Outline of actuarial science
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Template:Short description The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to actuarial science:
Actuarial science – discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in the insurance and finance industries.
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What type of thing is actuarial science?
Actuarial science can be described as all of the following:
- An academic discipline –
- A branch of science –
- An applied science –
- A subdiscipline of statistics –
- An applied science –
Essence of actuarial science
Fields in which actuarial science is applied
- Mathematical finance
- Insurance, especially:
- Human resource consulting
History of actuarial science
General actuarial science concepts
Insurance
Life Insurance
- Life insurance
- Life insurer
- Insurable interest
- Insurable risk
- Annuity
- Life annuity
- Perpetuity
- New Business Strain
- Zillmerisation
- Financial reinsurance
- Net premium valuation
- Gross premium valuation
- Embedded value
- European Embedded Value
- Stochastic modelling
- Asset liability modelling
Non-life Insurance
- Property insurance
- Casualty insurance
- Vehicle insurance
- Ruin theory
- Stochastic modelling
- Risk and capital management in non-life insurance
Reinsurance
Investments & Asset Management
- Dividend yield
- PE ratio
- Bond valuation
- Yield to maturity
- Cost of capital
- Net asset value
- Derivatives
Mathematics of Finance
- Interest
- Time value of money
- Discounting
- Present value
- Future value
- Net present value
- Internal rate of return
- Yield curve
- Yield to maturity
- Effective annual rate (EAR)
- Annual percentage rate (APR)
Mortality
Pensions
Other
Persons influential in the field of actuarial science
See also
References
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External links
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- Additional Actuarial Topics
- Actuarial Science Study Forum
- Actuarial Wiki
- Google Map of Actuarial Science Universities in the US