Lotter Actuarial Partners would like to wish all clients and friends a happy and safe holiday season, and a prosperous new year!!

10th Anniversary: Lotter Actuarial Partners celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2004! Watch this space for celebratory events.

Reminder: New address. (For those of you who have not yet changed our address in your systems, here it is again).

15 East 26th Street
Suite 1801
New York, New York 10010

Applied Actuarial Research Conference: 

Lotter Actuarial Partners is a sponsor of the forthcoming Applied Actuarial Research Conference, March 8-9 in Orlando. There is still time to submit expressions of interest to present papers, or attend to learn more about applied research and research methods. 

Lotter Actuarial selected for Society of Actuaries' Health Section Council's Open Request For Proposals.

Our proposal to conduct research into outcomes measurement has been accepted by the Society of Actuaries health section, which will be sponsoring and partially funding the research. Under the leadership of Ian Duncan, other researchers include Henry Dove, Ph.D. of Yale School of Public Health, and Rebecca Owen, Assistant Actuary at Highmark. 

The project is expected to be completed in three phases:
Phase 1 – Introduction to Care Management Interventions and their Actuarial Implications.
Phase 2 – Outcomes and Outcomes Measurement Methodologies.
Phase 3 – Practical application of different measurement methodologies.

Phase 1 is expected to be completed by the end of 2003, and results will be presented at the Actuarial Research and Methods conference (see above).

Industry Happenings:

First Actuarial Research and Methods conference: A conference of Actuarial practitioners and researchers, to be held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando is proposed for March 8-9, 2004. Conference Chairperson is Lijia Guo, Ph.D., head of the Actuarial Program at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Sessions will include healthcare research and applied data mining techniques. More information, including information about financial support, is available from: information@lotteract.com, or lguo@mail.ucf.edu.