I just want to know what's so important about the Actuary professional paper like SOA?
like example ACCA/CPA is important due to Accountant need to have the qualification to sign the account, if they dont have the qualification of ACCA/CPA they will not be able to sign the account.
CFA which is just a sign to people that the holder has the investment and finance knowledge but no certain post of job/career which stated down CFA is a must. Which CFA migh just give u higher chance for applying certain post.
In these two case we know the different between CFA and ACCA/CPA, to be a accountant ACCA is a must.
So I would like to know SOA is more like CFA? or ACCA? in term of the importance.

Second, I'm 28 years old now I was graduated from Bsc Econ (which degree has exemption for the SOA VEE exam) and lately I wanted to be a actuary and I took SOA exam p and passed it then I started to look for some actuary related job but sadly...not much for entry level, Is that anyone can tell me that am I too old to get into this field? or I should pass few more paper only it will be higher chance for me to get in this field?

To be honest if i can get into this field I dont mind pay cut but u remind me maybe i should adjust the expected salary to lower level
I have working experience I used to be econ analyst and currently Im working as a research and credit analyst But still I rarely see opening for actuarial entry level...

This post has been edited by veger_leong: Feb 14 2011, 02:46 PM

Anyone know where can we learn about the prophet modelling ? or can we download the programme ?

hey you are studing soa as well? I just passed my second paper Exam FM so now i completed my first two paper will be doing exam c and fap for next. What exam are you taking now ya? I have no idea how is FAP working hope you can give me some advice and do you have any study guide/books for exam c? I mean soft copy : )