Re: Journal of Actuarial Practice?
KATHY GILE ( kgecorp@ix.netcom.com )
Tue, 05 Aug 1997 18:28:26 -0500
Regina Berens wrote:
>
> I know that the North American Actuarial Journal is sponsored by the SOA
> and don't want to re-start the thread we had on that subject a few months
> back- but what is the Journal of Actuarial Practice? I got a letter from
> them inviting me to submit a paper and all I know is that it's published by
> Absalom Press in Nebraska.
>
> Is there a university behind it? Who's sponsoring it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regina Berens
> MBA, Inc.- Consultants in Casualty Actuarial Science
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MBAInc
As others have noted, the Journal of Actuarial Practice is edited
by Colin Ramsay, a professor at Nebraska. It has also been noted that
a good percentage of the papers are on P/C topics and are aimed at
PRACTICAL use. Naturally, the actual usefulness varies from paper to
paper, but I think it does a better job in this respect than do the
PCAS, TSA (especially!) or its new successor, NAAJ.
The Journal IS a refereed journal. My disclosure: I have published
one paper with the Journal on a P/C topic, have refereed several
on P/C topics, am an FSA doing P/C work for the last 10 years,
and am not a member of the CAS.
I think this Journal is an excellent alternative for both SOA and
CAS members to submit papers in subject matter in which they have
expertise.
The link to the Journal is
http://www.cba.unl.edu/main2/pubs/joap/joap.html