About Us


Our Mission


Our mission is to provide useful resources for actuaries to pass the actuarial exams.



Our Instructors



Garry Capko


Garry was responsible for developing and teaching actuarial modeling courses while leading the internal training function of the global actuarial modeling team at a large insurance company. His primary focus was creating an online training library but he also gave live classes to modeling teams in the United States, Ireland, UK, France, Greece, Poland, China, Australia, and Argentina. His unique training style has allowed him to teach seasoned actuaries as well as new hires. Before working in global modeling, Garry worked in financial reporting and ALM. There, he completed his SOA exams in under 3 years. Garry lives in Argentina. When not teaching actuarial courses, he trades commodity futures.

Exam Focus: PAK Online Seminar for LPM and LAM exams

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Eddy Chan FSA CERA MAAA


Eddy worked in financial reporting, modeling, asset liability management, and hedging areas in several insurance companies before. He launched his exam products since 2008 and had helped hundreds of actuaries to pass the FSA exams in their first attempt.

Exam Focus: PAK Study Manual for ERM, CFE, and SDM exams

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Colin Lancaster FSA


Colin has led efforts to build and analyze actuarial models for some of the largest life insurance companies in the US, with a focus on Asset/Liability Management. He has experience teaching exam material to actuarial candidates and managing a company's library of exam prep materials. He has always been passionate about math, and he picked up a fondness for tutoring math and quantitative finance while studying at Lafayette College. When he finds some free time, you might find Colin hiking, cooking, gardening, and keeping up with the latest in video games. He's quite lucky to be able to do these things with his wife, friends, and rescued pets.

Exam Focus: PAK Online Seminar for QFIQF, QFIPM, and QFIIRM exams

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Tim Magnuson FSA MAAA


Tim graduated from the University of Minnesota with BS degrees in Mathematics and Statistics, and BA degrees in Greek and Latin. After starting as a retirement consultant, and then 7 years at a financial institution, he now focuses primarily on annuity valuation, modeling, and projections. He has always enjoyed the art of teaching, and wants to make actuarial materials more accessible and help students find ways to relate the material to the exam process. He currently lives in the greater Minneapolis area with his wife, 4 children, and dog.

Exam Focus: PAK Study Manual for GHDP and GHVR U.S. exams

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Bell F. Ouelega FSA CERA MAAA CQF


Bell started his postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom where he graduated in Actuarial science, and Finance. After which he came over to the USA and worked as an Economic Consultant at the World Bank while attending classes. Bell graduated from George Washington University with a Master Degree in statistics in 2005.

Bell started his actuarial career 7 years ago working in financial reporting, modeling, risk management and quantitative research. Bell recently completed the Certificate of Quantitative Finance (CQF) program, where his last projects where on (i) Implementing the Health Jarrow and Merton (HJM) interest rate model by Monte Carlo Simulation and (ii) Pricing a basket of CDS by Copula Method s.

Bell’s extra curriculum activities include playing soccer and watching/reading about history and global affairs.

Exam Focus: PAK Study Manual and related study aids for QFI QF, QFI PM, QFI IRM, and RP IRM exams.

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Paul Peterson FSA CERA


Paul is a graduate from the University of Minnesota with a BS in Mathematics. After two years in the Health Insurance industry, he now works Ameriprise Financial focusing on life, long-term care, disability insurance valuation and reporting. Having enjoyed the readings during his exams, he wants to help students see how interesting the material can actually be.

He currently lives in a suburb of Minneapolis with his wife Andrea and enjoys fostering rescue dogs.

Exam Focus: PAK Online Seminar for ERM, CFE and SDM exams

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Francis Yung FSA FMLI


Francis graduated from the University of Rochester with a BA degree in Economics and Statistics. His working experience includes Accounting, Traditional Life Valuation, Annuity Valuation and Finance, and VUL Pricing. His reason for volunteering in manual-writing is to help students understand the materials with ease and pass the exams.

Exam Focus: PAK Study Manual and related study aids for LPM, LFM, and LAM exam.

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