INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY
Moody’s Analytics | November 25, 2021
Moody’s Analytics is pleased to announce the launch of RiskIntegrity™ Investment Insight, an asset-liability management (ALM) solution for insurance companies. The new tool combines data and modeling capabilities from across Moody’s Analytics to help insurers to build liability-aware investment portfolios and better evaluate their investment strategies across a range of business metrics.
Insurance companies face a variety of challenges in managing their organization’s investment strategy including understanding the impact of alternative asset classes, reducing the operational risk of maintaining complex data and models, and adapting to regulatory change. Available as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, RiskIntegrity Investment Insight helps insurers’ ALM and investment teams address these challenges by bringing Moody’s Analytics core content and models to life to deliver user-friendly analytics and reports on demand.
“Insurers are looking for control and visibility of the economic assumptions and scenarios embedded in their investment process. They need to be able to quickly assess the impact of investment decisions across a range of business metrics – economic, capital, and liquidity. RiskIntegrity Investment Insight will help insurers to perform strategic asset allocation, make better investment decisions, and take more control of their investment process,”
- Phil Mowbray, Senior Director at Moody’s Analytics.
Using the tool, ALM and investment teams can develop new investment strategies to enhance risk-adjusted returns, and apply filters or constraints to align with their specific objectives and risk profiles.
RiskIntegrity Investment Insight is part of Moody’s Analytics suite of award-winning solutions designed to help insurers manage current and emerging risks, and make better integrated risk decisions. Moody’s Analytics insurance solutions include the RiskIntegrity™ for IFRS 17 solution, our AXIS™ actuarial system, and Climate Pathway Scenario Service.
About Moody’s Analytics
Moody’s Analytics provides financial intelligence and analytical tools to help business leaders make better, faster decisions. Our deep risk expertise, expansive information resources, and innovative application of technology help our clients confidently navigate an evolving marketplace. We are known for our industry-leading and award-winning solutions, made up of research, data, software, and professional services, assembled to deliver a seamless customer experience. We create confidence in thousands of organizations worldwide, with our commitment to excellence, open mindset approach, and focus on meeting customer needs.
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ANNUITIES
WEBSURANCE | December 02, 2021
Howell Benefit Services, Inc. (HBS), and Howell Benefit Technologies LLC (dba RATECentric) have released WEBSURANCE, a fully insured health and welfare benefits trust featuring top ranked group insurance companies for carriers, producers, and employers. In conjunction with the Trust, a paperless, digital WEBSURANCE platform was also launched enabling carriers and producers to offer employers superior level benefit plans, competitive pricing, and extended rate guarantees.
HBS is pleased to announce MetLife and Vision Benefits of America (VBA) as the first multi-year Trust participants offering group dental and vision benefits, respectively, to employers nationwide with products and plan designs typically found in the enterprise market.
We continue to enhance our online presence utilizing our digital technology by adding these two market leading insurance carriers, We've had exceptional success for over 25 years building and managing digital websites and have been a pioneer in API integration for several top ranked group carriers. Our technology has enabled the carriers we serve to measure and demonstrate the efficiencies and profitability of outsourcing online quoting, case submission, premium billing, sales activity, license tracking and commission payment in a single application.
- Roger Howell, President of HBS.
Our real time quoting platform's success, which has been online nationwide since 2013 and now serving two of the top five national group insurance carriers, illustrates how our team has combined deep-rooted benefits knowledge, four decades of TPA experience, and integrating it with our proprietary and commercially successful digital platform technology."
Howell has provided customized, multi-carrier and premium billing technology, producer appointment and license tracking as well as commission payment technology for carriers and producers since 2000.
"By utilizing WEBSURANCE's digital solution we are able to streamline our offerings for customers and provide them with access to competitive benefit plan options, instant rates and case submission, pricing and backroom support as a result of our collaboration with Howell."
- Cynthia Smith, SVP of Regional Business at MetLife
VBA's Vice President, Matt Cuomo stated, "The WEBSURANCE Trust is the perfect vessel for us to showcase our national vision plan benefit portfolio. The quoting, case submission and plan administration features offered by WEBSURANCE are unprecedented, based on our experience."
The WEBSURANCE Benefits Trust will be offering additional online group and voluntary benefit plans in 2022, further reducing quoting and administrative expenses while, at the same time, increasing closing ratios for carriers and producers.
About WEBSURANCE
The WEBSURANCE Benefits Trust is a fully insured, national group insurance trust that covers hundreds of employer groups, with the capacity and scalability to offer a variety of carriers' product lines. Eligible group insurance products include health, dental, vision, life, disability, voluntary life, disability, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident. WEBSURANCE is administered by Howell Benefit Services, Inc. (Howell), located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Howell is a nationally recognized, online, Third Party Administrator (TPA) in business since 1982.
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RISK MANAGEMENT
Surefire Cyber | June 01, 2022
Surefire Cyber, a new incident response company, debuted today to assist cyber insurers, brokers, legal firms, and the enterprises they support in better managing cyber events like ransomware, email hacking, and other cybercrimes. The firm received a $10 million Series A round of funding from Forgepoint Capital.
Surefire Cyber's goal is to work with our clients and partners to swiftly manage a cyber incident and then bring forward capabilities to help them become more cyber resilient. Our delivery of end-to-end digital forensics and incident response capabilities is built on a tech-enabled framework and delivered through a platform that aligns and connects an organization's executives, technical team, insurance carrier, and legal counsel."
Billy Gouveia, the CEO and Founder of Surefire Cyber.
Surefire Cyber is committed to being great partners to carriers, brokers, Breach Coaches®, and the clients they work together to support. We are pleased to welcome them as new contributors to the cyber insurance ecosystem who offer deep experience and a valuable perspective."
Mark Greisiger, President and Founder of NetDiligence®.
Based on two long-term trends: the rising cost of cyber incidents and the growing adoption of cyber insurance, industry veterans found Surefire Cyber as a purpose-built response firm that leverages a proven team and a tech-enabled platform to improve transparency, improve decision making, minimize business interruption, and guide organizations from recovery to long-term resilience.
Forgepoint Capital, the world's most active early-stage cybersecurity venture capital firm, is backing Surefire Cyber. Before he started Surefire Cyber, Gouveia worked as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Forgepoint. There, he helped develop the company's strategy, business model, technology, and team, as well as build important partnerships with companies across the firm's portfolio.
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