Claude Penland: Actuary & Partner, Ezra Penland Actuarial Recruitment

The Reinsurance Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4343960

The Life Actuarial Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4345437

The Casualty Actuarial Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4344075

The Health Actuarial Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4346382

The Entry Level Actuary: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3701842

The Catastrophe Risk Modeling Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4015385

The Insurance Predictive Modeling Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4347019

EzraPenland.com Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3427061

The Experienced Actuary: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4014627

Ezra Penland Actuarial Recruitment Launches in Chicago, Illinois

CHICAGO, IL: Sally Ezra and Claude Penland, two global leaders in the international actuarial recruiting industry, today as partners announce the launch of their company, Ezra Penland Actuarial Recruitment (“Ezra Penland”) in Chicago, Illinois.

Joining Sally and Claude at Ezra Penland are five outstanding employees.  They include Debbie Charbonneau, Kevin Elliott, Dana Kelly, Yvonne McArdle and Emily Moss.  To read more about their top quality staff, see EzraPenland.com/recruiters.

Initially, the Group of Seven will be focused on the North American actuarial recruitment market, and then rapidly expand into the global market.  It is Ezra Penland’s plan to be the market leader in their niche, as Sally Ezra has spent nearly two decades recruiting actuaries, has developed strong professional relationships and a vast network of clientele. They value her commitment, resourcefulness, her personal attention and, above all, her high level of professional ethics.

Claude Penland is an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He has over twenty years of experience as a casualty actuary and as a web strategist for actuarial recruitment organizations.

Ezra Penland additionally announces the timely publishing of their 2011 industry standard United States actuarial salary surveys at EzraPenland.com/salary.  These 11 salary surveys include unprecedented detail on compensation for Property and Casualty, Life, Pension and Health actuaries.  The details further break salaries down by consulting, reinsurance and insurance/all other employers of actuaries.  An Adobe Acrobat file of all surveys is immediately available to be downloaded, printed and shared.

Ezra Penland is becoming known as the publisher of C-level insurance and reinsurance US salary surveys at EzraPenland.com/c-level.  These CEO/CFO/CRO/etc. studies can also be found at LifeSalarySurvey.com, HealthSalarySurvey.com, CasualtySalarySurvey.com and ReinsuranceSalarySurvey.com.

To read more about their mission, types of searches and their specialities, see EzraPenland.com/about.  Past clients and candidates recommend their services highly at EzraPenland.com/testimonials.

 2011 US Actuarial Salary Surveys Published by ClaudePenland.com

Found at ClaudePenland.com/salary, these base salary plus bonus compensation surveys are split by Life, Property and Casualty, Pensions and Health actuarial work.

Comprising 10 distinct salary tables listing years of employment and number of actuarial exams, they are further distributed by consulting versus insurance / reinsurance / other employment. These actuary salary surveys were derived using public compensation data.

A downloadable, printable and shareable pdf file of all salary tables is also available directly from the ClaudePenland.com/salary page.

Claude Penland is an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, with twenty years of industry experience. His ClaudePenland.com website has a rapidly growing, global readership of 50,000+ visitors/month. Claude posts 6+ times a day at ClaudePenland.com on actuarial news, insurance news (also reachable at 4InsuranceNews.com), insurance startup companies (InsuranceStartups.com), insurance mergers and acquisitions (WhoBoughtWho.com), insurance trends (InsTrends.com), reinsurance news and trends (ReinsuranceTrends.com), web startups (1000Startups.com), web trends (WebTrendInfo.com), web development, pension risk (PensionRiskNews.com), catastrophe risk (CatRisky.com), Solvency II European insurance regulations (SolvencyDeux.com), Takaful (TakafulMe.com), predictive analytics (PredNews.com), risk management (TheRiskNews.com), odd business ideas (OddBusinessIdeas.com), plus finance and investment.

At ClaudePenland.com/multimedia, there are 50+ helpful presentations, videos and articles. As a leading online social networking actuary, Claude presents “LinkedIn Social Networking for Insurance Professionals”, “111 Important Twitter Feeds for Insurance Professionals”, as well as various salary surveys (InsuranceSalarySurveys.com, ReinsuranceSalarySurvey.com).

His timely article on Solvency II European insurance regulations was published in the May 2011 issue of the Casualty Actuarial Society’s Actuarial Review. Claude’s Catastrophe Risk Trends piece was published in the May/June 2011 issue of the American Academy of Actuaries’ Contingencies magazine.

