actuary
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He got a job as an actuary working for a life insurer and later became a sales agent and broker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Alan had worked as a landscape gardener before launching a training and life-coaching business, while Katie was an actuary, or risk assessor, for a financial firm.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund, which pays out retiree and survivor benefits, is expected to be depleted by the fourth quarter of 2032, according to Social Security’s chief actuary.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026
The flood map “does not reflect all hazards,” said Andy Neal, who spent 15 years as the NFIP’s chief actuary before moving to insurance broker Aon in 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
The actuary of the Sun Life Assurance Office used these statistics as the basis of the well-known "Carlisle Table of Mortality."
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See by C. King Eley
That would guarantee the system’s solvency into the 2060s, the actuaries calculated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
This year it’s 4.42%, the biggest one-year jump in recent memory, driven mostly by Americans having fewer children than the actuaries assumed.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
But even if the projections had been accurate, the actuaries and policymakers in the early 1980s knew that more tax increases or benefit cuts would be needed down the road.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026
CMS staff actuaries calculate expected growth rates for costs, and the numbers came in below what many analysts had expected this time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
One of the Yorkshire actuaries of the Penny Bank tells the following anecdote as conveying a lesson of perseverance and encouragement to branch managers.
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
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