2009-2010 Society Partners Program

Society Partners are firms who demonstrate a commitment to the CAS and its mission by making an annual pledge to support CAS activities. The CAS appreciates the support of its Partners.

Additional information on the Society Partners Program, including how to join, can be found in the Program brochure. Contact Mike Boa (mboa@casact.org or 703-562-1724) with any questions about the Program.

Platinum Partners

Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young's North American Insurance and Actuarial Advisory Services (IAAS) practice includes 175 professional staff throughout the United States, Mexico, Bermuda and Canada. IAAS helps clients address risk, reporting, capital management, merger and acquisition due diligence and integration, retirement income and actuarial department transformation issues, and provides insurance risk management and claims advisory services. Learn more at www.ey.com/us/actuarial.

Milliman

Milliman provides depth of knowledge, objective analysis, and practical strategies for the evolving property and casualty insurance industry. To succeed in the property and casualty industry today, companies need a clear understanding of political, economic, and demographic trends–coupled with a rigorous analysis of markets, opportunities, and risk. Milliman has played an important role in the evolution of the insurance industry. We have the experience to deliver insight into emerging trends in the context of your specific business dynamics. Supported by expert analysis, we offer focused advice on corporate strategy, risk management, product offerings, distribution, and other key areas.

Our sophisticated software tools reflect the latest advances and support essential risk management and reporting functions, including projections, pricing, reserving, and analysis of capital needs. Our consultants bring knowledge, experience, and an unbiased perspective to each assignment. Combining technical prowess with broad-based business expertise, we develop solutions that are practical and actionable–and customized for your organization’s needs.

Pauline Reimer/Pryor Associates Executive Search

“It Takes One To Know One…An Actuary Placing Actuaries”

Named a top recruiting firm by Dun & Bradstreet, Pryor has 40 years of insurance (P&C, Health, Life, Pensions & Investments) experience.

Pauline Reimer, ASA, MAAA, has headed the Actuarial Placement Division since 1986, after working as an actuary in insurance and consulting firms. Proudly the CAS's first Platinum Partner, she is also on the Executive Board of ASNY and the Advisory Board of Columbia University’s MS in Actuarial Science program.

Quoted in periodicals and television, Pauline handles each step of every actuarial assignment personally – no client is ever relegated to just an Assistant. Her impressive placement records of 99% retention rate and 100% success ratio in retained searches confirm her status as one of the most successful actuarial recruiters worldwide.

Towers Watson

Towers Watson is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations improve performance through effective people, risk and financial management. With 14,000 associates around the world, we offer solutions in the areas of employee benefits, talent management, rewards, and risk and capital management.

Our focus is on giving you the clarity to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And our approach is grounded in perspective – the kind that comes from our deep experience working on a wide range of issues.

But more important, our perspective begins at eye level – with a clear understanding of your organization, the way you work, your goals and your challenges.

By connecting the big picture and your picture, we help you achieve real-world results.

Gold Partner

Liberty Mutual Group

Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group is a diversified global insurer and fifth largest property and casualty insurer in the U.S. based on 2008 direct written premium. The Company also ranks 86th on the Fortune 500 list of largest corporations in the U.S. based on 2008 revenue. As of December 31, 2008, Liberty Mutual Group had $104.3 billion in consolidated assets, $94.2 billion in consolidated liabilities and $28.9 billion in annual consolidated revenue.

Liberty Mutual Group offers a wide range of insurance products and services, including personal automobile, homeowners, workers compensation, commercial multiple peril, commercial automobile, general liability, global specialty, group disability, assumed reinsurance, fire and surety.

Liberty Mutual Group employs over 45,000 people in more than 900 offices throughout the world.

Silver Partners

EMB

EMB is a leading international consulting firm specializing in property and casualty (P&C) insurance. Its services cover personal insurance, commercial insurance, and reinsurance. EMB offers C-Counsel Business Consulting, Actuarial Consulting, Professional Development, and Marketing Sciences.

Additionally, EMB pioneered the development and use of high-performance actuarial software, which allows businesses to perform tasks that would otherwise be impossible, impractical, or hugely time-consuming.

EMB employs more than 300 people around the globe covering North and South America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Our clients include 28 of the top 30 P&C companies in the world.

ISO

Since 1971, ISO has been a leading source of information about property/casualty insurance risk. For a broad spectrum of commercial and personal lines of insurance, the company provides statistical, actuarial, underwriting, and claims information; policy language; information about specific locations; fraud-identification tools; and technical services. ISO serves insurers, reinsurers, agents and brokers, insurance regulators, risk managers, and other participants in the property/casualty insurance marketplace. For more information, visit www.iso.com. ISO is a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics.

Munich Re America

Munich Re America, a member of the Munich Re Group, offers superior capacity to meet clients’ risk-transfer needs, and a full range of property and casualty coverages through multiple distribution channels. Its three business platforms include: the property-casualty reinsurance division, Munich America Reinsurance, which provides treaty and facultative reinsurance products and services on both a broker and direct basis; affiliate Hartford Steam Boiler, a global specialty insurer and reinsurer offering a range of specialty coverages, engineering-based risk management, and loss reduction services; and the Munich America Specialty Insurance division, which includes specialty personal lines insurance group American Modern Insurance Group and the Specialty Markets division, a provider of risk solutions to nontraditional insurance entities. More about Munich Re America products and services can be found at www.munichreamerica.com.

Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc.

The Firm of Choice for Predictive Modeling

Pinnacle is a pioneer in applying predictive modeling to property and casualty insurance. Our modeling experience is enhanced by our consultants’ experience in the property and casualty insurance industry. Best of all, Pinnacle shares our knowledge with you. This process helps you understand your data better, and become a more sophisticated user of data for future analysis and application.

Why Pinnacle Is the Firm of Choice for Predictive Modeling

• Predictive Modeling Experience - We have completed, or are in the process of completing, nearly 100 predictive modeling projects for insurers over the past decade. Our customers include large insurers (4 of the top 10 property and casualty insurance companies) and small insurers. These projects have included pricing, scorecard development, homeowner by-peril rating, credit, alternative vehicle symbol development and redefining rating territories.
• Insurance Industry Experience - Combined our consultants have over 100 years of experience in rate and class plan analysis of personal and commercial lines of insurance. Pinnacle delivers a final plan and has the expertise to assist in the effective implementation of the plan.
• Knowledge Transfer - Pinnacle places a great emphasis on knowledge transfer. This helps our clients to understand the process used to develop the models and gives the client the option of being self-sufficient in the future.

See for yourself why Pinnacle is “The Firm of Choice for Predictive Modeling.”