Any actuaries using D?

[jmh530]

On Sunday, 7 March 2021 at 11:43:11 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> [snip]
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>> Hedge fund != actuary
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> As far as I understand, calculating risks is a big thing at 
> Symmetry. That's a core activity for an actuary as well.
>
> — Bastiaan

Calculating risks is a big field. There will certainly be some 
overlap between techniques that an insurance firm (particularly 
on annuities and as it relates to asset management) and a 
hypothetical hedge fund might use. However, actuaries are also 
thinking about a wider range of risks. For instance, a life 
insurance company cares a lot more about longevity risk than most 
hedge funds. Both might care about how market risks affect them.

In addition, there are many different types of hedge fund (e.g. 
equity long/short or discretionary macro). The risks that hedge 
funds focus on will be different across different strategies (and 
some may take more or less quantitative approaches to thinking 
about those risks).