Knowledge Center

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PUBLICATIONS

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Funding Employee Benefits: A Risk Manager's Guide - Outlines the advantages to funding employee benefits in a captive arrangement and provides guidelines on how to structure this type of program.
Pension Research White Paper - Spring's pension research examines ways to use captive products to reduce funding and accounting volatility associated with pension plans, as well as avoid the problem of trapped assets and the expense of plan termination.
Healthcare Captive Opportunities White Paper - Outlines significant opportunities for healthcare captives and provides guidelines on how to implement these options. In addition to enhanced capital utilization, the knock-on benefits of adopting one or more of these strategies can be significant. They include a reduction of loss volatility through increased portfolio diversity, an increase in the captive's return on invested capital (ROIC), and lower risk transfer premiums.

CASE STUDIES
Our client work does not occur in silos – we recognize that sophisticated organizations demand a fully integrated approach to solving their challenges. Our clients represent a diverse group of industries and come to us from all over the globe. Below are case examples of our work. They illustrate the value created, problem solving and innovative solutions implemented to meet and satisfy the needs of our clients.

SPRING'S 2010, 2011 AND 2012 PRESENTATIONS
Below is a list of presentations our experts have given at industry leading conferences and events. If you are interested in learning more about the topic and to receive the presentation please contact us.

SURVEYS
Our work is backed by leading industry research.  Identifying current “best practices” and “best-in-class” Future State organizations through benchmarking surveys illustrates one method of how Spring helps our clients meet current challenges and, more importantly, position clients for future growth and expanded market share. Spring routinely designs and conducts surveys on the Integrated Disability, Absence and Health Management and also in the voluntary marketplace. Many of the major players in these services areas are represented in these studies, either as sponsors or participants. If you are interested in learning more about our surveys, please contact us.

SPRING VIEW
Below is a list of our quarterly newsletter the Spring View. Here you can find articles authored by our consultants on topics that are affecting our industry. Click here to sign up for our newsletter.

WEBCASTS
An insight to our expert knowledge on specific topics, please click below to register and view the webcasts.
Captives for Healthcare Reform and Writing Employee Benefits in a Captive - A webcast to enhance your captive knowledge and expand on innovative ways to manage your risk.
Enhancing Capital Management Through a Captive - A webcast that introduces a new way to utilize a captive's underemployed capital.

South Korea Springhill Group - journals

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China has been quietly and gently pressuring North Korea to scrap plans for a third nuclear test, said two sources with knowledge of closed-door discussions between the countries, but there is no indication how Pyongyang will react.
If North Korea goes ahead with the test, China would consider taking some retaliatory steps, but they would not be substantive, a source with ties to Pyongyang and Beijing said.
North Korea has almost completed preparations for the test, Reuters had reported in late April, a step that would further isolate the impoverished state after last month’s failed rocket launch that the United States says was a ballistic missile test.
“China is unhappy … and urged North Korea not to conduct a nuclear test near Changbai Mountain,” said the source, who declined to be identified.
China feared a radiation leak and damage to the environment from a blast, the source added. “China also complained about the environmental damage to the area after the first two tests.”
When North Korea conducted nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, it caused environmental damage to the mountain straddling the border with China. North Korea ceded part of the mountain to China in 1963.



Springhill Group Home : Facebook Buys 650 AOL Patents
http://newscenter.springhillgrouphome.com/2012/05/springhill-group-home-facebook-buys-650-aol-patents/

Facebook is set to pay Microsoft USD 550 million for 650 patents recently auctioned by AOL in its effort to boost its IP for the looming litigation against Yahoo.

Under pressure from its stockholders to make changes to prevent further revenue fall, AOL was obliged to sell and license over 800 patents to Microsoft on April 9. It would retain over 300 applications and patents after the auction.

Aside from the 800 patents bought by Microsoft, AOL will also give them license to 300 patents it has retained for a tag of USD 1.056 billion. Thus, Microsoft ultimately acquired 925 AOL patent applications and patents, 650 of which will go to Facebook. The 2 firms has also agreed to license their patent holdings to each other.