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LinkedIn: Social Networking for
the Insurance Professional
By Claude Penland, Associate of the
Casualty Actuarial Societywww.ClaudePenland.com
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One
• LinkedIn is the most active professional
social network in the world.
• According to their press materials, they
have over 90 million members, with
roughly half of those members residing in
the United States.
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• If you are not a member of LinkedIn yet, I highlyrecommend joining the website to grow your own professional social network.
• If you are already a member, and you work ininsurance or reinsurance as an underwriter,accountant, actuary, risk manager, claims
professional, financial analyst, agent or other insurance role, this article will begin to list for yousome of the more active insurance-related jobs anddiscussion groups on LinkedIn.
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• If you search for “insurance” among LinkedIngroups, it returns over 5,000 groups.
• Risk, Regulation and Reporting is one of thelargest LinkedIn groups. Insurance topics covered by its members include European insuranceregulations (Solvency II), international accountingstandards (IAS), international financial reportingstandards (IFRS), asset-liability management, risk management, regulatory issues, governance andcompliance. I also recommend their Solvency II and US Insurance subgroups.
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• Discussions at the Global Insurance
Professionals group recently included
catastrophe risk , marketing strategies,insurance startups, emerging risks and
appropriate workplace behavior.
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• Not to be confused with “Global InsuranceProfessionals”, Insurance Professionals invites
producers, underwriters, risk managers, claims personnel, actuarial analysts and others to discuss pricing, insurance careers, coverage questions,network security, customer service, small businessadvice and other topics.
• Property and Casualty and Life and Health subgroups cover more specific line of businesstopics.
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• The subgroup Insurance Professionals has
covered issues such as cold calling,
underwriting, European insurance startups,healthcare reform and capital modeling.
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• Global Insurance Network has a very broad
audience of brokers, risk managers, agents,
claims professionals, actuaries, reinsuranceemployees and others.
• Best ways to drive traffic to your insurance
blog, resume best practices, job huntingstrategies and six sigma methodologies are
some recent interesting discussions.
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• The Risk Management & Insurance Professionals
group actually requires insurance-related
experience in order to join.• Market trends, ratemaking, insurance coverage,
risk management, legal deposition handling,
policy structure, pandemic models and business
plans were some recently covered topics.
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• Insurance Industry Executives encompasses
almost 8,000 members in the life, health and
property and casualty insurance fields.
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• Reinsurance Insurance Professionals Worldwide is
the largest reinsurance-related group on LinkedIn.
• Reinsurance-related discussions there tend tocover contract negotiations and drafting, brokers,
excess layer considerations, startups and new
branch operations, insurance-linked securities,
Bermuda and European markets and job hunting.
• An Asian-specific subgroup recently launched as
well.
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Eleven
• Three additional LinkedIn groups
specifically designed for reinsurance
include Reinsurance Professionals,Reinsurance (from Postonline.co.uk ) and
the U.S. Reinsurance Under 40s group.
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Twelve
• Those interested in insurance-linked
securities, including industry loss
warranties, surplus notes, securitizationsand catastrophe bonds, are directed to ILS –
Insurance Linked Securities, Insurance
Linked Securities and the subgroupInsurance Linked Securities.
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Thirteen
• If you work specifically with workers
compensation insurance, like-minded
insurance professionals are members at theWork Comp Analysis Group. Safety, risk
management and HR professionals are also
welcome.• See also the WorkCompCentral and
Workers Compensation Roundtable groups.
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• Confluence (Insurance professionals &
Insurance recruiters) is an outstanding
group with eclectic conversation.• Career advice (underwriting, financial and
actuarial careers were recent topics),
brokerage and software-related jobs, insider trading, product sales and business
development are often discussed.
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Fifteen
• Insurance Marketing Professionals group is
devoted to direct and insurance brokerage
distribution and marketing, while InsuranceProduct Management is lightning-focused
on insurance product analysts, product
developers and product managers.
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• The Managed Care Connections group
covers healthcare marketing, sales,
operations, accounting, healthcareeconomics, product development, finance,
underwriting, actuarial work,
pharmaceutical and case management.
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Seventeen
• Global Health Economics Network has close to
5,000 members.
• Those looking for additional healthcare economicsgroups could also look at The Healthcare Strategy
Innovation and Management Group and
Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Medical
Economics, and Medical Economics; each grouphas about 1,000 members.
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Eighteen
• The Risk and Insurance Management Society
(RIMS) group is focused on risk management, and
is peppered with risk managers, engineers,consultants, underwriters, actuaries, project
managers and financial analysts from around the
world.
• Another very active risk management group is the17,000+ strong Risk Managers group.
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Nineteen
• Claims professionals can discuss adjusting,
careers, management and operations at the
P&C Claims Professionals group.• See also the Insurance Claims Professionals
and Claims Management groups.
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• Vehicle telematics is the integrated use of telecommunications and informatics applied toroad vehicles.
• Those professionals working in telematicsinterested in networking, insurance applications,vehicle tracking, fleet management, remotediagnostics and toll charging are directed to theTelematics group.
• There are also the Telematics Update andInsurance-Telematics groups.
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Twenty-one
• For insurance agents, there is Insurance Agents’
Opportunities For Success.
• The Health Executives Network is for healthinsurance professionals such as brokers, benefit
consultants, underwriters, producers, analysts
(financial, accounting, actuary), vendors and
others.
• Also check out National Association of Health
Underwriters (NAHU).
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• And, finally, see Insurance Professionals of
America, with 4,000 members, including
auditors, supervisors, underwriters,marketing and actuarial professionals.
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Twenty-three
• Insurance professionals interested in
discussing Solvency II European insurance
regulations are encouraged to check outFinancial Risk Management Network ,
Solvency 2 Experts Group, Solvency II
CEIOPS subgroup, Solvency II EuropeanInsurance Regulations – SolvencyDeux.com
and Solvency ii Association.
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Twenty-four
• Social media best practices, marketing and
promotion for insurance and reinsurance
professionals are covered at Social Media 4Insurance and Social Media – Insurance and
Reinsurance.
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Twenty-five
• Four groups to inform those looking to learn about
insurance-linked securities include ILS –
Insurance Linked Securities, Insurance LinkedSecurities, Trading Risk and Insurance Linked
Securities subgroup.
• Recent topics have been industry loss warranties,
surplus notes, catastrophe bonds, casualtysecuritizations, sidecars, reinsurers and hedge
funds.
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Twenty-six
• Casualty actuaries can chat at Casualty
Actuarial Society group.
• Life, health, investment and pensionactuaries can discuss topics for the actuary
at the Society of Actuaries group.
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Twenty-seven
• Insurance mergers and acquisitions are
discussed at Insurance Mergers and
Acquisitions – WhoBoughtWho.com andInsurance Mergers and Acquisitions Group.
• Takaful (Islamic insurance) is covered by
Islamic Finance – Takaful & Pensions,Takaful and Retakaful News and Trends –
TakafulMe.com and Takaful groups.
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Twenty-eight
• Insurance accounting is addressed at
Insurance Accounting & Finance, while
insurance law is discussed at InsuranceLegal/Compliance Professionals.
• Also see www.ClaudePenland.com
• Thank you!