ADP Hubs
Yeah, you could say this Superbowl performer is from Atlanta because he moved here when he was 12
Who is Usher?
It makes perfect when you follow these detailed guidelines in your actuarial work (full name required)
What are Actuarial Standards of Practice?
The country where Mount Etna, Aetna's namesake & one of the world's most active volcanoes, is located
What is Italy?
The ultimate goal of Buddhism and an American rock band
What is Nirvana?
A discrete probability distribution that models a single trial with 2 possible outcomes (P)
What is Bernoulli?
This NHL team rebranded to the Carolina Hurricanes after playing for 25 years in an ADP hub
What is the Hartford Whalers?
This ASOP has an appropriate, accurate, and complete discussion of data quality
What is ASOP 23?
Aetna ended their merger with this health insurance company after being blocked in 2017
What is Humana?
A horse coat color pattern and part of the stage name of the most recent winner of the Grammy Award for Best New Artist
What is Roan?
The equation for the present value of a level payment of $1 in perpetuity (FM)
What is 1 divided by the interest rate?
This classic 80s comedy briefly features the Chicago office
What is Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
Candidates will discuss real-world case studies involving actuarial ethics in this invite-only ASA requirement
What is the Associateship Professionalism Course (APC)?
A wild cat and a WNBA team
What is a lynx?
A dimensionality reduction technique used to simplify complex datasets while preserving their essential information (SRM)
What is Principial Components Analysis (PCA)?
It's important to know the ABC(&D)s of actuarial ethics to avoid being investigated by this board established by the American Academy of Actuaries
What is the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline?
A pasta shape and a plot used to find the optimal number of clusters in k-means clustering (as found in exam PA!)
What is elbow?
A machine learning algorithm that uses an ensemble of decision trees (PA)
What is a random forest?
These 3 office locations are no longer ADP hubs
What are Falls Church (DC Metro), Concord (San Francisco Metro), and Overland Park (Kansas City Metro)? (will also accept Omaha or Phoenix)
Pursuant to ASOP 41, an actuarial communication should identify the party responsible for each ________ __________ ___ ______
What is Material Assumption and Method?
This is how Howell St. James, Aetna's first chief actuary, tragically died at the age of 90 on his way home from work
What is getting hit by a train?
The British term for a common beetle and a 2017 coming-of-age drama
What is Ladybird?
The 3 R's of risk mitigation under the ACA (GHDP)
What are Reinsurance, Risk corridors, and Risk adjustment?