Actuaries do data better

An actuary brings the rigour, ethics, acumen and innovation you need to ensure your team extracts maximum value from data science and AI. As a profession, we’ve been practicing our evolving craft in Australia for 125 years. Hear from actuaries on how they do data better.

Do automation better

Listen to our conversation with Jon Shen, Data Analytics Leader, to see how actuaries can help you do automation better. 

In the intelligent application of data lies the potential to make faster more accurate decisions, at scale.  And as advancements in technology, smart-networking and IoT converge, the opportunity for automation has never been greater.  But when deploying AI, you need true human intelligence to maximise value and minimise the risk of unintended consequences.

Do ESG better

Hear from Ramona Meyricke, Director at Taylor Fry, on how you can do ESG better with an actuary.

Innovation with data promises to enhance governance and solve many of the world’s great social and environmental challenges.  Ensuring that insurance and pensions provide, assessing climate risks or enhancing supply chain efficiency, with an actuary in your team, you’ll do ESG better. 

Navigating uncertainty

Actuaries have been trained to solve problems in the face of uncertainty.

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John Shen, FIAA, Data Science Actuary, AI Practice Executive - Strategy & Governance

Do customer experience better

See how Justin Tam, Data Analyst at Canva, does customer experience better as an actuary.

With an actuary in your team, you’ll do customer experience better, combining a granular understanding of customer needs and behaviours with predictive and prescriptive analytics and commercial intelligence.  It’s a powerful blend that harnesses the powerful potential of data for the benefit of customers and companies alike.

Do decision insight better 

Discover how Ada Tong, Product Director – Domain Insight, does decision insight better as an actuary. 

Actuaries have pioneered customer- and asset-specific pricing and valuation strategies for more than 20 years, innovating rigorous end-to-end valuation, risk assessment and governance processes in insurance before moving into new markets, such as banking, property retail, consumer goods, and energy.     With an actuary in your team, you’ll do pricing and valuation better – surfacing actionable decision insight with less risk while working with a professional who is obliged by professional standards to consider the community impacts. 

Do innovation better 

Find out how Robbie Baskin utilised his actuarial training to co-found Australia’s first deposit booster, FrontYa.

Australia’s smartest innovators are deploying data to reimagine every corner of our economy at the heart of Australia’s most entrepreneurial businesses.  Actuarial training is grounded in innovation techniques aligned to human-centred design and agile development.  With an actuary in your team, you’ll do innovation better, reimagining ways of working, creating new categories and collapsing the status quo. 

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