Factor In Your Expertise: Write for the CAS

This August, we're asking: what do you know that the profession should hear?

There's a home for your work no matter what form it takes.

Actuarial Review: for the storyteller

Actuarial Review (AR) is the magazine of the CAS: practical, timely and read across the profession in print and online. If you have a perspective on where the industry is heading, a lesson from your practice area or a topic you can make accessible to a broad P&C audience, AR wants to hear from you.

Email your ideas to AR@casact.org.

CAS Forum: for the practitioner

The CAS Forum is where working ideas live: practical methods, emerging approaches and research that doesn't need to wait for formal peer review to be useful. If you've built something your peers could apply tomorrow, the CAS Forum is the fastest path from your desk to theirs.

Submit your work to the CAS Forum.

Variance: for the researcher

Variance is the peer-reviewed research journal of the CAS: rigorous, citable and foundational to the profession's advancement. If your work pushes the science of P&C actuarial practice forward, Variance is where it belongs.

Learn about submitting a paper to Variance.

And here's something many members don't know: reading CAS publications can count as continuing education too. CAS members can qualify for CE credit by reading articles in Variance, CAS Forum and AR. So even before you write, engaging with the research strengthens your expertise and your credential. Learn more about how reading may apply to your CE.

Research Proposals: for the question-asker

You don't need a finished paper to Factor In your expertise. CAS members can help shape the profession's research agenda by proposing new research through the Quick Start Grant Program, responding to Requests for Proposals or answering Calls for Papers. If there's a question you think the profession should be exploring, there are ways to help get that work started.

You can also contribute directly to evolving CAS resources. The CAS AI Primer, updated quarterly, welcomes contributors who want to help keep practical guidance current on one of the profession's fastest-moving topics.

Get started: Visit the research opportunities page

Research Review: for the collaborator

CAS research depends on members who evaluate proposals, review papers and help shape calls for research. It's work that's every bit as valuable as authoring and a meaningful way to Factor In your talents without drafting a manuscript.

Most research project reviewers join one of the seven CAS research working groups, where members guide the direction of new research and review submissions in their practice area.

Get involved: Learn more about research working groups

However you do it: write, propose, review or contribute, your expertise is a factor. Make it count.