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REPRESENTATIVE PORTFOLIO COMPANIES
Century Capital Management has a history of partnering with innovative people within the insurance and related service industries to capitalize on the opportunities that arise over time. Representative Century Capital private investments, shown below, were generated through educated risk taking based upon analysis of the impact that significant events would have on the markets and industries in which the firm invests.
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Ascension Insurance Holdings, LLC
Location: Kansas City, Mo
Investment Year: 2007
Status:Active
www.ascensionins.com
Description: Ascension Insurance Holdings, LLC is an acquisition vehicle focusing on acquiring small and middle market commercial property-casualty and employee benefits insurance brokers in North America. During the first half of 2008 Ascension closed on its first three investments Bryant Wharton & Associates, Pan American Underwriters, and Employers Mutual, Inc.
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Asset Allocation & Management Company, LLC
Location: Chicago, IL
Investment Year: 2003
Status: Exited 2007
www.aamcompany.com
Description: Asset Allocation & Management specializes in providing fixed income investment management services for insurance companies and is skilled at developing and implementing customized investment strategies designed to meet a client’s specific investment objectives and business needs.
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Alliant Insurance Services
Location: Newport Beach, CA
Investment Year: 2005
Status:
Exited 2007
www.alliantinsurance.com
Description: Alliant Insurance is the second largest privately held insurance broker in the U.S. Alliant focuses on the distribution of specialty-oriented products with leading market positions among public entities, Indian Nations, law firms and other industry groups.
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Catalina Holdings (Bermuda), Limited
Location: Bermuda
Investment Year: 2007
Status:Active
www.catalinare.com
Description: Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Limited is a Bermuda-based holding company that is licensed as a Class IV reinsurance company. Catalina acquires and administers the run-off of property-casualty insurance companies around the world but primarily in Bermuda, U.K., Europe, Australia and the United States. The Company seeks to build and run- off a diversified portfolio of entities and use profits from the various run-offs to fund additional run-off acquisitions.
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Cathedral Capital, PLC
Location: London, England
Investment Year: 2002
Status: Exited 2006
www.cathedralcapital.com
Description: Cathedral Capital plc which manages Lloyd’s Syndicate 2010 is a leading provider in the London market of property and aviation treaty reinsurance, direct and facultative property insurance and reinsurance and contingency insurance. This investment was exited in 2006 through a sale to another private equity firm.
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Concentra Operating Corp.
(formerly National Healthcare Resources, Inc.)
Location: Dallas, TX
Year of Investment: 1998
Status: Active
www.concentra.com
Description: National Healthcare Resources, Inc., acquired by Concentra, was a provider of medical cost containment services to the automobile, workers' compensation and group health insurance markets. NHR's services include independent medical exams, telephonic and field case management, bill review, and access to a proprietary PPO network.
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Cyrus Reinsurance Holdings, Ltd.
Location: Hamilton, Bermuda
Investment Year: 2005
Status: Active
Description: Cyrus Reinsurance Holdings, Ltd. is a Cayman based reinsurance vehicle that provides retrocessional coverage in the property catastrophe market. The company sources business through a quota share agreement with XL Re Ltd. and XL Re Europe.
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DP MANN Holdings Limited
Location: London, England
Investment Year: 1996
Status: Exited 1998
Description: DP Mann Underwriting Agency Limited managed Syndicate 435, which was composed of five distinct teams. The holding company was formed for the purpose of owning both the managing agency and the corporate name. The managing agency was established in 1983 and through Syndicate 435 has managed a growing and diverse mix of non-marine businesses at Lloyd’s. DP MANN was acquired by General and Cologne Re in 1998.
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eReinsure, Inc.
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Investment Year: 2003
Status: Active
www.ereinsure.com
Description: eReinsure was formed to meet the needs of the facultative reinsurance market from a buyer’s perspective. The company provides a unique solution allowing participants to control and monitor their facultative business efficiently.
