Social Networking for Insurance Professionals on LinkedIn, Part Five,by Claude PenlandActuarial Analysts, Underwriters, Financial Analysts, Product Analysts, Lawyers: Where Do They Go?

(read more at http://www.claudepenland.com/2011/02/14/social-networking-for-insurance-professionals-on-linkedin-part-five/ )

This is Part Five of a series of essays on social networking for insurance professionals on LinkedIn. (See Parts One, Two, Three and Four.)

Insurance professionals interested in discussing Solvency II European insurance regulations are encouraged to check out Financial Risk Management Network, Solvency 2 Experts Group, Solvency II CEIOPS subgroup, Solvency II European Insurance Regulations – SolvencyDeux.com and Solvency ii Association.

Social media best practices, marketing and promotion for insurance and reinsurance professionals are covered at Social Media 4 Insurance and Social Media – Insurance and Reinsurance.

Four groups to inform those looking to learn about insurance-linked securities include ILS – Insurance Linked Securities, Insurance Linked Securities, Trading Risk and Insurance Linked Securities subgroup. Recent topics have been industry loss warranties, surplus notes, catastrophe bonds, casualty securitizations, sidecars, reinsurers and hedge funds.

Casualty actuaries can chat at Casualty Actuarial Society group. Life, health, investment and pension actuaries can discuss topics for the actuary at the Society of Actuaries group.

Insurance mergers and acquisitions are discussed at Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions – WhoBoughtWho.com and Insurance 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.

Insurance accounting is addressed at Insurance Accounting & Finance, while insurance law is discussed at Insurance Legal/Compliance Professionals.