Thank you please don’t delete this video because I need to watch it later

Don't worry, just know that you're in a fabulous field with options so at any given moment you can switch jobs and try things out if you choose.

Great video, very insightful! I am definitely keeping my options open, being flexible between actuarial and data science because of the current climate, and pursuing wherever opportunity leads

Thank you so much for this video. As someone who is studying Statistics in college right now, I was wondering which path to choose.

very detailed video on the comparison! with more exams taken and passed, I felt like it's harder for me to get out of actuarial career, but the data scientist career do look a little bit more lucrative. I think there will be more actuarial data analyst positions in the future.

It's the individual that will dictate success and monetary reward. Career path is less important, although some are better suited for structure. my two cents

also....your comparison should be Actuary vs. Data Scientist.

thnk u so much for giving me the right path and to give the enormous number of the benefits of becoming actuary and to get an job with full security and continuous increment in the pay scale

I am a Fellow and I've not quite found what you say about being treated like royalty, looked up to. I've found many in the business don't even know what an actuary is, but those that do are usually senior and those people really listen to you. I'm quite young to be a fellow at 25 and I've found in meetings many people will just ignore me and not really listen to me and then when they find out I'm an actuary they completely change the way they treat you. So it does carry some weight.

I was dreading watching this because of you being an actuary. Watching this pretty much substantiated my dread

I gave up 4 years ago to be an actuary. After trying for few different jobs, I set my goal to be an actuary again, of course, struggling for the SOA exam... Hahahaha

Really you made a good distinction.Thanks for your valuable info.

Thank you for the info!

On every point, you emphasized how the actuarial career is superior, and then at the end, you emphasized that not 1 is better than the other.

If you are very technical, like math stats and coding go for data science. Being an actuary is not that fun. Most of the insurance companies are old fashion and boring. Tech companies are a much better environment and more remote-friendly. Moreover if you are a good data scientist you can earn much more than an actuary

Actuarial science complements Data analytics because both of them deal with unstructured data, so having both the skills will help getting more better insights. I think even some Universities offer Actuarial Science along with Data Analytics.

This was so insightful, thanks Brea!!

Actuary is more prestige than Data Analyst. But Data Scientist is more comparable to actuary in terms of prestige/ salary/ etc.

very much thnk u again I know found my specialisation for pursuing masters

Thank you

Hi Brea, I really enjoyed watching your video. Unfortunately, it comes 40 years too late for me. If I understand your actuary approach correctly, then I believe that the true competitor is the Data Scientist, not the data analyst. In a nutshell: The actuary is forecasting using known and well established mathematical models, where the model selection is driven by a priori understanding of the causes. The Data Science approach selects the calculations based on the data alone, and then can derive the causes post mortem.

Hello ma’am, I saw on one of your videos that you graduated from the University of Waterloo. I also wanted to go there but I missed the application deadline. So I applied to Carleton University and I got accepted but I wanted to ask you your opinion about studying actuarial science at Carleton (if you know about that uni). Also I wanted to ask you whether you had any exemptions by studying at Waterloo?

Great video, super insightful.

Thanks for your video!! is so helpful

Hello, Brea! I was wondering whether or not you could comment on actuaries vs quants: the main differences and pros and cons of each field. Thanks!

Nice video! May I ask if I involve data analysis skills in the actuary field, will it be more advantageous? Or does actuary really have no great motivation for studying the skill of data analysis and put their whole effort into their field instead?

Please do i need to write all ten exams before I can become a fully qualified actuary?.And also Is the salary the same everywhere based on qualifications or it is the US own that is used as standard as I am a Ghanaian now about to go to the university to study the actuarial science

so actuary is a boring career? i didn't hear you mention any tech in an actuarial career, and it sounds like another finance career

Please make a video comparing actuaries and quants🙏. And are actuarial exams as mathematically intense in postgraduate studies after the first 8 exemptions?

Does "fully qualified actuary" mean a fellow actuary or would associate suffice?

I thought Data Analyst is about programming or It jobs 🤔 How could they replaced or be compared to Actury?

Which is more tough ca or actuarial science

Your video is highly bias because yu are an actuary yourself therefore yu speak highly of your career more than the other and that's unfair for people who are doing data science. The best thing to do for your subscriber is to get someone who is a data scientist to aleast validate what you are saying. Evidence based results will do the justice to all the claims you've made about data science

Hello ma’am, I saw on one of your videos that you graduated from the University of Waterloo. I also wanted to go there but I missed the application deadline. So I applied to Carleton University and I got accepted but I wanted to ask you your opinion about studying actuarial science at Carleton (if you know about that uni). Also I wanted to ask you whether you had any exemptions by studying at Waterloo?