Ask an Actuary:
We've asked actuaries to describe the path that led them to an actuarial career. For this installment, our featured actuary is Joy-Ann Payne, ACAS, Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting. Every actuary finds out about the profession in their own unique way. For Joy-Ann, it happened to be a chance discussion with her doctor about possible career choices.
As she says "the rest is history."
In The News:
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2012-2013 Actuarial Foundation Scholarship Applications Now Being Accepted
The Actuarial Foundation is now accepting scholarship applications for the 2012-2013 academic year. The Actuarial Foundation supports the future of the actuarial profession and fosters the best and brightest students through four major scholarships. -
ASNA Winter 2012 Newsletter
The Actuarial Students National Association, an organization for Canadian actuarial students, has released its Winter 2012 newsletter with a focus on giving an inside view to the non-traditional side of the actuarial world. Read the newsletter to learn about the Convention in Niagara, different areas of actuarial work and upcoming events. -
Actuary on List of Best Careers for 2012
According to the career experts at Monster.com, Actuary is one of the best careers for 2012. They write, “Aside from being well-paying, these jobs – whose unemployment levels are lower than the current national average -- are expected to grow in demand in the coming years.” Read more at Monster.com. -
Reassuring News for Actuarial Science
According to some experts, Canada's jobs market is still facing a difficult time, with 54,000 jobs being lost in October alone, a blow that put the country's unemployment level at 7.3 percent. However, there is reassuring news for anybody in the actuarial profession: a new report from the U.S. says that 100 percent of the country's actuarial science graduates find a job. -
Summer Program at Lebanon Valley College
Actuarial Science: Math for fun and profit
A residential program for exceptional high school students who have completed 9th, 10th or 11th grade.
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Future Fellows, December 2011
Future Fellows is a quarterly newsletter for candidates of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS). Included in this Issue: The Evolving CAS Exam, Taking a New Look at Exam Length, the 2012 CAS Trust Scholarship Program, CAS Course on Professionalism and much, much more!
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If you've thoroughly exhausted BeAnActuary.org and you're looking for more details about the life of an actuary, then: 1. you've found your calling and 2. check out the web sites of the Casualty Actuarial Society and Society of Actuaries.