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  1. Shaun Wang led a research project “The Financial Crisis and Lessons for Insurers” -- sponsored by the Society of Actuaries; he also delivered a Capitol Hill briefing on the research findings. This research project investigates how the subprime and the broader financial crises impact insurance companies’ asset portfolios and capital adequacy, as well as enterprise-wide risk management implications. 
  2. Tom Herget led the SOA’s Project Oversight Group for its 2008 study on the IASB’s insurance contract project and again for its 2010 successor. 
  3. Tom Herget serves as Chair of the Academy’s Solvency committee and leads its membership in determining and asserting positions on capital adequacy both nationally and internationally. 
  4. Shaun Wang authored “Risk Intelligence” in the March 2009 Risk Management Newsletter. This article discusses how companies can go beyond risk modeling and collect risk intelligence to guide business decisions.
  5. Wang co-authored with Dr. Robert Klein on a paper “Catastrophe Risk Financing in the United States and the European Union: A Comparison of Alternative Regulatory Approaches,” published in the June 2009 Journal of Risk and Insurance. 
  6. Shaun Wang co-authored with Robert Faber on a research paper in 2006 entitled “Enterprise Risk Management for Property-Casualty Insurance Companies” which looks at the major ERM issues facing property-casualty insurers.
  7. Shaun Wang has been awarded U.S. Patent Number: 7,315,842. Patent issue date: January 1, 2008. Patent Title: “Computer System and Method for Pricing Financial and Insurance Risks with Historically- Known or Computer-Generated Probability Distributions” 
  8. Tom Herget was co-editor of the SOA text, Insurance Industry Mergers & Acquisitions. Since its publication in 2005, it has sold 2,000 copies world-wide. 
  9. Shaun Wang is recipient of the 2004 Ronald Ferguson Prize in Reinsurance, the 2003 Inaugural Bob Alting von Geusau Memorial Prize by the International Actuarial Association, the 2003 Charles A. Hachemeister Prize, and the 1997 Best Paper Prize at the Casualty Actuarial Society Ratemaking Seminar. 
  10. Tom Herget was editor-in-chief of the SOA text, US GAAP for Life Insurers. The first edition, released in 2000, and the second edition, published in 2006, have landed on the desks of over 9,000 professionals around the world.