Subscribe to Claude’s daily email digest at ClaudePenland.com/subscribe or contact him at claude@claudepenland.com. Wake Up and SmelltheNews.com ™.

Press Release: ClaudePenland.com Surpasses Two Major Milestones in March, 2011

April 1, 2011, Pittsburgh, PA: Claude Penland, casualty actuary and webmaster, reached more milestones in March, 2011 with his prominent ClaudePenland.com insurance and web news site.

Page views in March, 2011 were over 200,000 for the month, which is an increase of 33% more page views than February, 2011. See ClaudePenland.com/demographics.

Additionally, since its inception in July, 2010, the informative post archive on ClaudePenland.com has now reached – and passed – 2,000, roughly seven posts per day.

Post counts for common searches and categories are below. These add to more than 2000 because some posts span more than one category or keyword search.

Actuarial (150 posts) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=actuarial
Actuaries (120) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=actuaries
Actuary (220) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=actuary
Africa (25) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=africa
Angel Investors (10) – http://www.claudepenland.com/category/investor-angels-investing-investment/
Annuities (10) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=annuities
Asia (60) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=asia
Australia (20) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=australia
Benefits (50) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=benefits
Bermuda (55) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=bermuda
Brokers (20) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=brokers
Canada (35) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=canada
Caribbean (5) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=caribbean
Casualty (120) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=casualty
Catastrophe Bonds (25) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=catastrophe+bonds
Catastrophe Risk (175) – http://www.catrisky.com
China (55) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=china
Claims (45) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=claims
ClaudePenland.com Posts (2000 posts) – http://www.claudepenland.com
Consulting (70) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=consulting
Data Mining (30) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=data+mining
Derivatives (10) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=derivatives
Earthquake (40) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=earthquake
Emerging Risk (15) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=emerging+risk
Enterprise Risk (30) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=enterprise+risk
Europe (110) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=europe
Facebook (80) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=facebook
Famous Quotes (35) – http://www.fridaysquote.com
Health (150) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=health
Hedge Funds (5) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=hedge+funds
Hong Kong (20) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=hong+kong
Hurricane (20) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=hurricane
India (50) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=india
Insurance Linked Securities (35) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=insurance+linked+securities
Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions (150) – http://www.whoboughtwho.com
Insurance News (770) – http://www.4insurancenews.com
Insurance Startups (95) – http://www.insurancestartups.com
Insurance Stocks (10) – http://www.claudepenland.com/category/insurance-stocks/
Insurance Trends (270) – http://www.instrends.com
International Finance (70) – http://www.claudepenland.com/category/international-finance/
Investments (30) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=investments
Islamic Insurance (15) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=islamic+insurance
Latin America (10) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=latin+america
Life (200) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=life
LinkedIn (110) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=linkedin
Lists (70) – http://www.claudepenland.com/category/lists/
London (40) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=london
Marketing (55) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=marketing
Mathematics (5) – http://www.claudepenland.com/category/math-mathematics-maths/
Microinsurance (15) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=microinsurance
Middle East (10) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=middle+east
Modeling (70) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=modeling
Models (30) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=models
Multimedia (5) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=mulitmedia
None of the Above (45) – http://www.claudepenland.com/category/none-of-the-above/
Odd Business Ideas (30) – http://www.oddbusinessideas.com
Pandemic (10) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=pandemic
Pensions (75) – http://www.pensionrisknews.com
Predictive Analytics (100) – http://www.prednews.com
Presentations (35) – http://www.claudepenland.com/category/presentations/
Press Releases (5) – http://www.claudepenland.com/category/press-releases/
Pricing (25) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=pricing
Programming (10) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=programming
Property (90) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=property
Published Articles (25) – http://www.claudepenland.com/category/published-articles/
Regulation (45) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=regulation
Reinsurance (130) – http://www.reinsurancetrends.com
Reserving (5) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=reserving
Risk (315) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=risk
Risk Management (100) – http://www.therisknews.com
Risk Officer (30) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=risk+officer
Risk Transfer (10) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=risk+transfer
Salaries (20) – http://www.claudepenland.com/category/salary-salaries-compensation/
Social Networking (80) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=social+networking
Solvency II (125) – http://www.solvencydeux.com
Statistics (10) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=statistics
Storms (15) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=storms
Switzerland (15) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=switzerland
Takaful (50) – http://www.takafulme.com
Technology (80) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=technology
Tsunami (10) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=tsunami
Twitter (80) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=twitter
Underwriter (35) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=underwriter
Underwriting (40) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=underwriting
United Kingdom (25) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=united+kingdom
Weather (40) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=weather
Weather Risk (25) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=weather+risk
Web Development (130) – http://www.claudepenland.com/category/web-development/
Web Startups (275) – http://www.1000startups.com
Web Trends (260) – http://www.webtrendinfo.com
Zurich (10) – http://www.claudepenland.com/?s=zurich

At ClaudePenland.com, Claude writes at least six times daily about international risk, insurance, financial and web trends. To subscribe to Claude’s daily digest, visit ClaudePenland.com/subscribe.

