Description: This article celebrates the tremendous progress that has been made in automating reinsurance data. It also looks at remaining issues, such as a lack of standardization, and challenges presented for the future.

Description: Feature article discussing preferred methods of communication.

Description: Feature article discussing one company’s guidelines for social media use.

Description: This article notes the importance of social media to the corporation, both internally among employees and externally. Suggestions are given on how to get started. Cautions about legal and PR issues that may arise are discussed.

Description: This article gives specific instructions on setting up an account on LinkedIn.

Description: An article from the August 2004 issue of Reinsurance Section News talking about the newly redesigned SOA Web site.

Description: The following case study walks through the steps of a predictive modeling exercise to illustrate one way analytics can streamline the underwriting paradigm.

Description: This article looks at how the underwriting process has transformed from a paper process to become fully online. Not only has the process been digitized, there has been various innovations incorporating technology thus enabling large volume process automation, better customer experience as well as higher closing ratio. Other than improvement on speed and efficiency, various smart solutions are being explored to refine risk management through data mining and analysis of underwriting data.