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Actuarial credentialing and exams

In Denmark it normally takes five years of study at the University of Copenhagen to become an actuary with no professional experience requirement.

Actuarial exam

In the US the term "Enrolled Actuary" is applied to an individual who has taken certain exams sponsored by the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries relating to pension plans.

Alan Truscott

That marriage was dissolved 1971 (Hiron) and in 1972 he married the American bridge expert and internationalist Dorothy Hayden, born Johnson, a former math teacher and actuary, who had four children from two previous marriages.

Athanasios Angelopoulos

He has been honoured with the title of the Archon Actuary of the Holy in Christ Great Mother Church, by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople; the award of the Academy of Athens, in 1980; and with awards and prizes from churches, states and institutes.

Equity Funding

The Billion Dollar Bubble - the Equity Funding scandal retold in the form of a movie starring James Woods in the role of the actuary

Holger Thiele

Holger Thiele was the son of Thorvald Nicolai Thiele, the noted Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, after whom the Asteroid belt 1586 Thiele is named.

Ivo Lah

Ivo Lah (also known as Ivan Lah; Štrukljeva Vas near Cerknica, Austria-Hungary, now Slovenia, September 5, 1896 – March 23, 1979, Ljubljana, SFR Yugoslavia, now Slovenia) was a Slovenian mathematician and actuary, best known for his discovery of the Lah numbers in 1955.

John Finlayson

John Finlaison (born John Finlayson, 1783–1860), Scottish government actuary, first president of the Institute of Actuaries

Medicare Part D

Medicare boss Thomas Scully, who threatened to fire Medicare Chief Actuary Richard Foster if he reported how much the bill would actually cost, was negotiating for a new job as a pharmaceutical lobbyist as the bill was working through Congress.

MigrationWatch UK

Giving evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee in January 2006 he quoted an internal e-mail by a member of staff at the Home Office, which stated "I have made this point many times before, but can we please stop saying that Migration Watch migration forecasts are wrong. I have pointed out before that Migration Watch assumptions are often below the Government Actuary Department's high-migration scenario".

Morris Birkbeck Pell

Morris Birkbeck Pell (31 March 1827, Albion, Illinois, USA — 7 May 1879, Glebe, New South Wales, Australia) was an American-Australian mathematician, academic, government advisor, lawyer and actuary.

Peter G. Moore

Peter Gerald Mooore TD FIA (5 April 1928 - 14 June 2010) was a British soldier, actuary, academic and statistician.

Rupa Huq

Huq's father was training to become an actuary for Prudential, however gave it up to start an Indian restaurant in Soho, London.


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