The Educational Content of the CAS Syllabus

This report has been prepared by the Long Range Planning Subcommittee of the Syllabus Committee at the request of the Board of Directors of the CAS. The purpose is to evaluate the educational content of the syllabus from the standpoint of the educational needs of future actuaries. The subcommittee has been reviewing Syllabus content for several years in terms of a long range comprehensive plan for educating actuaries. The subcommittee was expanded for this project to include a representative of the Educational Policy Committee. In addition, the Report reflects comments from the full Syllabus Committee. The report draws upon the results of the CAS Membership Survey in evaluating the current Syllabus and subjects which were identified by the survey for inclusion in the Syllabus. The subcommittee is also indebted to Michael Walters and John Muetterties for their thoughtful discussions of future educational directions as presented in recent articles in the Actuarial Review and The Actuarial Undate, respectively. The committee has incorporated some ideas from recent discussions of “the actuary of the future”.