Actuary Business Cards for ASA, FSA, and FCAS Credentialed Professionals

Actuaries are the quantitative risk professionals who use advanced mathematics, statistics, probability theory, and financial modeling to analyze and manage financial uncertainty — pricing insurance products, establishing reserves for insurance liabilities, modeling the cost of employee benefit programs, assessing catastrophic and operational risk, and providing the foundational risk analysis that enables insurance companies, pension funds, healthcare systems, and financial institutions to remain solvent and competitive.

What Actuary Cards Include

Your Credentials

SOA (Society of Actuaries) credentials:

• ASA (Associate of the Society of Actuaries) — SOA associate-level designation; requires passing the preliminary exams (P, FM, FAM, ALTAM or ASTAM, FAMS) plus professional requirements
• FSA (Fellow of the Society of Actuaries) — SOA highest designation; requires ASA plus passing a fellowship track (Life and Annuities, Health, Finance/ERM, Group and Health, Retirement Benefits) and the associateship professionalism course (APC)
• SOA specialty tracks:
• FSA in Life and Annuities
• FSA in Health
• FSA in Finance/ERM (Enterprise Risk Management)
• FSA in Group Benefits
• FSA in Retirement Benefits

CAS (Casualty Actuarial Society) credentials:

• ACAS (Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society) — CAS associate-level designation; focuses on property-casualty insurance
• FCAS (Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society) — CAS highest designation; the standard credential for P&C actuaries
• CAS specialty areas:
• Personal lines (auto, homeowners)
• Commercial lines (commercial auto, workers compensation, general liability, property, umbrella)
• Reinsurance
• Catastrophe modeling

MAAA (Member, American Academy of Actuaries) — the US professional organization for actuaries of all practice areas; required for signing certain actuarial opinions; "MAAA" often appears alongside SOA/CAS designations

EA (Enrolled Actuary) — JBEA (Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries); required to sign Schedule B (actuarial valuation) for qualified pension plans under ERISA; essential for pension actuaries

CERA (Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary) — SOA specialty credential in Enterprise Risk Management; recognition of ERM expertise

FCA (Fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries) — CCA; for independent consulting actuaries

Your Practice Areas

Property and Casualty (P&C):

• Personal auto insurance pricing and reserving
• Homeowners insurance
• Workers compensation
• Commercial liability (GL, products liability, professional liability, cyber)
• Commercial property
• Reinsurance (excess of loss, proportional, catastrophe XL)
• Catastrophe modeling (RMS, AIR, CoreLogic)
• Loss reserve development (chain ladder, Bornhuetter-Ferguson)
• Rate filings and DOI regulatory compliance

Life and Annuities:

• Term, whole life, universal life pricing
• Variable annuity pricing and risk management (GMIB, GMDB, GMWB)
• Individual disability income insurance
• Pricing and valuation
• AG43 / VM-21 stochastic modeling
• Principle-Based Reserving (PBR)

Health:

• Individual and group health insurance pricing
• ACA (Affordable Care Act) compliance pricing
• Medicare Advantage bid pricing
• Pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) analysis
• Healthcare cost trend analysis
• IBNR (Incurred But Not Reported) reserve estimation
• Managed care capitation rates

Retirement and Pension:

• Defined benefit (DB) pension plan actuarial valuations
• Enrolled Actuary services (Schedule B, PBGC filings)
• GASB 67/68 governmental pension accounting
• ASC 715 corporate pension accounting
• Defined contribution (DC) plan design
• QDRO analysis
• De-risking strategy (annuity buyout, lump sum windows)

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM):

• Economic capital modeling
• ORSA (Own Risk and Solvency Assessment) — insurance regulatory requirement
• Stress testing and scenario analysis
• Model risk governance
• ERM framework development

Financial / Investment:

• Life reinsurance structuring
• Asset-liability management (ALM)
• Embedded value / appraisal value
• Valuation of insurance companies (M&A)

Design for Actuaries

Quantitative Professional, Precise, Financial Authority

Color palette:

• Navy + white: insurance and financial services authority
• Charcoal + white: precise quantitative professional
• Deep teal + white: modern actuarial consulting

Back of Card

1. "Actuary | FSA | FCAS (if P&C) | MAAA | EA (if pension) | SOA | CAS | [Company]"
2. "[Practice: Life/annuities | Health | P&C | Pension | ERM | Reinsurance | Consulting]"
3. "Pricing | Reserving | Valuation | ERM | Catastrophe modeling | Loss development"
4. "Pension valuation | ACA pricing | Medicare Advantage | Variable annuity | ORSA | ALM"
5. "[email] | [LinkedIn] | [Company or Consulting firm]"

Checklist

• [ ] ASA or FSA (SOA) or ACAS or FCAS (CAS)
• [ ] MAAA (American Academy of Actuaries)
• [ ] EA (Enrolled Actuary) — if pension specialty
• [ ] CERA — if ERM specialty
• [ ] SOA or CAS membership
• [ ] Practice area (P&C, life, health, pension, ERM)
• [ ] Specialty (pricing, reserving, valuation, catastrophe, reinsurance)
• [ ] Industry (insurance carrier, consulting, reinsurance, government)
• [ ] LinkedIn (essential for actuarial networking)