The Danish Society of Actuaries (DSA), or the Danske Aktuarforening, is the association for actuaries

Actuary

An actuary is a business professional who deals with the financial impact of risk and uncertainty. Actuaries provide expert assessments of financial security systems, with a focus on their complexity, their mathematics, and their mechanisms ....

 in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. The Society held its first constituents meeting on 23 April 1901 and the first meeting of members on 31 May 1901.

Objectives

The objective of the Danish Society of Actuaries is to advance the body of knowledge of the actuarial science and to enhance the interest of the Danish actuary profession.

International connections

The Danish Society of Actuaries is affiliated with the International Actuarial Association

International Actuarial Association

The International Actuarial Association is a worldwide association of local professional actuarial associations and their 64,000-odd fellows.-History:...

, of which all DSA members join, except for pensioners.

The Danish Society of Actuaries works together with the other societies of actuaries in the EC in Groupe Consultatif des Associations d’Actuaires des Pays des Communautés Européennes. One of the most important objectives of Groupe Consultatif is to keep in close contact with the European Commission

European Commission

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and see to it that the Commission is aware of the standards of the societies.