Actuarial Practice and Control I

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2015:

Both of:

Please refer to Prerequisites and Corequisites.

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Topics include insurance markets and products; underwriting and risk assessment; policy design; actuarial modelling; actuarial assumptions and feedback; reserving methods.

• Discuss and apply an actuarial control cycle in a variety of practical commercial situations
• Apply the tests of professionalism
• Relate the main features within the general environment to medium and long term commercial decisions
• Examine the need for and impact of regulation and government policy on medium and long term commercial decisions
• Analyse the main features and risks of financial products and contracts, from the point of view of consumers and providers
• Demonstrate an understanding of enterprise risk management and its role in organisational management
• Apply a risk assessment framework to identify and assess the risks in a range of commercial situations
• Discuss and apply the process of product design
• Select an appropriate model to solve client problems

A 3-hour end-of-semester examination (70%) and one group assignment of no more than 8 pages, draft due in week 7, final in week 10 (30%)

You will be advised of prescribed texts by your lecturer.

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• High level of development: written communication; collaborative learning; problem solving; team work; application of theory to practice; interpretation and analysis; critical thinking; synthesis of data and other information; evaluation of data and other information; accessing data and other information from a range of sources.