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The Casualty Actuarial Society is a professional organization whose purpose is the advancement of the body of knowledge of actuarial science applied to property, casualty, and similar risk exposures.
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Considerations for the Casualty Actuarial Profession in 2015
Thanks to all who posted comments about challenges over the last year. For review of the many responses that showed up on the CAS website I recommend you view the CAS Risk Management Committee’s (RMC) two previous blog posts: Challenges to the Actuarial Profession in 2014 and Threats to the Actuarial Profession (written in 2012). … Read more
Posted in Communications, Future of the Profession, Risk Management and tagged actuary, Actuary Job, CAS, Casualty Actuarial Society, Data Scientist, Risk Management.
Risk Premium Project II Database — A Valuable Research Resource
The Committee on Theory of Risk (COTOR) began the Risk Premium Project (RPP) in 2000 with RPP I, which represented an extensive, thorough, and up-to-date analysis of the theory and empirics of risk assessment for property-casualty insurance. Given the vast development in this field, the RPP II update extended the findings from RPP I with … Read more
Posted in Communications, Research, Risk Management and tagged Asset Pricing, Capital Allocation, CAPM, Catastrophe Risk, COTOR, Database, Reinsurance, Research, Risk Management, Risk Premium Project, RPP, RPP II.
Challenges to the Actuarial Profession in 2014
It has been quite a year for our profession. This year is even more promising as we turn 100 years old. CAS President, Wayne Fisher, mentioned in the January Actuarial Review that we are in an environment of change, so, there must be a vast amount of interesting things going on right now that maybe only … Read more
Threats to the Actuarial Profession
The CAS Risk Management Committee (RMC) is charged with: looking at known risks that affect the actuarial profession and the CAS, and making recommendations to the CAS Board as to which are important and what can be done about them. While the RMC’s focus has been on known risks, as practicing professional actuaries we also … Read more
Posted in Risk Management and tagged Risk Management.