Claude Penland: Actuary & Partner, Ezra Penland Actuarial Recruitment

CatCo is still planning an open-ended hedge fund which could raise as much as US$1 billion.

Also see Catco Investment Management Formed as a Catastrophe Reinsurance Fund.

Upon his resignation, it is expected that David Greenfield will assume the position of chief financial officer, the company said in a filing.

Essentials of Hurricane Catastrophe Modeling presentation, .pdf file.

See ClaudePenland.com/demographics.

Catastrophes Top 2010 List of Major Events.

22 Predictive Analytics Applications That Were Proven Very Effective in 2010
- by Claude Penland

•1. Predictive Analytics Applied to the Hospital Billing Process http://bit.ly/gpX9ak  

•2. Competitive Market Analysis of Auto Insurance Companies http://bit.ly/ezsTa8

•3. Educational Data Mining is becoming popular http://bit.ly/fM0M1a

•4. Predictive Analytics Applied to Data Centers http://bit.ly/i772qt

•5. New Model Predicts Presence of Meth Labs Very Accurately http://bit.ly/aIgUGH

•6. Analyze 50% of Annual Tweets for $360K/year http://bit.ly/an8pTt

•7. Monitoring Physician Performance for Predictive Profiling http://bit.ly/bYt4sg

•8. Are You Arguing With a Real Person or a Bot? http://bit.ly/9fgEg4 

•9. 5 Ways Predictive Analytics Can Monetize Social Networks http://bit.ly/b0oPwg

•10. truthy.indiana.edu can uncover Astroturfing and Political Tactics http://bit.ly/9YVnjG

•11. Medicare Predictive Modeling Provision included in Small Business Lending Act http://bit.ly/bOx7zB

•12. Employee contributions to revenue http://bit.ly/aTmhbS 

•13. Predicting Employee Success http://bit.ly/clox2R

•14. Commercial Insurers Who Use Predictive Modeling are seeing Pricing Strength http://bit.ly/aIrtlV

•15. Plan a Healthcare System using Link Analysis (Data Mining) http://bit.ly/btUeRF

•16. The Ability to Analyze Social Connections is Proving Increasingly Useful http://bit.ly/cKGFZb 

•17. Predictive Analytics for Phone Calls, and Call Data Mining http://bit.ly/i06aCs

•18. Forecast Career Paths by Resume Analytics http://bit.ly/gvlFKJ

•19. Criminal Reduction Utilizing Statistical History, UK & USA Predictive Analytics http://bit.ly/9Gge1p

•20. Tool for Insurance Project Management http://bit.ly/dmKx1P 

•21. Thorotrends offers research/analytics for horse racing http://bit.ly/diinec

•22. Recorded Future scans Twitter accounts, blogs, and websites to find relationships, organizations, actions and incident data related to topics like terrorism. http://bit.ly/beJTzA

•Bonus. Predictive Analytics, Modeling News and 2010 Trends PowerPoint Presentation

•23. FleetRiskAdvisors.com (see comments)

Predictive Analytics, Modeling News and Trends Presentation- covers predictive analytics, modeling news and trends, including new developments, interesting applications, data dilemmas and changes, investment, employment trends, conferences and other timely information.

Fundamentals of Catastrophe Modeling presentation.

CBIC is a Seattle-based insurer specializing in surety bonds and related niche property and casualty insurance products.

The company serves 30,000+ contractors and 4,000+ insurance agents and brokers nationwide. CBIC is considered a leading writer of contractor license bonds in the Northwest.

Casualty Actuarial Society Meeting Presentations, Search Online.