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With consulting practices in property and casualty, life insurance/financial services, employee benefits and healthcare, Milliman serves the full spectrum of business, financial, government, and union organizations. Founded in Seattle in 1947 as Milliman & Robertson, we currently have 47 offices in principal cities in the United States and worldwide and employ more than 2,000 people, including a professional staff of more than 900 qualified consultants and actuaries. Milliman’s property and casualty practice is one of the largest in the world. Our consultants have extensive experience in all aspects of property and casualty risk, as well as a deep understanding of both the technical and business aspects of the industry. We develop and deliver customized solutions, providing clients with expert independent advice. In addition to actuarial specialists, we offer highly qualified professionals in economics, claims management, underwriting management, business continuity planning, and operations improvement.

Towers Perrin is a global professional services firm that helps organizations around the world optimize performance through effective people, risk and financial management. The firm provides innovative solutions to client issues in the areas of human resource strategy, design, and management; actuarial and management consulting to the financial services industry; and reinsurance intermediary services. Through its Tillinghast business, Towers Perrin provides global actuarial and management consulting to insurance and financial services companies and advises other organizations on risk financing and self-insurance. The firm’s other businesses include HR Services and Reinsurance. For more information, visit www.towersperrin.com.

RenaissanceRe was established in Bermuda in 1993 to write property catastrophe reinsurance. The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange in July 1995 and is traded under the ticker symbol “RNR.” Our business is divided into two reportable segments:

1. Reinsurance, written by Renaissance Reinsurance, Da Vinci, and our Ventures unit
2. Individual Risk, written by the Glencoe Group

By remaining true to our founding philosophies, we have become one of the world’s largest and most respected catastrophe reinsurers through:
• Careful and disciplined risk selection,
• Prudent capital management,
• Opportunistic entry into dislocated markets,
• Exceptional client service, and
• Leadership in the use of information technology.

Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC is the world’s leading risk and reinsurance specialist and a part of the Marsh & McLennan companies. Guy Carpenter creates and executes reinsurance and risk management solutions for clients worldwide through 2,600 professionals across the globe. The Guy Carpenter approach combines the consultative expertise in our 16 Specialty Practices, the dedicated global facultative capabilities of GCFacTM and a rigorous focus on account servicing. In addition, Guy Carpenter’s Instrat® unit utilizes industry-leading quantitative skills and modeling tools that optimize the reinsurance decision-making process and help make the firm’s clients more successful. Guy Carpenter’s website address is www.guycarp.com.

Variance: Advancing the Science of Risk is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Casualty Actuarial Society to disseminate work of interest to risk professionals worldwide. Articles will focus on original practical and theoretical research in non-life actuarial science and related areas in the science of risk. The much anticipated inaugural issue of Variance will be published in June 2007. Request your complimentary copy of the first issue, submit a paper for publication, and learn more about Variance by visiting www.VarianceJournal.org.

Erie Insurance Group was founded in 1925 as a Pennsylvania auto insurer. Since that time the company has grown to become a multiline insurance company, offering auto, home, commercial and life insurance through a network of independent insurance agents. Today, ERIE’s geographic presence extends to 11 states and the District of Columbia. From New York to North Carolina and from Wisconsin to Tennessee, employees and agents continue to carry out ERIE’s founding purpose: “To provide our policyholders with as near perfect protection, as near perfect service as is humanly possible and to do so at the lowest possible cost.” According to A.M. Best Company, Erie Insurance Group is the 15th largest automobile insurer in the United States based on direct premiums written and the 22nd largest property/casualty insurer in the United States based on total lines net premium written. The Group, rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best Company, has almost 3.8 million policies in force. Erie Insurance Group ranked 421 on the FORTUNE 500 and Erie Indemnity Company is included in Forbes Magazine’s PLATINUM 400 list of the best-managed companies in America.