Research Opportunities

Opportunities & Open Calls

Research Grants
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute's Committee on Knowledge Extension Research (CKER) announce the 2025 Individual Grant Competition.
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) is pleased to announce its individual grant research recipients for 2024. They…
Calls for Papers
The CAS has released its 2024 Fall E-Forum that contains Reserves Call Papers on the topic of “Technology and the Reserving Actuary.”
The Casualty Actuarial Society’s (CAS) Ratemaking Working Group is issuing a call for papers regarding technological applications for ratemaking to publish clear, practical and accessible papers for actuaries.
Request for Proposals
Proposals for Presentations are due no later than June 10, 2024
The CAS Ratemaking Working Group is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking research related to the development of scaling laws in pure premium models for use in the ratemaking process.
Quick Start Research Form
The Casualty Actuarial Society’s new “Quick Start” Research Grant Program provides a quick and easy proposal and approval process to expediate funding for projects requiring timely research. Potential funding for qualifying research can be up to $50,000.

Here’s how the process works:

- Complete and submit the research proposal.
- After submission, the appropriate CAS research working group will review the application with the goal of making an acceptance decision within six weeks.
- When the researcher(s) and a review team agree on the final specific deliverables and deadlines, the research commences. The research will undergo the CAS credibility-building peer review process.
- Upon research completion, the project is submitted for publication in Variance or E-Forum, or as a Monograph or Research Paper.

The CAS research program offers several advantages to researchers, including:

- Publicly available research, which bolsters potential readership
- A rigorous and credibility building peer review process
- Datasets that include nearly four million earned exposures for confidential use
- A highly engaged open-source software community
- The future-forward requirement to provide code (when applicable) for peer review and open sourcing.