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Tillinghast Smart Modeling™ Thought Leadership

• Update: Continuous Solvency Monitoring in Current Market Conditions – Overcoming the Practical Challenges

  With the FSA requesting more frequent and fast balance sheet and solvency updates from life companies, Towers Perrin analyzes why and how UK insurers can prepare with smart modelling solutions.

• Practical Variable Annuity Hedging - Emphasis 2008/3

  Variable annuity (VA) writers are facing heightened challenges from the recent turbulence in financial markets. Many leading annuity writers are implementing dynamic hedging programs for a robust, yet practical, response.

• Smart Modeling for a Stochastic World - Emphasis 2007/4

  Modern insurance company financial analysis requires use of stochastic methods. Tillinghast Smart Modeling™ makes them more manageable, usable and understandable.

• Practical Variable Annuity Hedging - Emphasis 2008/3

  Variable annuity (VA) writers are facing heightened challenges from the recent turbulence in financial markets. Many leading annuity writers are implementing dynamic hedging programs for a robust, yet practical, response.

• Smart Modeling for a Stochastic World - Emphasis 2007/4

  Modern insurance company financial analysis requires use of stochastic methods. Tillinghast Smart Modeling™ makes them more manageable, usable and understandable.

Related Thought Leadership

• Enterprise Risk Management & Financial Modeling - Emphasis 2008/4

  The financial crisis adds urgency to of having a fully integrated risk and capital management platform to support sound decisions and make optimal use of capital.

• Financial Modeling for Today’s Demands - Emphasis 2008/2

  The gains from next-generation financial modeling go beyond regulatory compliance, promising improved risk management, greater efficiency and increased profits.

• Financial Modeling: The Human Dimension - Update September 2007

  Whether it's for planning and budgeting, ALM or valuation purposes, sophisticated analyses that are critical to managing life insurance companies rely on advanced financial modeling techniques.

• Financial Modeling a New Generation of Tools - Emphasis 2007/4

  Rating agencies, regulators, reinsurers, investors and others are putting increasing demands on insurers to provide detailed information about the risks they take, how they manage them and the impact on company financial results.

• The Future of Financial Modeling in Insurance - Emphasis 2006/4

  Competitive pressures along with regulatory and rating agency demands for a more comprehensive risk analysis are leading to a more sophisticated financial modeling, using advanced technologies.

• The Last Word: Innovation in Financial Modeling - Emphasis 2006/3

  Innovation evolves sometimes from a moment of inspiration, sometimes from years of hard work, and sometimes by applying a tried-and-tested concept to a new problem. Tillinghast Smart Modeling™ reflects elements of each of these.

• Mounting Pressures on Financial Modeling - Emphasis 2006/1

  Pressures on a variety of fronts are spurring life insurers to develop ever more sophisticated financial models to meet future needs. Technology and modeling techniques need to be continually updated to meet the demand.