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Quants at the Gate: The Unique Education of Actuaries
by Jay A. Halfond and Lois K. Horwitz
August 27, 2012
Universities typically emerge as gatekeepers of the professions, by wresting control over the training and certification that is required. The process generally begins outside academe—with apprenticeships and voluntary associations—and evolves toward a new norm of academic credit and degrees. Faculty then become the experts who determine the body of knowledge budding professionals need to know ...
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