Charles A. Hachemeister Prize

This prize was established in 1993 in recognition of Charles A. Hachemeister's many contributions to Actuarial Studies in Non-Life Insurance (ASTIN) and his efforts to establish a closer relationship between ASTIN and the CAS. ASTIN was created in 1957 as the first specialty section of the International Actuarial Association (IAA).
Papers published or presented in the calendar year prior to the award year are eligible for the prize, including:

  • Articles, workshop articles, and invited papers published in issues of the ASTIN Bulletin
  • Papers presented at the ASTIN Colloquium
  • International Actuarial Association Congress or Actuarial Approach for Financial Risks (AFIR) Colloquium papers

Papers will be judged by a specially appointed committee of the CAS.

In honor of Charles Hachemeister’s passion for connecting ASTIN’s primarily European-based membership to challenges faced by CAS members in North America, emphasis in selecting the prize-winning paper will be placed on the paper's impact for North American actuaries and practicality of application. If no paper is considered eligible in a given year, the award shall not be made. The committee's decision will be final.

The announcement of the award will be made annually at the CAS Spring or Annual Meeting.

The amount of the Charles A. Hachemeister Prize is currently $2,500.

Recipients of the Hachemeister Prize

2023

Benjamin Avanzi, Yanfeng Li, Bernard Wong, Alan Xian
Ensemble distributional forecasting for insurance loss reserving

2022

No Award

2021

Suguru Fujita, Toyoto Tanaka, Kenji Kondo, and Hirokazu Iwasawa
AGLM: A Hybrid Modeling Method of GLM and Data Science Techniques

2020

Ronald Richman
AI in Actuarial Science

2019

IFoA/CAS International Pricing Working Party
Analyzing the Disconnect Between the Reinsurance Submission and Global Underwriters’ Needs

2018

Glenn Myers
A Cost of Capital Risk Margin Formula For Non-Life Insurance Liabilities

AND

Peng Shi and Kun Shi
Territorial Risk Classification Using Spatially Dependent Frequency-Severity Models

2017

Benjamin Avanzi, Greg Taylor, and Bernard Wong
Correlations Between Insurance Lines of Business: An Illusion or a Real Phenomenon? Some Methodological Considerations

2016

Anas Abdallah, Jean-Philippe Boucher, and Hélène Cossette
Modeling Dependence between Loss Triangles with Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas

2015

George H. Zanjani and Daniel Bauer
The Marginal Cost of Risk in a Multi-Period Risk Model

2014

Michael Fackler
Reinventing Pareto: Fits for Both Small and Large Losses

2013

Christophe Dutang, Stéphane Loisel, and Hansjoerg Albrecher
A Game-Theoretic Approach to Non-Life Insurance Markets

2012

Yichun Chi and Ken Seng Tan
Optimal Reinsurance Under VaR and CVaR Risk Measures: A Simplified Approach

2011

Robert S. Miccolis and David E. Heppen
A Practical Approach to Risk Margins and the Measurement of Insurance Liabilities for Property and Casualty (General Insurance) under Developing International Financial Reporting Standards

2010

Edward W. Frees, Peng Shi, and Emiliano A. Valdez
Actuarial Applications of a Hierarchical Insurance Claims Model

2009

Thomas Mack
The Prediction Error of Bornhuetter/Ferguson

2008

Thomas Wright
A General Framework for Forecasting Numbers of Claims

2007

Emmanuel Bardis, Christina Gwilliam, Stephen P. Lowe, and Atul Malhotra
Considerations Regarding Standards of Materiality in Estimates of Outstanding Liabilities

2006

William H. Panning,
Measuring Loss Reserve Uncertainty

2005

Jon Holtan,
"Pragmatic Insurance Option Pricing"

2004

Donald F. Mango,
"Capital Consumption: An Alternative Method for Pricing Reinsurance"

2003

Shaun S. Wang,
"A Universal Framework for Pricing Financial and Insurance Risks"

2002

Nicholas E. Frangos and Spyridon D. Vrontos,
"Design of Optimal Bonus-Malus Systems with a Frequency and a Severity Component on an Individual Basis in Automobile Insurance"

2001

Morton Lane
Pricing Risk Transfer Transactions

2000

Uwe Schmock,
"Estimating the Value of the WinCAT Coupons of the Winterthur Insurance Convertible Bond: A Study of the Model Risk"

1999

No Award

1998

James A. Tilley,
"The Securitization of Catastrophic Property Risks"

1997

Stephen P. Lowe and James N. Stanard,
"An Integrated Dynamic Financial Analysis and Decision Support System for a Property Catastropher Reinsurer"

1996

Gregory C. Taylor,
"Modeling Mortgage Insurance Claims Experience: A Case Study"

1995

Michel Laparra, Isabelle Lion, and Christian Partrat,
"Design and Analysis of Market Prices Indices for the U.S. Natural Catastrophe Excess Reinsurance Treaties"

1994

Dr. Thomas Mack,
"Which Stochastic Model is Underlying the Chain Ladder Method?"