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21 August 2006 · No Comments

You know that you work in a profession that not enough people know about that you get a special thrill on seeing it mentioned in the newspaper.

I’m in New York tonight ahead of a Monday morning meeting. While checking in at my hotel, I see the front page of the New York Times:

The chief actuary, Robert C. North, has prepared a little-noticed set of alternative calculations showing that the gap in the [New York City] pension funds could be as wide as $49 billion. That is nearly the size of the city’s entire annual budget and the equivalent of the city’s publicly disclosed outstanding debt.

The word “actuary” actually appears in the dead tree edition of the paper in the sub-headline. Sadly, the online version of the story doesn’t repeat the phenomenon.

Tags: Actuarial