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While pricing for natural catastrophe exposed property insurance has many of the aspects of normal property pricing, the catastrophe element does add some challenges. For example, a company’s risk appetite has a significant impact on how they price for catastrophe risk. This session will discuss the basic elements of catastrophe pricing, why cat models were developed and why they are important, and conclude with a discussion around capital and risk management and their relationship with pricing.
The tech industry has never been more important, along with the need for actuaries. Many CAS members are transitioning from traditional roles to roles at large technology companies or startups. To highlight our members’ innovations in the tech space, the CAS is launching our very own Actuaries in Tech Month! This campaign is the fourth in our “Actuaries in…” series, following #ActuariesinCOMMUNITY, #ActuariesinMUSIC and #ActuariesinPOP.
Sponsored by: CAS and CIA
The Casualty Actuarial Society and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries are pleased to offer their first joint virtual Climate Risk Seminar, July 19-21, 2022, from 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM ET. This event brings together experts in climate risk across a variety of disciplines and geographies. This 3-day virtual seminar features four sessions per day, each consisting of a presentation and engaging discussions with speakers and other attendees.
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) has received 12 awards across three association award programs for exemplary work completed in 2021. The three programs include the EXCEL Awards, TRENDY Awards and Communicator Awards.
CAS CEO Victor Carter-Bey said, "The CAS is exceptionally proud to be recognized for our dedication, creativity and innovation in the field by receiving these 12 industry awards."
The complete listing of awards includes:
The Asia Region Casualty Actuaries (ARECA), the Casualty Actuarial Society's Regional Affiliate in Asia, is pleased to announce its new leadership for 2022. Jeremy Lian, FCAS, Senior VP, Technical Services at MSIG Singapore, will succeed Jin Wang, FCAS, as the new President of ARECA. Jeremy’s President message can be found here.
Other updates include:
Registration is now open for the October/November 2022 CAS Exam Sitting, for exams MAS-I, MAS-II, 5, 6-Canada, 6-International, 6-US and 8. The registration deadline is October 7, 2022 at 11:59 PM ET. For exam dates and additional information, visit the exam registration page.
A new paper has been published on the Variance website:
“Security Posture-Based Incident Forecasting” by Dagmawi Mulugeta, Ben Goodman, and Steven Weber
This paper presents a method of utilizing machine learning to conduct security posture-based forecasting which offers certain improvements over current methods of establishing the probability of cybersecurity incidents.
CAS members are invited to attend the 2022 Annual Meeting of the International Association of Black Actuaries (IABA), scheduled for August 11 - 13, 2022 at The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans.
The meeting is open to all who support IABA’s mission to contribute to an increase in the number of black actuaries and to influence the successful career development, civic growth and achievement of black actuaries.
The meeting allows attendees to earn CE credits from professional development sessions on cutting-edge topics, including:
This intensive bootcamp features lectures, group Capstone Projects and time for individual engagement with our instructors. This course will give the attendee an introduction to the R programming language, with the objective of preparing attendees to be able to apply what they've learned upon completion of the course. To that end, the focus is on direct, interactive content delivery.
Attendance is limited to 16 participants, individual registrations only. Group registrations are not permitted.
Registration for October/November exams will open on July 5, 2022. For exam dates and more information, visit the Registration webpage.
The Actuarial Standards Board (ASB) of the American Academy of Actuaries approved an exposure draft of a revision of Actuarial Standard of Practice (ASOP) No. 20, now titled Discounting of Property/Casualty Claim Estimates. The ASOP applies to actuaries when performing actuarial services that involve the discounting of claim estimates for property/casualty coverages to a present value.
This webinar is 90 minutes.
This webinar is complimentary to non-North American audiences in the CAS.
This webinar will address COVID and pandemic modelling as a new area for actuaries to consider across varied practice areas. It will attempt to analyse and understand the factors influencing COVID outcomes in different parts of the world by comparing examples in UK and some sub-saharan African countries. The webinar will cover the basics of disease spread modelling, its data needs and how to incorporate assumptions to use for scenario modelling.
PLEASE NOTE: This webinar has been moved from May 24 to September 29, 2022.
The pet insurance market in the United States has been growing fast for years and this market growth was accelerated in 2020 by the "pandemic puppy boom". But, the profitability of pet insurance carriers has been underwhelming recently due to high levels of veterinary services inflation, escalating loss cost trends and expanding care demands of pet owners.
At CNA we are building a next-generation data and analytics foundation as part of our transformation to an AI-driven Insurance organization. The key pillars of this transformation include:
