Experience You Can Rely On

Jim Bedford

Principal & Owner

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 providing 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, performing ratemaking and predictive modeling services at primary insurers, and providing over a thousand actuarial students an intuitive understanding of the actuarial reserving, ratemaking, financial reporting, and regulation concepts on CAS Exams 5 and 6U at Bedford Seminars, Jim is excited to bring that knowledge and knack for making the complex intuitive to his own actuarial advisory practice.

While having very strong technical knowledge, Jim really 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 one's 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 of their list with his son (26 of 30 so far).