We are pleased to announce that Ken Watson has joined Elucidor as Principal. Ken is a leading rehabilitation and turnaround manager. He has steered a number of life insurance, property and casualty insurance and other companies through turnaround and administration. Ken’s past successes include managing the largest and most successful life insurance rehabilitation in U.S. …
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 …
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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The attached opinion piece by Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post references an article by David H. Autor of MIT. The article describes some of the problems of Social Security’s Disability Program and the failure of past reforms, and reviews three different proposals that attempt to mitigate the problems.
The New York Times has an extensive article on how companies are exploiting big data analytics to create competitive advantages. The key take away from the article is: In business, economics and other fields … decisions will increasingly be based on data and analysis rather than on experience and intuition. We can start being a lot …
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.
Here is a classic Youtube video on the history of life expectancies throughout the world :
We are pleased to announce that Perry Wiseblatt has joined Elucidor as Principal. Perry was most recently a Senior Vice President at Ability Resources Inc., where he was responsible for underwriting, pricing and structuring Long Term Care transactions. He previously worked at Lotter Actuarial Partners where he provided services in M&A, reinsurance, insurance security analysis, …
We are proud to announce the launch of the Elucidor Website. Elucidor is a specialist actuarial consulting company that focuses on bringing advanced analytics to solving difficult insurance-related problems. We hope you enjoy this website and welcome your feedback at info@elucidor.com.
