Ratemaking

The Casualty Actuarial Society’s (CAS) Ratemaking Working Group is issuing a call for papers regarding technological applications for ratemaking to publish clear, practical and accessible papers for actuaries.
We are still seeking your help finalizing our exam grading rosters for this sitting, specifically for these exams:

Exam 5: Basic Ratemaking and Estimating Claims Liabilities,
Exam 6U: Regulation and Financial Reporting (US)
Exam 7: Estimating Liabilities, Valuation, and ERM
Exam 9 Financial Risk and Rate of Return.
The Casualty Actuarial Society yesterday announced the winners of the first-ever CAS Hacktuary Challenge, a contest designed to showcase the actuarial skill set in developing novel risk engineering solutions. Entrants were challenged to create an end-user application that would be actuarially grounded but address a risk management problem of relevance to a typical consumer. The challenge also required that all code for the application be made publicly available on the CAS’s GitHub site.
In the spirit of Cyber Monday, the CAS is offering a 25% off one-day-only discount on select 2022 seminar/meeting recordings and special bundles. This deal is only available for the day of: November 28, 2022.
A new Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) Research Paper provides the first detailed road map for understanding and quantifying the impact of wildfire mitigation on homeowners insurance premiums. Catastrophe Models for Wildfire Mitigation: Quantifying Credits and Benefits to Homeowners and Communities explores the need for catastrophe models to perform the quantification of mitigation efforts, outlines actuarial considerations and approaches for developing wildfire mitigation premium credits, and describes challenges in obtaining data and implementing mitigation premium credits.
The CAS is pleased to release the Winter 2022 E-Forum, which includes a report of the CAS Machine Learning Working Party titled “Machine Learning in Insurance.” This edition also features two submissions in response to the 2021 Call for Ratemaking Essays, conducted by the CAS Ratemaking Working Group.
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Ratemaking Working Group (RMWG) is pleased to extend a call for discussion papers on ratemaking topics, with a goal to facilitate the publication of accessible and practical papers on ratemaking topics.
A new paper has been published on the Variance website: “Recommender Systems for Insurance Marketing” by Giorgio Alfredo Spedicato and Giuseppe Savino.