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SPARTA Actuarial: The Silent Service Surfaces

23 Jun 2010: The prolonged soft market and the macro economic environment in which it has endured have conspired to create tremendous challenges for growth and profitability objectives in the property and casualty insurance industry.

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SPARTA's "Field of Dreams" Strategy: Build It and They Will Come

29 Mar 2010: SPARTA Insurance had the unique opportunity as a start up company to build a policy administration infrastructure specifically designed to meet the needs of the insurance program marketplace. Senior Vice President, Enrico Ferrante, reflects on the key influences.

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Policy Administration Systems: Building Value Over Time

28 Mar 2010: Licensing, implementing and deploying a new policy administration system is often the biggest, most complex and most costly technology initiative that a property/casualty insurer can undertake. This report describes the challenges an insurer faces in mastering the complexities of a new modern policy administration system, and using such a system's capabilities to achieve its corporate objectives.

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A Competitive Advantage In Any Market Cycle

01 Dec 2009: Captives and similar alternative risk transfer structures have proven to be resilient and effective solutions that provide a competitive advantage to their owners and insured members in any cycle... SPARTA's Chief Marketing Officer, Brian First, outlines the captive competitive edge in this article published in Cayman Captive magazine (December 2009).

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Creditworthiness: Renewing An Old Reality

01 Oct 2009: The recent financial problems caused by the historic and unsustainable levels of American debt were made possible by the advent of easy credit and the voracious appetite for goods and services by the American consumer...See the full article by SPARTA's Chief Credit Officer, Scott McKay, as it appeared in Captive Insurance Company Reports (October 2009).

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