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Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile Social mores, advertising models and even insurance actuarial calculations are all being influenced by FB. As founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg topped the Agenda Setters list in 2007 after the social network... [08 Oct 2009]
Insurer Cuts Modeling Time by Up to 99 Percent With High-Performance Computing
White Paper Western & Southern 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 changed. Ultimately, the... [27 Feb 2009]
Insurance Company Determines Best Solution Through Technology Center Tests
White Paper Western & Southern Financial Group wanted to upgrade its actuarial modeling solution to take advantage of high-performance computing capabilities on the Windows operating system, but it didn't know which of two... [27 Feb 2009]
Taking Risk Out of Actuarial Spreadsheets
White Paper The flexibility and familiarity of the Excel spreadsheet makes it the chosen tool of actuaries for creating complex risk models that drive premium rates and revenues for all insurance operations. However, those vital spreadsheets also... [30 Jan 2009]
Building One of the World's Largest Windows-Based HPC Clusters
White Paper Department of Defense, Gallup, Microsoft, and the Milliman actuarial firm, and provides a major IT resource for UNO faculty and students as well as research scientists from around the United States. Over a year ago, Dell... [01 Jan 2009]
Firm Cuts Insurers' Modeling Time Nearly 95 Percent With High-Performance Solutions
White Paper IHA Consultants, a small IT consultancy, helps healthcare and property/casualty insurers by providing Web-based stochastic solutions for advanced actuarial modeling. The company's Stochastic Actuarial... [03 Dec 2008]
Actuary Speeds Calculations by Factor of 10 With Windows-Based HPC Cluster
White Paper Mercer, a global pension consulting firm, developed a new actuarial valuation system that required a sharp increase in numerical computations. By adopting High-Performance Computing (HPC) with Windows Compute Cluster... [07 Nov 2008]
Reducing Total Cost of Ownership With a Corporate Reporting System for a Global Insurance Company
White Paper Apart from managing interfaces 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 which were inherent... [28 Mar 2008]
IBM rolls out grids for big business
News RBC Insurance is using a grid with Intel-based servers from IBM and Platform Computing software to improve a program involved with actuarial information - the statistics that determine risks and insurance rates. [28 Apr 2003]
Pension shortfalls: BT and Vodafone named
News A BT spokesman said: "It's an actuarial problem, to do with predictions of how long people live. Seventeen of the nation's largest companies don't have enough money to pay the pensions they've promised their workers. [15 Aug 2001]
