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November 20th, 2008

Solution Spotlight: i-aXs®: Life, Accident and Health

Posted at 12:50 AM ET

The i-aXs® data management platform has revolutionized risk portfolio management. Guy Carpenter’s award-winning platform gives risk-bearers the power to convert life, accident and health (LA&H) data quickly into clear, concise information that fuels faster, better-informed decision-making. The i-aXs platform contemplates the complex data needs and perils specific to this line of business while providing a combined assessment of property and casualty exposures.

i-aXs products such as Risk ProfileriX, AccumulatoriX, and RealCatiX, hep carriers manage their LA&H exposures with a simple way to dig deeper into their own data.

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November 13th, 2008

Solution Spotlight: Casualty Cat

Posted at 1:00 AM ET

Casualty risk is rarely linear. A single event could affect many insureds across several lines of business, triggering disproportionate payouts, depleting balance sheets, and possibly threatening solvency. While carriers have been aware of the domino effect that could follow a casualty event, a realistic approach to risk mitigation has been elusive. Sufficient data and modeling capabilities historically have been in short supply. Fortunately, there is a new way to manage this threat. The Casualty Cat Model, developed jointly by Guy Carpenter and Arium, Ltd., makes it possible to track exposures throughout your portfolio and develop a plan for protecting your capital.

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November 6th, 2008

Solution Spotlight: MetaRisk®

Posted at 1:00 AM ET

MetaRisk®, the (re)insurance industry’s original decision support tool, has helped insurance companies make analytically informed decisions about their risk and capital management for nearly two decades. MetaRisk has been expanded to give you a full economic capital model with complete transparency. It can be used to data-mine the causes of risk and the financial consequences.  You can evaluate alternative risk and capital management opportunities and anticipate their impacts on your company’s balance sheet … before you have to make a commitment.

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October 30th, 2008

Solution Spotlight: GC LiveCat™ and GC ForeCat™

Posted at 6:12 PM ET

GC LiveCat and GC ForeCat help you assess the impact of Atlantic hurricane activity—and potential losses—on your U.S. risk portfolio. With deeper detail, Guy Carpenter’s clients now have access to improved risk management capabilities, enabling them to manage their reinsurance purchases more effectively. GC ForeCat offers a detailed monthly pre-season hurricane landfall rate forecast from December through April, for four defined regions along the Atlantic Hurricane Basin, prior to the upcoming hurricane season. GC LiveCat delivers a forecast of 10 days—updated every twelve hours—for named storms in the Atlantic Hurricane Basin, along with probabilities of landfall by gate.

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