Redington Prize Nominations Due May 9, 2011

The Investment Section Council is now seeking nominations for the next Redington Prize for the best paper written on an investment-related topic. The biennial prize promotes investment research and $2,000 is awarded to the author of the chosen paper. The prize is sponsored by the Investment Section and is named after F. M. Redington, the eminent British Actuary who coined the term "immunization" in a 1952 paper that was published in the Journal of the Institute of Actuaries.

The criteria for selection are as follows:

Publication Years: The paper must have been published during the calendar years 2006–2009.

Author: A member of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) must have written the paper. In the case of a paper with multiple authors, a member of the SOA must be a major contributor to the paper.

Content: The topic must be judged to be timely, primarily of investment nature and of substantial value to SOA members.

Source: The paper may appear in any recognized SOA format, including North American Actuarial Journal, Transactions, ARCH, study notes and section newsletters. The paper may appear in nonactuarial journals or publications deemed to be of at least comparable quality by the Prize Committee. Such publications include, but are not limited to The Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. If the paper is a result of a SOA seminar or colloquium, it must have been published either in a conference book available to the membership or in an acceptable journal. The journals, books and newsletters should have been published within the years of 2006–2009.

Judging: The selection criteria include investment content, originality, practical significance, timeliness, relevancy and educational value to the membership. A prize will be awarded only if the Prize Committee deems the best eligible work to be of sufficient merit to justify an award. Richard Faw, an Investment Section Council member, will chair the Prize Committee. The final decision for any award will rest with the Investment Section Council.

Submission: Papers must be submitted by Monday, May 9, 2011. Submission should be e-mailed to Jill Leprich at jleprich@soa.org.