance is expensive.
- Advisory- and administration-led recurring revenue.
M&A deal context
Who’s acquiring
- Captive-management firms
- Insurance-services consolidators
- PE-backed platforms
What’s driving deals
- Captive formation growth in hard markets.
- Demand for risk-financing control and efficiency.
- Recurring management-mandate economics.
Verticals in this segment
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