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The Casualty Actuarial Society invites you to be a part of an exciting seminar for the spring of 2023. The 2023 Ratemaking, Product and Modeling Seminar (RPM) Working Group is soliciting your submission of proposals for presentations at the upcoming event scheduled for March 13 - 15, 2023 in San Diego, CA

The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) is pleased to announce that eight university students have been selected as recipients of the 2022 CAS Trust Scholarship! This honor was created to further students’ interest in the property and casualty actuarial profession and encourage the pursuit of the CAS designations.

The Casualty Actuarial Society, Canadian Institute of Actuaries, and the Society of Actuaries Research Institute are pleased to make available results from the 2021 Emerging Risks Survey, the fifteenth in the series.

The Actuarial Standards Board of the American Academy of Actuaries approved an exposure draft of a proposed revision of Actuarial Standard of Practice (ASOP) No. 41, Actuarial Communications. The ASOP applies to actuaries when issuing actuarial communications in any form (written, electronic, or oral) within any practice area.

Registration is open for the annual CAS/AICT Joint Seminar, to be held virtually on September 15-16 (Taipei Time).

The Casualty Actuarial Society recently released a joint report examining China’s insurance trends. Co-sponsored with the Society of Actuaries and Canadian Institute of Actuaries, “China: An Era of Insurance Innovation,” highlights insurance trends in China, with a particular focus on topics that will drive the enterprise risk management (ERM) function of insurance companies.

Two new papers have been published on the Variance website.

The CAS is pleased to announce its inaugural “Hacktuary Challenge,” a contest designed to showcase the actuarial skill set in developing novel risk engineering solutions. The challenge offers a prize of $15,000 to the individual or group who develop an application that utilizes actuarial concepts to solve a pressing risk management problem related to personal auto insurance. The target platform of the application is open — it may be deployed as a mobile app, an interactive web site, a desktop application, or some other means. The only deployment criteria are that it be publicly available and feature interactive elements.

Last month, Mallika Bender, FCAS, MAAA, was featured in the Conference of Consulting Actuaries (CCA) Leadership Development Interview Series.