Month: February 2012

Lotter Actuarial Partners is now Elucidor

In 1994, I formed Lotter Actuarial Partners, Inc., an actuarial consulting firm specializing in buy-side insurance company appraisals, mortality science and critical illness product design and underwriting. Over the ensuing years, Lotter Actuarial Partners was fortunate to attract talented and creative actuaries, systems analysts, programmers, medical doctors, underwriters and other professionals who brought additional expertise …

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Elucidor can Analyze your Critical Illness Experience

Elucidor can help you get the most out of your Critical Illness experience data.  Because Critical Illness insurance is such a new product, there is very little data available to price benefits.  Using Elucidor’s proprietary predictive modeling engine, DeepInsight!, it is possible to determine within a few short years of writing new Critical Illness business …

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Calstrs Reduces Assumed Rate of Return

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (Calstrs), the second largest public pension fund in the US, reduced its assumed rate of return from 7.75% to 7.5%.  Calstrs is a $145 billion fund. According to Bloomberg, only 3 of the 11 U.S. pension funds with assets of more than $50 billion have reduced their assumptions since 2007-08.