Billy Beane

We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?

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Konnie Huq

My dad moved to Britain from Bangladesh in the 1960s to work as an actuary for Prudential. However, after seeing an empty retail space in Soho, he decided to open an Asian restaurant instead, despite not having any business experience.

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Actuary is a specialized career in finance and statistics, not a general role.

Specific Occupation

An actuary commonly works with insurance companies to forecast financial outcomes.

Insurance Industry

An actuary uses math and statistics to perform their job, it's a highly technical field.

Mathematics Required

 so that people who are doing things that had a higher cost of catastrophe would have to take insurance against that risk. So if you wanted to put a drug on the market you could put it on. But it wouldn't have to be approved by regulators; you'd have to convince an actuary that it would be safe.