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Analyze statistical data, such as mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates and construct probability tables to forecast risk and liability for payment of future benefits. May ascertain insurance rates required and cash reserves necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.
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This source lists 15 tasks, including 12 marked Core and 3 marked Supplemental. Labels and dates are retained below. Employers can combine or divide these responsibilities differently; explore the task itself before assuming it belongs in every version of the role.
Task source dates: 08/2026.
15 tasks shown
Core · Task 24015 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Analyze data to determine premium rates required and cash reserves and liabilities necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.
Core · Task 3501 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Analyze statistical information to estimate mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates.
Core · Task 3502 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Design, review, and help administer insurance, annuity and pension plans, determining financial soundness and calculating premiums.
Core · Task 3503 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Collaborate with programmers, underwriters, accounts, claims experts, and senior management to help companies develop plans for new lines of business or improvements to existing business.
Core · Task 3506 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Provide advice to clients on a contract basis, working as a consultant.
Core · Task 3504 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Determine, or help determine, company policy, and explain complex technical matters to company executives, government officials, shareholders, policyholders, or the public.
Core · Task 3508 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Construct probability tables for events such as fires, natural disasters, and unemployment, based on analysis of statistical data and other pertinent information.
Core · Task 3512 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Determine equitable basis for distributing surplus earnings under participating insurance and annuity contracts in mutual companies.
Core · Task 3509 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Determine policy contract provisions for each type of insurance.
Core · Task 3511 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Provide expertise to help financial institutions manage risks and maximize returns associated with investment products or credit offerings.
Core · Task 20951 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Negotiate terms and conditions of reinsurance with other companies.
Core · Task 3505 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Testify before public agencies on proposed legislation affecting businesses.
Supplemental · Task 3513 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Explain changes in contract provisions to customers.
Supplemental · Task 3510 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Manage credit and help price corporate security offerings.
Supplemental · Task 3507 · 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Testify in court as expert witness or to provide legal evidence on matters such as the value of potential lifetime earnings of a person disabled or killed in an accident.
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