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About Us
Leadership by the Professionals at Oakley E. Van Slyke, Inc.
Oakley E. Van Slyke, Inc., and its affiliate,
Capital Management Technology (sm), have proven leadership in providing clients
with the financial implications of future contingent events.
Oakley E. Van Slyke, Inc., is an actuarial and
management consulting firm based in Southern California. The firm was founded in 1991.
Key engagements since 1991 include:
- Valuing reinsurance contracts for the Transit Casualty Insurance Company in Receivership
- Creation of the Qestrel Companies, reinsurers and claims managers for the personal
auto insurance industry
- Implementation of a Markov model of the workers compensation claims process.
Markov models of claims processes offer many insights into claim management and the
ultimate cost of a portfolio of claims.
- Creation of West Comp Insurance Services, Inc., of Lake Forest, CA.
West Comp is the state of the art in efficient commercial lines sales and policy processing.
Software and Algorithms for Loss Reserving
- LRT: Loss Reserve Testing Software
- Oakley E. Van Slyke and Giuseppe Russo, "Loss Reserve Testing: Beyond Popular Methods,"
Journal of Actuarial Practice (accepted March, 1999; not yet published)
(co-authored by Rob Weber of Weber Actuarial Consulting)
- Van Slyke, "A Clearer Focus on the Future: The Risks and Rewards of Loss Reserve Testing,"
Contingencies, September/October, 1997
- Ratemaking Seminars (various): Presentations on simple models of the loss development process
- Van Slyke developed econometric (non-linear regression) models of loss development triangles (1975-1976)
Regulatory Concerns and Insurer Responses
- Paper "Regulatory Standards for Reserves,"
Casualty Actuarial Society discussion paper, 1987
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