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.
Fast-forward three years, and this question has drawn together a small community of actuaries and risk professionals with the shared goal of bringing discussion to urgent issues of emerging risk in climate, artificial intelligence (AI), and social responsibility in insurance and finance.
Our mission is to empower you to take action in your roles. Learn about these topics and how to integrate environmental and social factors into your 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 publisher, integrity means that we’re transparent about our incentives and commitments, so that you can understand our biases.
Be helpful.
Accessible is good for 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 and freely.
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 a study tool.
Create spaces for community.
Create physical and digital spaces for students and professionals of actuarial science and risk management to talk and learn from each other.
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.