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Fully Funded Scholarship in Australian National University

Introduction to Actuarial Science (Free Online Course)

Fully Funded
Country: Australia
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This course readies you for a career as an actuary in finance, investments, banking or insurance.

About this course

You may have heard of actuarial science, or you might even know an actuary, but do you know what an actuary does? During the course you’ll hear from a wide variety of actuaries about their careers.

And don’t be scared that the course will be “just a whole lot of mathematics”. Together, we will go beyond the math to learn how actuaries approach problems relating to risk, using examples from:

  • Finance
  • Investments
  • Banking
  • Insurance

You will learn how actuarial science applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in these industries and other professions.

You’ll experience “hands-on” learning using Excel (or an equivalent spreadsheet tool) to project and investigate the financial condition of a company choosing appropriate strategies for the company through the use of simulations.

The course has been carefully designed for students from a wide variety of backgrounds, with secondary/high school level being the only assumption of mathematical background. Even if you don’t have any background in, for example, calculus, the course has been designed so you can skip over these sections without affecting your understanding of the rest of the course. You also do not need to have any Excel or other spreadsheet background to take the course.

For those with stronger mathematical backgrounds, extension questions are provided to test you further. You’ll learn a huge amount about actuarial science no matter what your background is!

What you’ll learn

  • The basics of actuarial science
  • Valuing series of cash flows
  • Incorporating uncertainty into cash flows due to investment and mortality
  • Monte-Carlo simulation of uncertain cash flows in Excel (or an equivalent spreadsheet tool)
  • Applying actuarial techniques to life insurance and predicting human life expectancy
  • How actuarial science is used in finance, investments, banking and insurance

Specifications

Type of Opportunity Scholarships and Fellowships
DeadlineOngoing
CountryAustralia
Open toAll Nationalities
OrganizerAustralian National University

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