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      • KCC Releases WindfieldBuilder Hurricane Track and Wind Spread Tool
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 20, 2013
        Already used by top ten P&C carriers and reinsurers, the tool has been made generally available to enable customers to create realistic footprints for hurricanes both before and after landfall and to conduct detailed claims analyses using their own loss experience.
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      • 4 Ways Driverless Cars Are Poised to Shake up InsuranceSlideshow Article
        By Nathan Golia | May 17, 2013
        Driverless cars are closer to reality than you think. Here are some impacts they might have on the insurance industry.
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      • Agile Financial Management: Re-visioning the Budget Process
        By Peter Witham, UNIT4 Business Software | May 15, 2013
        To create an accurate budget you need visibility into a single set of data and the ability to see clear across your organization – regardless of geographic locations, currencies, and other barriers.
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      • Selective Announces Executive Promotions in Claims and IT
        By Kathy Burger | May 13, 2013
        Among a roster of recent appointments and promotions announced by Selective Insurance were George Neale as SVP, Chief Claims Officer, and John Bresney as SVP, Application Delivery Services.
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      • Information as a Game Changer: Actuarial Analytics — Score Keeping, or Trusted Advice?
        By Paul Delbridge, Mark Purowitz, Punita Gandhi and Caitlin Marcoux, PwC | May 10, 2013
        There is a great opportunity to more effectively utilize actuaries’ advanced analytics and modelling expertise, and thereby change actuaries’ role from scorekeeping to one in which they create a significant, information-driven competitive advantage for the organization.
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      • RMS Debuts the RMS (one) Real-Time Exposure and Risk Management Environment
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 09, 2013
        The new environment will provide intuitive, enterprise-wide access to real-time risk intelligence, enabling decision-makers at every level of the organization - from risk analysts to the CEO - the opportunity to ask questions and get answers in real time, according to the vendor.
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      • 6 Best Practices for Implementing Finance Software
        By Kathy Burger | May 07, 2013
        UNIT4 Business Software offers guidelines for implementing finance accounting software to support growth.
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      • New Novarica Analyst From CIO Side
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 02, 2013
        In his new role as analyst, former Navy Mutual CIO Tom Benton will report on core system transformation, IT strategy and project management, with a focus on life and annuity carriers.
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      • Conning/RASL Alliance Aims at Alternative Investment Strategies for Insurers
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 29, 2013
        The firms have adopted a "unique" approach will provide exposure to sources of return traditionally available only to investors in hedge funds but with significantly lower fees and capital charges as well as greater transparency and liquidity.
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      • ACORD Names Chief Standards Officer
        By Kathy Burger | April 23, 2013
        Former Zurich General Insurance executive Monique Hesseling joins the industry standards group as VP and chief standards officer, a new position.
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      • Xuber Launches in U.S. in Response to Demand for Modern Commercial Lines Solutions
        By | April 17, 2013
        The software business of Xchanging is offering an end-to-end module-based solution built on a single data model.
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      • Mutual Insurers More Sensitive to Catastrophe, Process and Technology Can Bridge the Gap
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 17, 2013
        Policy holders concentrated by type and geography are among the reasons mutual insurers are more susceptible to catastrophe claims challenges, but proactive measures and technology solutions can enable carriers to compensate, according to Willis Re.
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      • Boston Marathon Bombing's Implications for Insurance
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 16, 2013
        The attack introduced new risks into social life, which will ultimately affect risk management, security measures and insurance.
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      • MetLife CEO Pushback at SIFI is One Voice Among Many
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 12, 2013
        Steven Kandarian's comments at the April 10 Capital Markets Summit harmonize with those of other carriers and industry associations in a rare case of unanimity.
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      • Technology and History Accelerate Insurers' Risk Management Evolution
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 11, 2013
        Insurance chief risk officers are rising to greater prominence within their organizations as regulation and technological possibilities drive rapid evolution of risk quantification technology and techniques.
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      • Business Frameworks – Transformational Acceleration Pedal
        By Pierre Gagné, Insurance Frameworks Inc. | April 08, 2013
        Over the last few years, there has been increasingly industry buzz about capability models, enterprise business frameworks, reference models, etc. What are they, how can organizations benefit from them, and what types of projects can leverage them?
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      • Top Issues of 2013: Risk Management, Strategy and Operations — ReportSlideshow Article
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 05, 2013
        PwC identifies several key challenges that insurers will face during 2013, in areas such as risk management, strategy and operations.
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      • Worldwide IT Risk Spending Slows Down More Than Expected
        By | April 04, 2013
        As the memory of the financial crisis begins to wane and firms’ new, improved risk management practices become operational, worldwide IT risk spending is slowing at a faster rate than previously expected.
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      • Big Data Boosts Enterprise Risk Management
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 01, 2013
        Technology is democratizing insurers' access to high-performance computing and expanding their view of risk exposure.
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      • Michigan Oil Spill Cleanup May Exceed Insurance Coverage
        By Reuters | March 21, 2013
        Enbridge Energy Partners LP said on Wednesday that the costs of additional cleanup from a huge Michigan oil spill three years ago may push the total bill past the limit of its insurance coverage, hampering its financial results.

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      • Insurer Chief Risk Officers' Profiles Rise with Prominence of Tech: E&Y
        By Nathan Golia | March 19, 2013
        Increased risk exposure to risk due to social media and channel proliferation, as well as a focus on data and analytics projects in the "big data" era, is raising the profile of the chief risk officer within the insurance enterprise, according to Ernst & Young.
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      • 3 Trends in Insurance Technology TrainingSlideshow Article
        By Peggy Bresnick Kendler | March 15, 2013
        As with any other IT investment, insurance technology executives need to maximize the value – in terms of time and resources, as well as expenditures for every employee training investment. However, it’s often difficult to know where training will yield the biggest bang for the buck, as well as to determine the most effective ways to deliver training. Here are some strategies CIOs should keep in mind.
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      • Should Insurers Automate E-mail Deletion?
        By Nathan Golia | March 13, 2013
        Regulation demands that insurers stick to their content storage policies in case of lawsuit. How regimented is your company?
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      • What 4 Model Insurers Say About Industry TrendsSlideshow Article
        By Nathan Golia | March 08, 2013
        Celent recognized 18 insurers with Model Insurer awards last week for their innovative use of technology. These four are early adopters of capabilities that we predict will become table stakes across insurance.
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      • Conning/Milliman Partnership Boosts Economic Capital Modeling
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 05, 2013
        Linking Milliman’s MG-ALFA system with Conning’s GEMS Economic Scenario Generator will respond to regulators’ and raters increasing demand for stochastic modeling capabilities and foster a holistic approach to risk management.
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