Spring 2017 - ACMA 821 G100
Advanced Actuarial Models (4)
Class Number: 5993
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 4 – Apr 7, 2017: Tue, Thu, 12:30–2:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Yi Lu
yilu@sfu.ca
1 778 782-7231
Office: SC-K10558
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Prerequisites:
ACMA 335.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Advanced non-life insurance mathematics. Individual risk models, collective risk models, ruin models. Actuarial reserve models: Bonus-malus system, IBNR techniques. Generalized linear models in Actuarial Science.
COURSE DETAILS:
Course Outline:
The main objective of this course is to review advanced actuarial models in non-life insurance and to introduce some methods which are relevant for actuarial practice. The topics covered by this course are the following:
1. Some topics on individual risk models and collective risk models.
2. Classical risk process and ruin theory.
3. Some practical methods: Bonus-malus system, IBNR techniques.
4. Topics on generalized linear models (GLM) with applications in actuarial statistics.
Grading
- Assignments, Presentation, and Project 50%
- Exam 50%
NOTES:
Grading is subject to change.
Materials
RECOMMENDED READING:
Loss Models, 3rd Edition, by S.A. Klugman, H.H. Panjer and G.E. Willmot; Publisher: Wiley.
An introduction to Mathematical Risk Theory, 1979, by H.U. Gerber; Publisher: S.S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance, U. of Pennsylvania
Modern Actuarial Risk Theory, 2001, by R. Kaas, M. Goovaerts, J. Dhaene and M. Denuit; Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
A Course in Credibility Theory and its Application, 2005, by Hans Bühlmann and Alois Gisler; Publisher: Springer.
Graduate Studies Notes:
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