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Barry Rabkin
Senior Research Analyst, Insurance Practice
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Barry Rabkin is a senior analyst in the Insurance Service. Rabkin brings over three decades of experience in the insurance industry, both from working within the industry and experience as a management consultant to and analyst of the industry. Rabkin’s analysis focuses on the strategic implications of technology’s impact on the insurance industry.
Industry Expertise
In the industry, Rabkin was involved with marketing projects across all major lines of insurance with carriers that include John Hancock, The Hartford, Aetna Life & Casualty, and the Phoenix Companies. Major themes were developing and using customer information systems, market segmentation, distribution channel analysis and business intelligence. As a management consultant his engagements ranged from strategy and scenario planning to marketing and product development to business process redesign. As an analyst of the industry, Rabkin has focused on the implications of applying technology to insurance industry structure, strategy and marketing, and business operations.
Background
Prior to joining Financial Insights, Rabkin worked for Arthur D. Little, IBM Global Services, and BearingPoint. He launched the Insurance Research retainer service at The META group where he focused his analysis on e-commerce, virtual insurance companies and CRM. After leaving The META Group, Mr. Rabkin started his own company, Market Insight Group, Ltd. Offering independent analytical insurance industry insight to both insurers and technology providers. He then joined Advisen, Ltd. as Managing Editor writing reports on management liability issues.
Education and Industry Affiliations
Rabkin received a double BS in Mathematics and English from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a Masters of Science in Applied Mathematics from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Rabkin has been a columnist and a free-lance writer for the National Underwriter. He also has written for Best’s Review, Technology Decisions, and LOMA’s Resource Magazine. Rabkin is also a frequent speaker at insurance industry conferences.
Research Authored by Barry Rabkin
Financial Services: Crisis of Confidence
Patricia McGinnis, Aaron McPherson, Jeanne Capachin, Sean O'Dowd, Barry Rabkin, Dana Wiklund
October, 2008 - Doc # FIN_0550
Event Proceeding
David Potterton, Global VP of Research led the discussion surrounding the global perspective on the current financial crisis, it's implications for Banking, Capital Markets, and Insurance along with t...
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Fight or Flight: The New Face of Banking and Its Impact on Spending
Abhishek Kumar, Aaron McPherson, Rachel Hunt, Sean O'Dowd, Angeline Lee, Peter Farley, Trevor LaFleche, Dana Wiklund, Rob Burbach, Jeanne Capachin, Marc DeCastro, Karen Massey, Barry Rabkin, Patricia McGinnis, Ted Dangson
October, 2008 - Doc # FIBA55Q
Perspective
George Soros states that we are at the end of the accepted paradigm that financial markets tend towards equilibrium and that active involvement from government is required to avoid the boom and bust c...
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 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Takeover: A Short-Term Solution in an Industry with Longer-Term Issues
Dana Wiklund, Aaron McPherson, Dana Gould, Jeanne Capachin, Patricia McGinnis, Marc DeCastro, Karen Massey, Sean O'Dowd, Barry Rabkin
September, 2008 - Doc # FIN214221
Perspective
This Financial Insights Perspective reviews the takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by the Federal Finance Housing Agency. "A perfect storm" has hit the U.S. mortgage industry. This...
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Irrational Exuberance Turns to Irrational Despair: Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers
Dana Wiklund, Dana Gould, Jeanne Capachin, Marc DeCastro, Karen Massey, Sean O'Dowd, Barry Rabkin, Ted Dangson
September, 2008 - Doc # FIN214345
Perspective
This Financial Insights Perspective provides the FinSights Advisor's weekly perspective on the financial services industry. It provides financial institutions with timely guidance about maximizing one...
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Surfing the Demographic Waves: Will Financial Institutions "Hang Ten" or Wipe Out?
Barry Rabkin, Aaron McPherson, Dana Wiklund, Dana Gould, Jeanne Capachin, Karen Massey, Marc DeCastro, Patricia McGinnis, Sean O'Dowd, Robert Burbach, Bill Bradway
September, 2008 - Doc # FIN214057
Perspective
This Financial Insights Perspective provides the FinSights Advisor's weekly perspective on the financial services industry. It provides financial institutions with timely guidance about maximizing one...
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Frameworks to Develop Spatial Perspectives of the Insurance Value Chain
Barry Rabkin, David Sonnen
September, 2008 - Doc # FIN214141
Market Overview
This Financial Insights report provides property and casualty and life and annuity insurers with a toolkit to develop a strong sense of place. This toolkit includes framework, select known and potenti...
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North American Insurance Industry 2Q08 Update: On the Precipice
Barry Rabkin, Robert Burbach
September, 2008 - Doc # FIN213985
Quarterly Update
This Financial Insights update reviews the events and trends of the second quarter of 2008 that have affected the North American insurance industry.
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With P&L Results All Over the Map, What Can Bankers Do About IT Costs?
Bill Bradway, Jeanne Capachin, Barry Rabkin, Patricia McGinnis, Dana Gould, Marc DeCastro, Karen Massey, Robert Burbach
August, 2008 - Doc # FIN213738
Perspective
This Financial Insights Perspective provides the FinSights Advisor's weekly perspective on the financial services industry. It provides financial institutions with timely guidance about maximizing one...
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Class of 2008 Up and Coming Insurance Technology Firms
Barry Rabkin
August, 2008 - Doc # FIN_0538
Event Proceeding
This webinar identified the Class of 2008 and highlighted specific technology vendors, their strategic objectives, market footprint and approach to product development and deployment as well as Financ...
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Beyond the Traditional Short List: Up and Coming Property and Casualty Insurance Technology Firms Class of 2008
Barry Rabkin
August, 2008 - Doc # FIN213323
Market Overview
This Financial Insights report is the first in a series of annual reports that profile a group of selected up and coming (U&C) technology firms that support the insurance industry. In future years, Fi...
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