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Taking Risk Out of  Actuarial  Spreadsheets

Taking Risk Out of Actuarial Spreadsheets

The flexibility and familiarity of the Excel spreadsheet makes it the chosen tool of actuaries for creating complex risk Read more

Jan 30, 2009

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Insurance Company Determines Best Solution Through Technology Center Tests

Insurance Company Determines Best Solution Through Technology Center Tests

Western & Southern Financial Group wanted to upgrade its actuarial modeling solution to take advantage of high-performance computing capabilities on the... Read more

Feb 27, 2009

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Insurer Cuts Modeling Time by Up to 99 Percent With High-Performance Computing

Insurer Cuts Modeling Time by Up to 99 Percent With High-Performance Computing

...Financial Group faced the challenge of running ever larger and more complex actuarial models as its number of policyholders and products grew and regulatory requirements... Read more

Feb 27, 2009

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Actuary Speeds Calculations by Factor of 10 With Windows-Based HPC Cluster

Actuary Speeds Calculations by Factor of 10 With Windows-Based HPC Cluster

Mercer, a global pension consulting firm, developed a new actuarial valuation system that required a sharp increase in numerical computations. By adopting... Read more

Nov 7, 2008

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Reducing Total Cost of Ownership With a Corporate Reporting System for a Global Insurance Company

Reducing Total Cost of Ownership With a Corporate Reporting System for a Global Insurance Company

...with multiple applications such as GL, AP/AR, Comptroller and Regulatory, and Actuarial, the design and implementation of a solution posed several challenges, many of... Read more

Mar 28, 2008

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Building One of the World's Largest Windows-Based HPC Clusters

Building One of the World's Largest Windows-Based HPC Clusters

...from the U.S. Department of Defense, Gallup, Microsoft, and the Milliman actuarial firm, and provides a major IT resource for UNO faculty and students... Read more

Jan 1, 2009

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Firm Cuts Insurers' Modeling Time Nearly 95 Percent With High-Performance Solutions

Firm Cuts Insurers' Modeling Time Nearly 95 Percent With High-Performance Solutions

...and property/casualty insurers by providing Web-based stochastic solutions for advanced actuarial modeling. The company's Stochastic Actuarial Reserve and Trend Model solutions use... Read more

Dec 3, 2008

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How to insure your IT

How to insure your IT

Analysis: It's becoming more and more common Read more

Jul 17, 2007

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White Paper on Data Quality

White Paper on Data Quality

...members. The paper presents a discussion of data quality standards applicable to actuarial and data management disciplines in companies, third party administrators, consultants, and any... Read more

Feb 6, 2007

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IBM rolls out grids for big business

IBM rolls out grids for big business

...from IBM and Platform Computing software to improve a program involved with actuarial information - the statistics that determine risks and insurance rates. Kansei's grid... Read more

Apr 28, 2003