Claude Penland
claude@claudepenland.com
ClaudePenland.com

Press Release: The Art of War as told by Sun Tzu and Charlie Sheen = TheArtofCharlie.com

PRLog (Press Release) – Mar 04, 2011 – A PowerPoint presentation has been released at TheArtofCharlie.com entitled, “The Art of War, as told by Sun Tzu and Charlie Sheen”.  Charlie Sheen, with his myriad latest quotes, has clearly reinvented the classic war tome.  Four examples from the presentation:

“The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.” – Sun Tzu

“Every plan I have is the best plan in the room.” – Charlie Sheen

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“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” – Sun Tzu

“The only thing I’m addicted to right now is winning.” – Charlie Sheen

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“If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.” – Sun Tzu

“There’s a new sheriff in town. And he has an army of assassins.” – Charlie Sheen

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“Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.” – Sun Tzu

“I’m tired of pretending I’m not a total bitchin’ rock star from Mars.” – Charlie Sheen

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Read more at TheArtofCharlie.com.

Press Release: “111 Twitter Feeds for Insurance Professionals” Presentation Released at ClaudePenland.com

February 22, 2011 – Pittsburgh, Pa. – “111 Twitter Feeds for Insurance Professionals”, a PowerPoint presentation, is available immediately via free download at ClaudePenland.com/multimedia. This presentation covers, in alphabetical order, 111 of the top accounts on Twitter that provide news and trends about global reinsurance and insurance.

Ten interesting insurance-related Twitter feeds on the list include:

5. twitter.com/actuary_dot_org – American Academy of Actuaries
12. twitter.com/artemisbm – Alternative risk transfer news
17. twitter.com/casact – Casualty Actuarial Society
19. twitter.com/catrisky – Catastrophe risk news
41. twitter.com/insnewsnet – InsuranceNewsNet
54. twitter.com/insurancetech – Insurance & Technology
64. twitter.com/lloydsoflondon – Lloyd’s of London
69. twitter.com/nasahurricane – NASA hurricane news
86. twitter.com/reactionsnet – Insurance reinsurance news
89. twitter.com/reinsurancegirl – Reinsurance insurance PR

Claude Penland, casualty actuary and webmaster, has 29 presentations available for download at ClaudePenland.com/multimedia. These include presentations and videos about insurance trends, catastrophe risk trends, reinsurance, insurance startups, insurance mergers and acquisitions, C-level salary surveys and many other topics.

Press Release: Risk and Insurance Article Archive Announced at ClaudePenland.com/multimedia

February 18, 2011 – Pittsburgh, Pa. – Claude Penland, Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society with twenty years of insurance industry experience, announces his new article archive at ClaudePenland.com/multimedia.

All pieces are written by Claude Penland, with many additional risk and insurance articles planned. Informative pieces included in the archive include:

-10 Prominent Influenza Pandemic Models: Death, Disease and Economic Loss Modeling

-20 Insurance Trends to Watch

-More Insurance Trends to Watch for Actuaries, Underwriters and Claims Personnel, Part 2

-2011 Web Trends, Including Social Networking and Venture Capital

-An Exciting Time to Consider the Microinsurance Market

-Annual Property and Casualty Reinsurance Salary Survey

-Handy Executive Recruitment and Job Hunting Tools

-Health Insurance Compensation Survey at Top 10 United States Insurers

-Life Insurance Salaries at the Top Among CEO’s, Chairmen and Others

-Pension Risk Trends: Companies, Governments, Accounting, Oh My

-Predictive Modeling for Actuaries: Eight Great PowerPoint Presentations and Articles

-Property and Casualty Insurance Salaries in the C-Suite

-Recent Activity Among Insurance Company Startups and Branch Operations

-Recent Activity in the Global Reinsurance Market

-Recent Activity in the Takaful (Islamic Insurance) Market

-So Why Do Job Hunters Use Executive Recruiters?

