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The beginning of the actuarial profession in Canada can be dated to 1847, when the Canada Life Assurance Company was founded in Hamilton, Ontario, by Hugh Baker, who became a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1852. The federal Department of Insurance was established in 1875 and shortly thereafter recruited actuaries to its staff.
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An actuary is a professional with advanced mathematical skills who deals with the measurement and management of risk and uncertainty. [1]
As noted in the 27th Actuarial Report on the Canada Pension Plan, if one uses the "closed group approach", the plan has an enormous unfunded liability. As of December 31, 2015, the CPP's unfunded liability was $884 billion, which is the difference between its liabilities ($1.169 trillion) and its assets ($285 billion).
In 1932, Suttie moved to London to work as an office boy at the Northern Assurance Company while taking night classes. He became an actuary in 1940, and from 1946 to 1949 worked for the Royal Mutual Insurance Society. In 1949, Suttie and his wife moved to Canada where he took a post as an actuary with Equitable. [21]
The Society of Actuaries (SOA) is a global professional organization for actuaries. It was founded in 1949 as the merger of two major actuarial organizations in the United States: the Actuarial Society of America and the American Institute of Actuaries. [1] It is a full member organization of the International Actuarial Association. [2]
Actuaries in South Africa are served by the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA). Until 2010, the requirement to qualify as an actuary in South Africa was to pass the exams hosted by the UK bodies. Starting in 2010, a South African actuarial qualification hosted by ASSA has replaced this arrangement.
An enrolled actuary is an actuary enrolled by the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). [1] Enrolled actuaries, under regulations of the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor, perform a variety of tasks with respect to pension plans in the United States under ERISA.