Outline of actuarial science
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]
- Mathematical finance
- Insurance, especially:
- Human resource consulting
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]
Actuarial science at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- Additional Actuarial Topics
- Actuarial Science Study Forum
- Actuarial Wiki
- Google Map of Actuarial Science Universities in the US