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Promoting the Profession

Timeline – Our History: How Actuaries Have Turned Risk
Into Opportunity

How did actuaries become the leading risk experts? This interactive timeline, created by North American actuarial organizations, celebrates the profession’s key milestones and provides examples of ways that actuaries have shaped business, political and societal trends throughout the history of the profession. Explore this interactive timeline and learn more about the events that have made the profession what it is today.

Explaining the Role of the Profession. And our value. Have you ever been in a professional conversation with a peer or run into a C-suite member and wished that you knew the best way to explain exactly what it is that actuaries do and how it benefits today’s businesses?

This Scenario Planning tool outlines a variety of situations where these types of questions may come up, and provides sample ways to talk about your work and the profession. You certainly don’t need to use these answers verbatim, but hopefully they’ll give you some new ideas about ways you can quickly highlight your credentials and the unique role actuaries play in today’s business world.


   

Actuaries in the News

Potential Pandemic Still Could Cost Nearly $300 Billion FromWorkforce Management This article cites SOA research on pandemics.

N.J. Patients Deserve to Know Health Care Costs Before Getting the Bill From NJToday.net The SOA's survey on Bending the Cost Curve was noted in this article on health care costs.

RiskChat: Paying Attention to Compensation From BigFatFinanceBlog Karen deToro, FSA, MAAA, was featured in an interview on incentive compensation.

Study Puts Cost of Medical Errors at $19.5 Billion From Wall Street Journal Jim Toole, FSA, CERA, MAAA, is quoted in this article about the SOA study on medical errors.

The Cost of Medical Errors From Nightly Business Report Jim Toole, FSA, CERA, MAAA, appeared in this Aug. 9, 2010 episode on the cost of medical errors. Note: the segment begins 8:50 into the video.