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Actuarial Methods - course description

General information
Course name Actuarial Methods
Course ID 11.5-WK-MATED-AM-S22
Faculty Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences
Field of study Mathematics
Education profile academic
Level of studies Second-cycle studies leading to MS degree
Beginning semester winter term 2022/2023
Course information
Semester 4
ECTS credits to win 7
Course type optional
Teaching language english
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 for different kinds of risk models with applications to real-world problems in actuarial calculations.

Prerequisites

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

Scope

1. Survival functions and probability of survival.

2. Survival tables and their parameters - elements of demographic and insurance statistics.

3. Survival models for incomplete years.

4. Analytical laws of survival.

5. Basic types of life insurance - single net premiums.

6. Types of life annuities - single net premiums.

7. Commutative functions in insurance and life annuity calculus.

8. Net annual premiums and premiums payable in subperiods.

9. Reserves for premiums in endowment and mixed life insurance.

10. Joint life insurance - premium calculation.

11. Multi-option insurance.

12. Unit-Linked insurance.

13. Risk process, insurer's reserve process - Lundberg model.

14. Probability of insurer ruin.

Teaching methods

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

Classes: exercises (theoretical and computational)

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

Evaluation of individual exercises, control works, final exam, and grades

Recommended reading

  1. N. Bowers, H.U. Gerber et all, Actuarial Mathematics, Soc. of Actuaries, Illinois, 1986.

  2. J. Grandell, Aspects of Risk Theory, Springer, Berlin,1992.

  3. H.U. Gerber, Life Insurance Mathematics, Springer, 1997

Further reading

Notes


Modified by dr Ewa Synówka (last modification: 29-12-2023 18:03)