Boss is chief actuary over multiple lines, including P&C, health (her specialty), & life. She’s about 20 years younger. It’s awkward when someone asks her opinion of my life work. When she says, “I’m not qualified…,” some infer that she disagrees. 
It’s also a bit difficult to get any meaningful peer review. I rely a lot on the two new ASAs who assist me.
I should have edited: since I’m ACAS, anyone with less credentials would be no credential, who had zero actuarial experience. Which, I had once. She was not even a below average manager. She was very “I think I’m smart and when you tell me something, I now know it and I know as much as you do about it, probably more” and thought managing was “sit in my office, don’t interact with direct reports unless I feel like we need office drama, then I’ll blame others for it and tell everyone to grow up.”
It would take a hell of a lot to win me over reporting to a non-actuary after that.
Your chief actuary boss’ comment is a bit strange. She relies upon your work so I have to assume she has confidence in you. She is signing off on it so her saying “I’m not qualified” is perplexing.
Peer review could be an issue as it should be done by a peer rather than by underlings who have little experience.
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I just remembered I worked for someone younger than me before. He was a super smart guy I had known in college when he was in high school. I actually encouraged him to apply at my company and then he got his FSA super quick and they decided my area needed an FSA. He didn’t know anything about what I did and worse he didn’t know anything about how to be a supervisor. I tried to talk to him about it once but he ignored me so I gave up.
I ended up getting reorged out from under him. I had no idea how much I needed a change until after that.
Ultimately it wasn’t his age that bothered me but the fact that he was clueless as a manager. His higher ups weren’t great either.
What was he clueless about? Didn’t give feedback? Wasn’t able to communicate his requests clearly? etc
Extremely poor communication, to start. We’d find out about stuff affecting our team from another team in a separate building.
Second, he wanted people to keep track of how much time they spent in the bathroom and count it against their 15 minute break. Just idiotic.
We actually had to do a layoff that year and he picked some of the smartest people to lay off. (He supervised more than just actuaries.)
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New younger boss seduces older worker by…
Oh wait…
WTF