The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) selected four universities to receive the 2021 CAS University Award, an honor created to celebrate universities that share our commitment to fostering the development of the next generation of property and casualty actuaries. As announced in June, the schools honored in the program’s sixth year are Arizona State University, Brigham …
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CAS Fellows Janet G. Lindstrom and Katy J. Bradica have been included in Insurance Business’s Elite Women 2021, the magazine’s annual list of distinguished women in insurance. This list recognizes businesswomen for their achievements and initiatives in 2021 and highlights their professional accomplishments and contributions to the industry. An influencer and change-maker in the insurance …
Dear Editor: I recently re-read the article “The Importance of Pronouns: A Nonbinary Actuarial Analyst’s Perspective” by Arius Johnson, after hearing concerns about the “political” nature of the article. I would encourage everyone to do the same and judge for themselves whether this is truly a public policy article, as I suspect that doing so …
Mallika Bender, FCAS, MAAA, has joined the Casualty Actuarial Society as its first Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) staff actuary. Bender has worked for GEICO, QBE North America and Suncorp Insurance in Sydney, Australia, and most recently served as a consultant for Willis Towers Watson. She brings over a decade of experience supporting DE&I initiatives, …
After the murder of George Floyd, the International Association of Black Actuaries (IABA) hosted a listening session for Black actuaries, and I listened. I listened to stories that sounded like they belonged to another age and time. I listened to stories so subtle that, if you chose to, you could ignore the subtext. Not long …
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President-Elect Nominee Roosevelt Mosley FCAS 1999 I am excited to continue my service to the CAS as we advance our position as leaders in analytics and in diversity, equity and inclusion. My professional career and years of service to the CAS have prepared me to lead during this time of evolution and change. It is …
The actuarial community has been lauded for its generous volunteer spirit and steadfast commitment to serving those in need. Through The Actuarial Foundation (TAF), one of the profession’s means for giving back, many CAS members have demonstrated their commitment to creating possibilities for underserved teachers and students by volunteering their time and making financial contributions …
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Dear Editor: CAS leadership is unnecessarily walking on divisive political public policy ground. Our beloved CAS should prohibit leaders from taking positions on divisive political-moral-social issues and enforce our constitution. The board of directors’ political public policy decisions need formal, meaningful membership interaction. The AR published a transgender pronouns article. The AR editor puts (she/her) …
It is a delicate balance to ensure that property-casualty insurance products properly address longstanding, systemic, racial inequities, actuaries were told in a virtual general session, “Spotlight on Race and Insurance,” at the CAS Spring Meeting in May. Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt outlined efforts by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to develop tools …
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