Experience You Can Rely On

Jim Bedford is the founder of Bedford Actuarial Advisory, LLC. A Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) and Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA), Jim brings over 15 years of diverse property and casualty actuarial experience, and a knack for making the complex intuitive, to his own practice. Jim has provided actuarial advisory and assurance services to many of the country's largest self-insured organizations and (re)insurance companies while at a Big Four audit and assurance firm and a highly regarded management consulting practice. He has also performed ratemaking and predictive modeling services at primary insurers and given over a thousand actuarial students an intuitive understanding of actuarial reserving, ratemaking, financial reporting, and regulation concepts on CAS Exams 5 and 6U at Bedford Seminars.

While having very strong technical knowledge, Jim excels at communication and making complex actuarial concepts accessible and understandable for his clients, leading to performance review comments such as: “Many years ago, I read in an actuarial publication the following: ‘Good actuaries excel in math; great ones excel in English.’ I believe Jim is one of those great ones!” and "Jim is a master at critical thinking and communication of insights and results to any audience, both actuaries and non-actuaries."

Outside of the office, Jim enjoys keeping active with his two children, practicing yoga, being outdoors, and checking MLB parks off their list with his son (26 of 30 so far).