-Social Networking for Insurance Professionals on LinkedIn, Parts One, Two, Three, Four and Five

-Ten International Emerging Risks for Insurers and Reinsurers

At ClaudePenland.com, Claude Penland, casualty actuary and webmaster, writes at least six times daily about international risk, insurance, financial and web trends. To subscribe to Claude’s daily digest, visit ClaudePenland.com/subscribe.

Claude Penland
claude@claudepenland.com
ClaudePenland.com

Press Release: Insurance Social Networking, Predictive Modeling and Microinsurance Presentations Available

Summary: “Predictive Modeling for Life, Health and Property & Casualty Actuaries”, “Microinsurance is Exciting” and “LinkedIn Social Networking for Insurance Professionals” presentations produced by Claude Penland.

February 17, 2011 – Pittsburgh, Pa. – Three insurance-related presentations and videos have been released for immediate viewing at ClaudePenland.com/multimedia. All presentations are free to download and share.

The first presentation is called “LinkedIn Social Networking for Insurance Professionals”. LinkedIn is the most active professional social network in the world.. According to their press materials, they have over 90 million international members, with roughly half of those members residing in the United States. If you work in insurance or reinsurance as an underwriter, attorney, accountant, actuary, actuarial analyst, risk manager, claims professional, financial analyst, agent or other insurance role, this presentation will list for you some of the more active insurance-related jobs and discussion groups on LinkedIn.

“Microinsurance is Exciting” is the second presentation. Microinsurance is generally designed for low-income businesses and individuals who aren’t typically covered by traditional insurance. It is usually sold at low premiums and low coverage limits / caps. It has a potential eventual annual premium of $40 billion worldwide.

A third presentation is titled “Predictive Modeling for Life, Health and Property & Casualty Actuaries”. This predictive analytics presentation provides eight examples of strong industry presentations and articles where actuaries can apply predictive modeling to life insurance, property and casualty insurance and health insurance / actuarial data.

These presentations were authored by Claude Penland, a casualty actuary and webmaster with twenty years of insurance industry experience. On ClaudePenland.com, Claude writes at least six times a day on the international insurance-related and web-related issues that he explores daily, and regularly posts interesting presentations, videos and articles at ClaudePenland.com/multimedia.

Subscribe to his daily digest at ClaudePenland.com/subscribe.

Claude Penland
claude@claudepenland.com
ClaudePenland.com

Press Release: Timely Presentations on Insurance Trends, Emerging Risks and Pandemic Models Released by Actuary
Summary: “40 Insurance Trends for 2011″, “10 Emerging Risks for Insurers and Reinsurers” and “10 Influenza Pandemic Models” are released by ClaudePenland.com.

February 17, 2011 – Pittsburgh, Pa. – Claude Penland, casualty actuary and webmaster, has produced at ClaudePenland.com/multimedia three informative PowerPoint presentations and videos for underwriters, financial analysts, actuaries, actuarial analysts, accountants, consultants, claims personnel and others in the insurance and reinsurance industries.

The first is entitled “40 Insurance Trends for 2011″. Forty insurance trends are considered, including healthcare, health plan grandfathering, asset quality, Takaful, microinsurance, emerging risks, insurance industry job losses, predictive analytics use, as well as other global insurance and reinsurance trends.

The second presentation is called “10 Emerging Risks for Insurers and Reinsurers”. These risks include infrastructure, cyber attacks, space weather, nanotechnology and municipal bankruptcies.

A third presentation, “10 Influenza Pandemic Models”, profiles models from the Society of Actuaries, Milliman, VirSim, Risk Management Solutions, Military Science, INFORMS, Los Alamos, open source alternatives and others.

About ClaudePenland.com: Claude writes at least six times a day on the international business issues that he explores daily. These global topics include insurance news (4InsuranceNews.com), insurance startup companies (InsuranceStartups.com), insurance mergers and acquisitions (WhoBoughtWho.com), insurance trends (InsTrends.com), reinsurance news and trends (ReinsuranceTrends.com), web startups (1000Startups.com), web trends (WebTrendInfo.com), web development, pension risk (PensionRiskNews.com), catastrophe risk (CatRisky.com), Solvency II European insurance regulations (SolvencyDeux.com), Takaful (TakafulMe.com), predictive analytics (PredNews.com), risk management (TheRiskNews.com), odd business ideas (OddBusinessIdeas.com), plus finance and investment.

Claude Penland
claude@claudepenland.com
ClaudePenland.com