Outline of actuarial science

Overview of and topical guide to 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?

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Actuarial science can be described as all of the following:

* An academic discipline –
* A branch of science –
* An applied science –
* A subdiscipline of statistics –

## Essence of actuarial science

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Actuarial science

* Actuary
* Actuarial notation

## Fields in which actuarial science is applied

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* Mathematical finance
* Insurance, especially:
* Life insurance
* Health insurance
* Human resource consulting

## History of actuarial science

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History of actuarial science

## General actuarial science concepts

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### Insurance

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* Health insurance

#### Life Insurance

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* 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

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* Property insurance
* Casualty insurance
* Vehicle insurance
* Ruin theory
* Stochastic modelling
* Risk and capital management in non-life insurance

#### Reinsurance

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Reinsurance

* Financial reinsurance
* Reinsurance Actuarial Premium
* Reinsurer

### Investments & Asset Management

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* Dividend yield
* PE ratio
* Bond valuation
* Yield to maturity
* Cost of capital
* Net asset value
* Derivatives

### Mathematics of Finance

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Financial mathematics

* 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

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* Force of mortality
* Life table

### Pensions

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Pensions

* Stochastic modelling

### Other

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* Enterprise risk management
* Fictional actuaries

## Persons influential in the field of actuarial science

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* List of actuaries

## See also

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* Index of accounting articles
* Outline of economics
* Outline of corporate finance
* Outline of finance

## References

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## External links

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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

## Professional Organizations/Associations for Actuaries

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* CCA - Conference of Consulting Actuaries
* CAS - Casualty Actuarial Society
* SOA - Society Of Actuaries

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