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Issue No. 49 | October 2013
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Issue No. 49 October 2013. Letter From The Chair. Letter From The Editors. Analytics And The Analytical Insurer. Cloud Computing For Actuaries - IaaS, PaaS, SaaS What Do These Mean And Why Do I Care? R The Right Choice For Analytics? Reminiscences Of A Prophet Operator. DSLR: The DSLR Novice Seeks To Be The Excel Artist. GPUs: How We Went From Zombie Blood Splatter To Financial Projections. Joe Wurzburger, Staff Partner. Beth Bernardi, SOA Staff Partner. Jane Lesch, SOA Section Specialist. Assumption tab...
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A Blog for the Entry Level Actuary - The Actuarial Playbook
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Hack The Actuarial Job Market. Find your first actuarial job the smart way. Conversation with an Actuary: The Most Effective Interview Prep in Just 20 Minutes. For those of you pursuing an actuarial career, how much do you actually know about the line of work you are hoping to join? Sure, you know the basics, but if you were pressed for specifics how would you respond? The solution to this issue is quick, free, and so obvious that you’ll wonder why you didn’t think of it before: talk to a real actuary.
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A Blog for the Entry Level Actuary - The Actuarial Playbook
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Hack The Actuarial Job Market. Find your first actuarial job the smart way. Finding Your First Actuary Job: How To Play The Numbers Game. Like any job search, finding an actuarial position is a numbers game. You have some (small) chance of being hired by a given company. After that, there are two ways to increase your odds of getting hired. The first, of course, is to learn new skills or improve your resume, etc. the second is to vastly increase the number of companies you are talking to. 4 Keep the e-ma...
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A Blog for the Entry Level Actuary - The Actuarial Playbook
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Hack The Actuarial Job Market. Find your first actuarial job the smart way. Assessing the Entry Level Actuarial Market: How Can You Gain an Edge? Get out there and start hustling. 2 Companies don’t need to use recruiters for entry-level positions. Understand that recruiters are paid a significant chunk of the starting salary of anyone they present that gets hired. So why would a company waste $10,000 bringing you in when they can find hundreds of other qualified applicants for free? 3 Unless you are some...
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References « Actuarially Sound
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8212;———————Seeing the world through the eyes of an actuary————————. Http:/ www.soa.org/. 8211; Society of Actuaries main website. The governing body of Life, Health, Pensions and Investment actuaries. Http:/ www.casact.org/. 8211; Casualty Actuarial Society main website. The governing body of Property and Casualty actuaries. Don’t ask me why there are two separate governing bodies, it’s a long story. Http:/ www.beanactuary.org/. Http:/ www.actuarialstartup.com/. Http:/ www.actuarialoutpost.com/. We team...
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Actuarial Exam Study Blog | Always Studying for the SOA/CAS Exams
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Actuarial Exam Study Blog. Always Studying for the SOA/CAS Exams. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. October 31, 2015. Here is my latest program for calculating the prices of options using a multi-period binomial tree. It works, but represents a bunch of strange methods to solve unexpected problems. First, take a look at my output:. Here is a chart of the above data:. Finally, here is the code:. Calculates price of European call or put option, and portfolio required to duplicate option,.
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A Blog for the Entry Level Actuary - The Actuarial Playbook
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Hack The Actuarial Job Market. Find your first actuarial job the smart way. Finding Your First Actuary Job: How To Play The Numbers Game. Like any job search, finding an actuarial position is a numbers game. You have some (small) chance of being hired by a given company. After that, there are two ways to increase your odds of getting hired. The first, of course, is to learn new skills or improve your resume, etc. the second is to vastly increase the number of companies you are talking to. 4 Keep the e-ma...
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A Blog for the Entry Level Actuary - The Actuarial Playbook
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Hack The Actuarial Job Market. Find your first actuarial job the smart way. Cold E-mail Success Story: How an Entry-Level Actuary Changed Her Fate. To get a complete picture of the process she went through, let's take a look at our e-mail exchanges (with any identifying information removed), followed by my advice at each step. I've been applying to stuff for the past month or so now, but haven't had much luck with hearing back on anything. Do you have any recommendations as far as job hunting goes? Just ...
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