Actuarial Notes develops educational resources and tools to support actuaries in applying their knowledge and skills to problems of emerging risks in climate change and artificial intelligence.
Hi, my name is Jordan and in the summer of 2023 I started Actuarial Notes from a small apartment in downtown Toronto. Following the shock of the pandemic, I wanted to understand the rising systemic risk in our economy and what could be done about it.
The question that concerned me was how can we bring issues of emerging risk in climate change and artificial intelligence to the tables where financing decisions are made?
Our mission is to empower actuaries to learn about these topics and to take action by including environmental, social, and governance factors into actuarial decision-making.
Our values
Integrity starts with me, and you.
Integrity is deeply personal. It means honest decisions and acting in line with one’s values. For Actuarial Notes as a developer and publisher of educational resources, integrity means being transparent about our incentives and commitments, so that you can understand our biases.
Be helpful.
To fulfill our mission, our work should be helpful to actuaries. That’s why we listen to your feedback – so that we can learn what’s working for you, and what’s not.
Accessibility helps everyone.
Accessibility is at the center of our mission to empower actuaries. It means communicating in a way that is personalized to the needs of an individual person. Our goal is to build products and services that are accessible by design.
Collaborate openly.
Diversity in thought, experiences, and knowledge is foundational to good decisions. It helps decisions because it challenges blindspots and sees beyond an individual’s horizon. Collaboration is about listening, improvising, disagreeing, and building together.
Our goals
Create an actuarial learning platform.
Create spaces for community.
Build a risk management tool.
Build a tool that implements a risk management workflow in a way that’s easy, fun, and collaborative.
Design a collaborative decision-making tool.
Develop the requirements for a system where people can collaborate and make risk-informed decisions together.