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Actuarial Methods - course description

General information
Course name Actuarial Methods
Course ID 11.5-WK-MATD-MA-W-S14_pNadGenG9Y45
Faculty Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Econometrics
Field of study Mathematics
Education profile academic
Level of studies Second-cycle studies leading to MS degree
Beginning semester winter term 2019/2020
Course information
Semester 2
ECTS credits to win 7
Course type optional
Teaching language polish
Author of syllabus
  • dr hab. Mariusz Michta, prof. UZ
Classes forms
The class form Hours per semester (full-time) Hours per week (full-time) Hours per semester (part-time) Hours per week (part-time) Form of assignment
Lecture 30 2 - - Exam
Class 30 2 - - Credit with grade

Aim of the course

Knowledge about selected topics on actuarial and insurance mathematics: mortality models, net premium calculations, reserves, collective risk model, ruin probability.

Prerequisites

Mathematical analysis, probability theory, introduction to financial mathematics, foundations of stochastic analysis.

Scope

1. Mortality models, survival probability, life tables.
2. Life insurances payable at the moment of death.
3. Life insurances payable atth end of the Lear of death.
4. Single net premiums and relationships between different kinds of insurances.
5. Live annuities and their single net premiums.
6. Commutation function formulas for annuities and insurances.
7. Net premiums: fully continuous and discrete.
8. Net premium reserves: prospective and retrospective formulas .
9. Multiply life functions: the joint-life status and the last-survivor status. Insurances and annuities.
10. Multiply decrement models-basic kinds of insurances and premium calculations.
11. Collective risk models. Lundberg’s risk model and Cramer-Lundberg’s estimation of ruin
probability.

Teaching methods

Lectures: actuarial and insurance mathematics: mortality models, net premium calculations,
reserves, collective risk model, ruin probability.
Classes: exercises.

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

Evaluation of individual exercises, final exam and grades.

Recommended reading

1. M. Skałba, Ubezpieczenia na życie, WNT, Warszawa, 2002.
2. T. Rolski, B. Błaszczyszyn, Podstawy matematyki ubezpieczeń na życie, WNT, Warszawa, 2005.
3. N. Bowers, H.U. Gerber et all, Actuarial Mathematics, Soc. of Actuaries, Illinois, 1986.
4. J. Grandell, Aspects of Risk Theory, Springer, Berlin,1992.

Further reading

1. W. Ronka-Chmielowiec, Ryzyko w ubezpieczeniach-metody oceny, AE, Wrocław, 1997.
2. M. Dobija, E. Smaga, Podstawy matematyki finansowej i ubezpieczeniowej, WNT, Warszawa,
3. H. U. Gerber, Life Insurance Mathematics, Springer, Berlin,1990.

Notes


Modified by dr Alina Szelecka (last modification: 03-07-2019 12:29)