ACT Actuarial Science CoursesACT240H1
Interest, discount and present values, as applied to determine prices and values of annuities, mortgages, bonds, equities; loan repayment schedules and consumer finance payments in general; yield rates on investments given the costs on investments. ACT245H1
Introduction to basic concepts of risk management; utility theory; application of calculus and probability to analyze claim and loss frequency and severity of distributions; premium determination; insurance with deductible, reinsurance and self-insurance. ACT247H1
Probability theory applied to survival and to costs and risks of life assurances, life annuities, and pensions; analysis of survival distributions; international actuarial notation, annual benefit premium. ACT348H1
Determination of benefit reserves for life insurance and annuities; analysis of insurance loss random variables; theory of life contingencies for multiple lives, multiple decrement theory. ACT349H1
Actuarial applications of financial mathematics and economics. ACT370H1
Duration and immunization of fixed income cash flows; stochastic interest rate models applied to the valuation of interest contingent fixed income securities; introduction to valuation of financial derivatives. ACT398H0/399Y0
An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. See page 40 for details. ACT451H1
Collective risk model; payment and loss random variables; claim count process; the surplus process; ruin models. ACT455H1
Applications of probability models and stochastic processes; ACT460H1
Maximum likelihood estimation, censoring and truncation. Non-parametric and semi-parametric methods. ACT466H1
Bayesian estimation, credibility theory, maximum likelihood methods; properties of loss models, simulation. ACT470H1
Topics in pension mathematics; funding methods for pension plans. (Offered in alternate years) ACT471H1
Assets, liability and investment management for pension plans. (Offered in alternate years) ACT472H1
Practical issues that arise for insurance, pension and casualty actuaries. ACT496H1/497H1
Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. Persons wishing to take this course must have the permission of the Undergraduate Secretary and of the prospective supervisor. ACT498Y1/499Y1
Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. Persons wishing to take this course must have the permission of the Undergraduate Secretary and of the prospective supervisor. |
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