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pooling is an important financial vehicle used by employee benefits
managers and risk managers worldwide to reduce the escalating
costs of insurance and to coordinate employee benefits plans
within their organizations. The International Group Program
(IGP) is the leader in multinational pooling with over 800 clients.
IGP offers a broad range of products to ensure that each
multinational corporation's pooling package accommodates its
specific needs and achieves maximum savings.
The savings a corporation has earned through pooling are
determined on an annual basis by netting out claims, changes
in reserves, commissions, taxes, and other expenses from the
worldwide premiums paid plus interest credits. The remainder
is paid to the multinational corporation in the form of an
international dividend. Many of IGP's clients have had a significant
portion of premium returned to them as international dividends
at year-end through the pooling of their international employee
benefits plans.
The IGP accounting system preserves all of the benefits of
dealing with a prominent national insurance company whose
expertise focuses on the local market. In addition, IGP provides
advantages at the international level.
Multinational pooling works as follows: a First
Stage Accounting reflects the experience of a participating
insurance policy in a given country. By Second
Stage Accounting or "pooling" policies that a company
provides in several countries, savings are generated through
economies of scale and efficiencies in administration and
reporting.
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