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Actuary
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Actuary
A professional statistician working for an insurance company. They evaluate your application and medical records to project how long you will live.

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Actuaries are intensively educated and their knowledge is used in many different fields in order to predict future events based upon past occurences.


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Addressing the Casualty Actuarial Society Spring Meeting in Phoenix today, Pressman challenged the actuaries to help the industry reverse a trend of "self-inflicted cyclicality," stating "the good news is that because we inflict it on ourselves we know exactly how to alleviate it.
Actuaries specialize in the quantification and measurement of risk and contingent amounts.
He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, an Enrolled Actuary, a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, a member of the Des Moines Actuaries' Club, and a past president of the American Academy of Actuaries.
 
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