Highlights

Bentley Team WINS Fourth Annual Travelers Insurance Actuarial Case Competition.

Each year, Travelers Insurance invites selected schoolls to participate in an Annual Actuarial Case Competition. Only schools seen as target recruiting opportunities are invited to participate. The six schools invited this year were: Bentley, Hartford, UConn, WPI , Bryant and Temple. Though Bentley participated each of the four years and our teams have done a great job each time, this year marks the team's first WIN.

Teams were asked to consider how Travelers could account for the presence of innovative auto safety devices in pricing auto policies with the goal of increasing their profit due to these policies. They were given five hours to prepare a solution, a presentation, and are give the opportunity to give the presentation in front of an audience and team of Travelers judges.

Team members were: Sophomores Ross Denkin, Rob Henault and Julia Osborn and Juniors, Laura Muise, Long Nguyen and Sean Pankiewicz. They received a $1500 cash prize and the right to display the winner’s plaque for one year.

The victory would not have been possible without the generous help and advising offered by prior team members Christie Mason and Yulia Podolny, Math Department faculty members Norm Josephy , Sam Woolford and Emmy Roth (faculty advisor for the team).

Congratualtions Team!

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The Bentley Center for Quantitative Analysis offers a broad range of analytical services, tailoring each project to meet a client’s specific needs. We are available to undertake specific short-term projects or to engage in ongoing collaborative partnerships. We work with prospective clients to help define their business or research issues in a quantitative framework so that appropriate analytical approaches can be considered. We consider analytical options with the client to ensure that our approach will not only address the client's issue but also be understood, interpretable and accepted by the client organization.

The center provides analytical methodologies in the following areas:

Statistical services including study and survey design, sampling, data analysis, estimation and data mining
Mathematical and statistical modeling and simulation
Forecasting
Optimization and operations research methodologies
Ecomonic impact assessment
Training seminars and workshops to allow the client organization to expand their analytic capabilities (for both business analysis ‘consumers’ and business analysis ‘users’)

We work with our clients to ensure that the results of any analysis are translated back into the terms of the original issue so that they can be assimilated into client organization. Finally, we are happy to collaborate with a client’s in-house staff on projects to effectively transfer knowledge to client staff. In all our work, we protect our client confidentiality and conform to current statistical ethical guidelines.

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Highlights

Bentley Team WINS Fourth Annual Travelers Insurance Actuarial Case Competition.

Services