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. ACT348H1 Determination of benefit premiums and 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. ACT451H1 Individual and collective risk model; compound loss distributions; the surplus process
and determination of the probability of ruin; stop-loss reinsurance. ACT455H1 Applications of multiple decrement theory; simulation models. ACT460H1 Moment and maximum likelihood estimation of mortalitiy probabilities from complete and
incomplete data samples for tabular and parametric models; estimation of parametric loss
models. ACT466H1 Bayesian estimation, credibility theory, maximum likelihood methods; 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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