TAMING UNCERTAINTY: THE LIMITS TO QUANTIFICATION1

Andreas Tsanakas, M. Bruce Beck and Michael Thompson

ASTIN Bulletin, 2016, vol. 46, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Taming the beast of uncertainty has been the grand project to which actuaries have dedicated much of their energy and skill over at least the last 50 years – roughly the time since, in Hans Bühlmann's (1989) famous term, “Actuaries of the Second Kind” emerged.

Date: 2016
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