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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>🗂️ '''Capital and planning group (CPG)''' is a specialized internal function within an [[Definition:Insurance carrier | insurance]] or [[Definition:Reinsurance | reinsurance]] organization responsible for strategic capital allocation, financial planning, and ensuring that the company's capital structure supports its [[Definition:Underwriting | underwriting]] ambitions and risk appetite. While the exact title varies across companies, the CPG function sits at the intersection of finance, [[Definition:Actuarial science | actuarial]], and executive strategy, translating high-level business goals into concrete capital deployment decisions.<br />
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🔧 A typical CPG analyzes the company's current [[Definition:Capital adequacy (insurance) | capital position]] against projected needs across multiple planning horizons — quarterly, annual, and multi-year. The group models scenarios including [[Definition:Catastrophe loss | catastrophe losses]], adverse [[Definition:Reserve development | reserve development]], changes in [[Definition:Reinsurance | reinsurance]] costs, and shifts in [[Definition:Investment portfolio | investment portfolio]] performance to determine how much capital is available for new [[Definition:Line of business | lines of business]], organic growth, or [[Definition:Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) | acquisitions]]. It also coordinates with [[Definition:Rating agency | rating agencies]] and [[Definition:Regulatory authority | regulators]] to ensure that planned capital actions — such as dividend payments to a parent company, share buybacks, or new debt issuance — will not threaten the insurer's [[Definition:Financial strength rating | financial strength rating]] or [[Definition:Risk-based capital (RBC) | risk-based capital]] ratios. In large groups with multiple legal entities, the CPG optimizes capital across subsidiaries, determining where [[Definition:Surplus | surplus]] is most efficiently deployed.<br />
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📐 The strategic weight of the CPG function has grown as the insurance industry faces increasingly complex capital dynamics. The rise of [[Definition:Insurance-linked security (ILS) | insurance-linked securities]], [[Definition:Catastrophe bond | catastrophe bonds]], and [[Definition:Sidecar (reinsurance) | sidecars]] means capital planning teams must evaluate alternative capital structures alongside traditional equity and debt. [[Definition:Private equity | Private equity]] ownership of insurance platforms has further elevated the importance of rigorous capital planning, since PE sponsors demand disciplined return-on-equity targets and clear capital recycling strategies. For any insurance organization — whether a legacy carrier or an [[Definition:Insurtech | insurtech]]-backed startup — the CPG function ensures that growth aspirations are grounded in financial reality and that the business remains resilient through market cycles.<br />
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'''Related concepts:'''<br />
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* [[Definition:Capital adequacy (insurance)]]<br />
* [[Definition:Risk-based capital (RBC)]]<br />
* [[Definition:Enterprise risk management (ERM)]]<br />
* [[Definition:Asset-liability management (ALM)]]<br />
* [[Definition:Financial strength rating]]<br />
* [[Definition:Surplus]]<br />
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