Undergraduate - UnitETC2430 - Actuarial statistics

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
Offered	Clayton Second semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Colin O'Hare

Synopsis

This unit will introduce students to some of the techniques used in actuarial work, and will give an overview of some of the areas in which actuaries are currently involved. The student is introduced to the basic concepts involved in assessing risk and pricing insurance products, and to this end will gain experience in using past data to model survival and in using a simple model of compound interest to value financial transactions.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

understand the concepts and techniques used in actuarial work
construct demographic statistics, life tables and exposed to risk tables
model mortality rates
price insurance products and determine reserves.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 40%
Examination: 60%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Colin O'Hare

Workload requirements

4 hours per week

Prerequisites

Students must have passed the following two units: ETC1000 and ETC1010