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?[]

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[]

Actuarial science

• Actuary
• Actuarial notation

Fields in which actuarial science is applied[]

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

History of actuarial science[]

General actuarial science concepts[]

Insurance[]

• Health insurance

Life Insurance[]

• Life insurance
• Life insurer
• Insurable interest
• Insurable risk
• Annuity
• Life annuity
• Perpetuity
• New Business Strain
• Zillmerisation
• Financial reinsurance
• Net premium valuation
• Embedded value
• European Embedded Value
• Stochastic modelling

Non-life Insurance[]

• Property insurance
• Casualty insurance
• Vehicle insurance
• Ruin theory
• Stochastic modelling

Reinsurance[]

Reinsurance

• Reinsurer
• Financial reinsurance

Investments & Asset Management[]

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

Mathematics of Finance[]

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[]

• Force of mortality
• Life table

Pensions[]

Pensions

• Stochastic modelling

Other[]

• Enterprise risk management
• Fictional actuaries

Persons influential in the field of actuarial science[]

• List of actuaries

See also[]

• List of finance topics
• Index of accounting topics
• List of economics topics

References[]

External links[]

• Additional Actuarial Topics
• Actuarial Science Study Forum
• Actuarial Wiki
• Google Map of Actuarial Science Universities in the US

Professional Organizations/Associations for Actuaries[]

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