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Explore essential resources and activities designed to help you sharpen your skills and strengthen your practice.
Actuaries Longevity Illustrator
The Actuaries Longevity Illustrator provides personalized insights into your potential lifespan, helping you make financial choices to ensure you don’t outlive your savings.
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Social Security Challenge
Explore real-world reform ideas and test your problem-solving skills. Engage with different perspectives, create your own reform approach, and measure its impact on solvency.
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Actuaries Climate Index
The Actuaries Climate Index® (ACI) is an educational tool designed to help inform actuaries, public policymakers, and the general public about climate trends and some of the potential impacts of a changing climate on the United States and Canada.
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Resource Guide
The Academy has released a series of resources examining how the stability and enrollment of the individual and small group markets, large-group employer-sponsored health plans, and state Medicaid programs are interrelated and interdependent.
Learn MoreWe serve actuaries so they can serve our most important American institutions
Professionalism
The Academy fosters professionalism through its boards and committees, ensuring competency, integrity, objectivity, and public service for sound actuarial judgment, benefiting both the profession and the public.
Policy + Research
The Academy leverages public policy initiatives to apply actuarial principles to critical and emerging issues. It provides impartial expertise to decision-makers across various levels and champions the profession’s engagement in diverse fields.
Career + Education
The Academy supports actuaries in fulfilling their U.S. Qualification Standards for Continuing Education with webinars, seminars, and other learning opportunities. Additionally, it provides resources to help members network
and pursue career advancement opportunities.