University of CAS—Reaching out Globally

The CAS is committed to offering convenient and affordable continuing education to the global actuarial community. To satisfy our goal of providing services with a global perspective, The University of CAS (UCAS) will continue to offer resources with an international focus from our past meetings, seminars and webinars. The CAS has also introduced engaging, creative and interactive online courses on topics that are important to casualty actuaries around the world.

Available now are two interactive online courses titled “Understanding CAS Discipline Wherever You Practice” and “Introduction to Predictive Modeling.” The CAS will soon unveil two new course series called “Statistics for Reserve Variability” and “Introduction to R.” These two topics will be presented as a multicourse series with a hands-on approach and will be available later in 2015.

Many resources within the University of CAS have topics with a broad appeal, and many recordings are available that would be beneficial to the international community.

Highlight of Sessions:

• AR-1: Improving Actuarial Reserve Analysis Through Claim-Level Predictive Analytics (2014 CLRS)
• R-3: Complexities in Reinsurance Reserving (2014 CLRS)
• C-2: Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change (2014 Reinsurance)
• C-16: Model Risk: No More Pretending (2014 Reinsurance)
• C-26: Emerging Issues: Fracking and Other Energy-Related Risks (2014 Reinsurance)
• PL-2: Pricing Analytics for the Small and Mid-Sized Insurance Companies (2014 RPM)
• PM-12: And the Winner is…? How to Pick a Better Model (2014 RPM)

The various resources can be found within the CAS learning management system at www.casact.org/UCAS.