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Exams 1, 2, and 3F
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Online Courses 1 and 2
The fee for Online Courses 1/CA1 and 2/CA2 includes one attempt at the exam by CBT. No refund for a course is provided once the candidate has accessed the online course. If the candidate decides not to access the online course after payment has been made, the candidate may submit a request for a refund. The request must be submitted to the Customer Success group at The Institutes.
This series of six lectures will give the attendee a broad introduction to the features of the R programming language most useful to actuaries, with the objective of preparing attendees to apply what they've learned in each lecture immediately in their work.
Attendance is limited to 35 participants, individual registrations only. Group registrations are not permitted.
New papers have been published on the Variance website:
“Robust Estimation of Loss Models for Truncated and Censored Severity Data” By Chudamani Poudyal and Vytaras Brazauskas
This paper explores comprehensive and robust estimation of claim-severity models in insurance industry, where data are affected by truncation, censoring, and scaling.
Deadline: October 28, 2022
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the CAS Reinsurance Research Working Group are pleased to extend a call for papers. The goal of this program is to facilitate the publication of clear, practical, accessible papers on reinsurance topics.
We are especially interested in papers which address:
An analysis of the impact of climate change on financial institution solvency, profitability, and other key performance metrics is, or is likely to be, required by financial regulators in most major economies in the very near future. Regulators are signaling that such impacts should be assessed through the use of scenario analysis, both qualitatively and quantitatively. This session will first provide an overview of the emerging regulatory landscape for insurers as it relates to the disclosure of climate risk.
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) is pleased to announce the winners for the 2022 Volunteer Awards.
The New Members Award is given annually to one or more members of the CAS who have made significant volunteer contributions within five years of their most recent credential.
Ryan Patterson has been expelled as a member of the Casualty Actuarial Society (“CAS”), effective June 30, 2022. The Discipline Committee Panel of the CAS, acting in accordance with the CAS Bylaws and Rules of Procedure for Disciplinary Actions and with consideration of the findings from the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline, voted unanimously to expel Mr. Patterson for materially violating Precept 1 of the Code of Professional Conduct.
A new paper has been published on the Variance website:
“Required Sample Size in Capital Modeling” By Yingjie Zhang
Required sample size is calculated for accurately estimating VaR and TVaR. Simulated investment loss and cat loss have different shape and tail behavior, which leads to different required sample sizes.
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Candidate Representative application deadline extended to Thursday, October 20, 2022.
The CAS Research Paper “Defining Discrimination in Insurance” by Kudakwashe F. Chibanda, FCAS, has been revised from the original posted on March 31, 2022. The revision corrects Figure 5, “Process for Determining Disparate Impact.” See errata for details.
While enterprise risk management (ERM) in North America was once limited to only five risk categories, it has since evolved into a complex ecosystem of risk. A new report jointly published by the Casualty Actuarial Society, Canadian Institute of Actuaries and Society of Actuaries focuses on ERM in Canada and the U.S.
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. This year’s awardees are Neil Bhardwaja, Jacob Heit, Gabriel Morin, Caitlyn Nielson, Gavin Rublewski, Celeste Trevino, Jabari Washington and Trisha Vazquez.
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The CAS Board is inviting all members to complete a survey on membership engagement in the CAS to better understand how members want to engage with CAS leadership on our strategic direction. The survey was designed by a Board working group formed to focus on engagement, and the input received will guide the Board in considering additional opportunities for engaging the CAS membership in the future.
Registration for the October/November 2022 CAS Exams MAS-I, MAS-II, 5, 6-Canada, 6-International, 6-US and 8 will close on October 7, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
The Trustees for the Casualty Actuarial Society Trust are pleased to announce that Red Mountain Technologies has donated $6,500 to the CAS Trust to support scholarships for the next generation of property and casualty actuaries. The CAS Trust is a 501(c)(3) non-profit providing scholarships and research grants in furtherance of the Casualty Actuarial Society’s mission to advance actuarial science.
The International Association of Black Actuaries (IABA) has selected Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) President-Elect Roosevelt Mosley Jr., FCAS, CSPA, MAAA, as one the recipients of its prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.
