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Wanted: Actuary with Predictive Modeling Experience
Does your actuarial training make you attractive to employers looking for someone to join their predictive analytics team? Why would they hire you over, say, a PhD in statistics? This was an important...
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Why Should the CAS Exist?
At a CAS Board meeting last August, Board Member Jessica Leong posed a strategic question: “Why does the CAS exist?” Leong told the Board about author Simon Sinek’s TED Talk inspired by his book,...
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CAS Centennial Projects Recognized for Excellence
For any organization, paying tribute to 100 years of history can seem a daunting task. It will come as no surprise that the celebration of the CAS’s centennial year – culminating in the CAS Centennial...
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Collaboration with Competitors — What Do We Stand to Gain? What Might We Lose?
Whether we like it or not, the environment for the Casualty Actuarial Society and its members is changing. One might paint different pictures of these environmental changes. One picture might be a...
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U.S. Wins Math Olympiad for First Time in 21 Years – Team Proudly Supported...
Clifford Pence, FCAS, with American Mathematics Competition honorees. For the first time in 21 years, the United States won one of the most intensive math competitions in the world, the International...
View ArticleConsiderations for the Casualty Actuarial Profession in 2015
Thanks to all who posted comments about challenges over the last year. For review of the many responses that showed up on the CAS website I recommend you view the CAS Risk Management Committee’s (RMC)...
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#CAStyourballot – Vote in the CAS Elections
Did you know: Only one-third of all eligible voters cast a ballot each year in the CAS elections? This year, with only two weeks to go, just 20% have voted. As an organization, I am confident that we...
View ArticleFirst CAS Interactive Live Stream Event a Resounding Success
This year, the Casualty Actuarial Society introduced live streaming to our professional education events. The live streaming format was piloted at the 2015 Casualty Loss Reserves Seminar (CLRS) in...
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Access Resources to Advance Your Technical Skills
Big Data has officially arrived, and it’s changing the way business works, including actuarial science, wrote David Zornek, an actuarial consultant at Oliver Wyman, in the most recent issue of the...
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Reflections from the CAS Staff Actuary: The First Two Weeks
It is a real and sincere honor to be the CAS’s first staff actuary. The creation of such a position has been considered and discussed over the years, but only last year did the CAS Board vote to...
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