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Joy-Ann Payne, ACAS, MAAA

We've asked actuaries to describe the path that led them to an actuarial career. For this installment, our featured actuary is Joy-Ann Payne, ACAS, Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting. Every actuary finds out about the profession in their own unique way. For Joy-Ann, it happened to be a chance discussion with her doctor about possible career choices.

As she says "the rest is history."

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