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Actuaries
The Northlines
|May 19, 2025
Actuaries are risk experts. They use their mathematical skills to help measure the probability and risk of future events, juggling complex data and making sense of it to inform business decisions. Useful to many industries where a single decision can have a major financial impact, this creates a great demand for actuaries’ skills throughout the financial sector. While the traditional areas of life insurance and pensions are still at the heart of the actuarial profession, general insurance, investment and risk management are seeing very strong growth, indeed general insurance is now the second most popular area for the student base.
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Apart from an understanding of how businesses operate, strong technical skills are crucial to succeed in this industry. Even more important is the ability to communicat
This story is from the May 19, 2025 edition of The Northlines.
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