Collins is the world's leading broker of agricultural reinsurance. Each year, Collins introduces more than $2 billion in crop insurance risk to leading global reinsurance companies - approximately 70 percent of the U.S. crop reinsurance market.

This leadership is built on:

• Knowledge and expertise developed since our founding in 1987;
• The most sophisticated crop modeling capabilities in the business;
• Our active leadership in the agricultural reinsurance industry; and
• Longstanding relationships with both clients and reinsurers.

Our dominance has enabled us to continually reinvest in our people and our technology.

The genius of Collins crop modeling: Before Collins, many leading reinsurers shied away from agricultural business. The lack of credible modeling capabilities confirmed their perception that agricultural business was "esoteric" and inconsistent with other lines of reinsurance.

Using our modeling expertise, plus the knowledge of our people, Collins was able to present this class to reinsurers in a form consistent with other property reinsurance. We demonstrated that it was a good fit for reinsurers specializing in property catastrophe excess-of-loss business. Our data and analyses brought transparency and a comfort level to those reinsurers; we introduced many of the world's leading reinsurance companies to the agricultural market. The results included stable pricing, increased capacity and better support for crop insurers.

Recognized industry leadership: Collins is often been called upon to share its knowledge and expertise with the wider marketplace. We frequently participate in U.S and Canadian crop industry conferences. We introduced senior officials of the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) to key reinsurers in North America, London and continental Europe.

Building strong client relationships: Collins continually works to expand and improve its services to agricultural reinsurance clients. We were the first to build a multiple peril crop insurance probabilistic model that brought the yield and commodity price-related coverages together. In addition to mainstream pro rata and stop-loss programs, we've placed product-specific programs, industry loss warranty programs, and programs that reduced capital allocations or protected profit center results. We also developed location-specific protections, grain cooperative programs and farm owners and related programs.