actuary
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- noun
- /ˈaktʃuˌɛri/
- Specialized
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actuario
- An actuary uses complex statistical methods to assess risks for insurance companies.
- chief actuary
- insurance actuary
- consulting actuary
And the truth is, is that I, I'm not smarter than the actuaries that came up with those underwriting guidelines.
- And the truth is, is that I, I'm not smarter than the actuaries that came up with those underwriting guidelines.
- I was with an Uber driver in in Portland recently and she was going to school to be an insurance actuary.
Examples
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I believe I mentioned in my previous letter... that I was an actuary... at Woodmen of the World Insurance Company.
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The last actuary table I ran was on home electrical fires.
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- How you know all this? - I'm an actuary.
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But I'm not an expert in health policy, actuary issues, or tax issues.
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But I'm not an actuary, so I'm limited in my understanding of this one.
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On the eve of the Second World War, the youngest Polish actuary was 26 years old.
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I was an actuary.
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An insurance actuary?
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From time to time, I see the assumptions made by my fellow actuaries on the pension side, and wince.
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Insurance rates are determined by actuaries (and greedy CEOs, but that's another story.)
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Actuary comes from the Latin acta, meaning 'acts' or 'records', and it first meant a clerk who kept official papers. It shares the same root as act and action, so you can remember an actuary today as someone who uses records and numbers to work out financial risk.