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.
What type of thing is actuarial science? edit
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 edit
Fields in which actuarial science is applied edit
History of actuarial science edit
General actuarial science concepts edit
Insurance edit
Life Insurance edit
- 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 edit
- Property insurance
- Casualty insurance
- Vehicle insurance
- Ruin theory
- Stochastic modelling
- Risk and capital management in non-life insurance
Reinsurance edit
Investments & Asset Management edit
- Dividend yield
- PE ratio
- Bond valuation
- Yield to maturity
- Cost of capital
- Net asset value
- Derivatives
Mathematics of Finance edit
- 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 edit
Pensions edit
Other edit
Persons influential in the field of actuarial science edit
See also edit
References edit
External links edit
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