Funder: Casualty Actuarial Society
Due Dates (Anticipated): February 2027 (Proposals) | March 2027 (First draft) | April 2027 (Second draft) | May 2027 (Final paper)
Funding Amounts: $15,000 total cash-prize fund for papers making strong contributions to reinsurance literature
Summary: Supports practical research and tools that improve reinsurance pricing methods and advance standardization.
Key Information: CAS members and non-members may submit; submissions should use open-source software and avoid commercial product promotion.
Description
The Casualty Actuarial Society’s Reinsurance Working Group runs this call for papers to develop clear, practical, accessible research for actuaries working with sparse data and substantial modeling uncertainty. It welcomes proposals on any reinsurance-related matter, with particular interest in synthetic or generative case studies that support practical application.
Priorities include experience rating, limit drift, loss trending, loss development factors, rate changes, and signal reserves. Broader topics include loss volatility and uncertainty, correlations, common shocks, contagion, and collateralized reinsurance pricing. Practical data guidelines and model templates are also encouraged. The program pairs authors with reviewers to develop papers for publication in the CAS E-Forum and offers cash prizes for particularly strong contributions to reinsurance literature.