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Fidelity National Information Systems
(formerly Vista Information Systems)
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Investment Year: 1999
Status: Exited 2002
Description: Fidelity National Information Systems (formerly Vista Information Systems) is an Internet-based real estate risk information provider to consumers, real estate agents, and the environmental engineering, home insurance, banking and legal industries. The Company provides address-based hazard information to help clients determine the ability to finance the desirability, insurability and value of properties anywhere in the nation via the web. The Company merged with Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE:FNF) in 2002.
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Forethought Financial Group
Location: Batesville, IN
Investment Year: 2004
Status: Active
www.forethought.com
Description: Forethought serves the United States' funeral planning professionals with marketing support for Forethought funeral plans funded by life insurance. This specialized funeral-planning product is offered through funeral homes.
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Galtney Group, Inc.
Location: Houston, TX
Investment Year: 1999
Status: Exited 2001
Description: Galtney was a leading insurance broker specializing in professional liability and medical malpractice insurance coverage. At the time of investment, the company ranked as the 24 largest insurance brokers in the U.S. and one of the most productive as measured by revenues per employee. The Company was acquired by Arthur J. Gallagher in 2001.
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InSystems Technologies, Inc.
Location: Markham, Ontario
Investment Year: 2000
Status: Exited 2002
Description: InSystems is a leader in providing e-business solutions to the global insurance industry. InSystems enables insurance companies to use the Internet to streamline product lifecycle and manage business critical relationships through its document management and relationship management software solutions. Insystems was sold to Sandard Register Company.
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Integro Ltd.
Location: Greenwich, CT
Investment Year: 2005
Status: Active
www.integrogroup.com
Description: Integro is an insurance brokerage and risk management firm dedicated to serving the complex insurance and risk management needs of large and/or complex institutional risks. The Company has offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Bermuda, Toronto, Montreal, London and Stockholm.
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Jones DesLauriers Group of Companies, Inc.
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Investment Year: 2008
Status: Active
www.jdimi.com
Description: Jones DesLauriers ranks as one of the largest independently-owned insurance brokerage firms in Canada. The firm employs approximately 175 individuals, services over 15,000 customers and distributes a wide array of both commercial and personal insurance products.
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Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd.
Location: Hamilton, Bermuda
Investment Year: 2001
Status: Exited 2005
Description: Montpelier Reinsurance Ltd., was formed to capitalize on the attractive market opportunities in the global reinsurance and insurance markets. MRH is focused on lines of business that provide an opportunity to achieve superior returns on capital including property catastrophe reinsurance, commercial property insurance and reinsurance, and property retrocession reinsurance. In 2002 Montpelier successfully completed an initial public offering. This investment was exited through sales and distributions of freely tradeable common stock.
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Thompson Insurance Enterprises, LLC ("Thomco")
Location: Kennesaw, GA
Investment Year: 2007
Status: Active
www3.thomcoins.com/index.cfm
Description: THOMCO is a Program Administrator for 14 national target market programs. THOMCO's programs typically involve a customized package of coverages. Nationally, THOMCO is best known in the Child Care arena as the largest writer of Child Care exposures in the country and is also well known in the industry for having a leading product in the Senior Living, Medical Transportation, Pest Control, Social Service, and Tanning Salon markets.
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Wellington Management plc
Location: London, England
Investment Year: 1995
Status: Exited 1996
Description: Incorporated in 1994, Wellington's principal activity is insurance and reinsurance underwriting in the Lloyd’s insurance market. Wellington’s principal operating subsidiary, Wellington Underwriting Agencies Limited, has been managing Lloyd’s syndicates since 1986, and was acquired by Wellington in 1996, when Wellington converted from investment company to trading company status.
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Wilton Life Re Holdings
Location: Wilton, CT
Investment Year: 2005
Status: Active
www.wiltonre.com
Description: Wilton Re was formed in late 2004 as a Bermuda domiciled life reinsurance group with a life reinsurance subsidiary in the U.S. The business strategy is to build a life reinsurance company that engages in two basic activities: (a) new life reinsurance and (b) run-off business administration.
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