Sunday, November 7, 2010

Importance to Society

  • They determine the likelyhood of certain types of events
  • Find ways to reduce unwanted events
  • Increase the effect of unwanted event that do end up occuring
  • Actuaries are the backbone to our society's financial security programs
  • The main thing that actuaries do to contribute to society is managing peoples risks so they do not have to worry about it

1 comment:

  1. This job seems pretty important considering I had no idea what it was in the first place. Does it project certain types of disasters or events, or just more general things? I never really thought of this type of profession before, it sound pretty interesting.

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