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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, Volume 100 - April 1974

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Research Article

  • The Past and Future Development of the Consulting Actuary's Work

  • D. F. Gilley
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    18 August 2016, pp. 71-107

  • Confident prediction of the future course of events is work for astrologers who have either a belief in their own powers which no analysis of past results can undermine, or a gullible clientele which is sufficiently large to make forecasting worthwhile. It is the business of the actuary, as a scientist, to base judgments on an analysis of past events and trends and, as a professional man, to see to it that the gullible are not imposed upon.

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