Actuarial Notes

An Introduction to Computational Risk Management of Equity-Linked Insurance

By Runhuan Feng · Taylor & Francis Group · 2018

Study guide: Exam ILA-101

A resource for students and entry-level professionals to understand the fundamentals of industrial modeling practice for equity-linked insurance, and to get a glimpse of software methodologies for modeling and computational efficiency. The publisher describes it as a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to quantitative risk management of equity-linked insurance, with exercises and programming samples, covering both Monte Carlo simulation methods and non-simulation numerical methods.

On the syllabus

  • Exam ILA-101 — Outcomes 5c; Chapter 1: Modeling of Equity-linked Insurance and Chapter 4: Pricing and Valuation (excluding Section 4.7).

1 Modeling of Equity-linked Insurance

2 Elementary Stochastic Calculus

3 Monte Carlo Simulations of Investment Guarantees

4 Pricing and Valuation

5 Risk Management - Reserving and Capital Requirement

6 Risk Management - Dynamic Hedging

7 Advanced Computational Methods

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