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Exam ALTAM – Advanced Long-Term Actuarial Mathematics
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Free Exam ALTAM – Advanced Long-Term Actuarial Mathematics revision notes for SOA (Society of Actuaries) students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Survival Models for Contingent Cash Flows
Mortality curves and heterogeneity in mortality
Markov multiple state models for life and long-term health benefits and CCRCs
Assumptions underlying Markov multiple state models
Kolmogorov's forward equations for continuous-time Markov models
State-dependent probabilities for continuous-time Markov models
Chapman-Kolmogorov equations for discrete-time transition probabilities
Multiple decrement tables and single decrement models
Maximum likelihood estimates of transition intensities and probabilities
Confidence intervals for transition intensity estimators
Premium and Policy Valuation for Long-Term State-Dependent Coverages
State-dependent insurance and annuity present value random variables
Two-term and three-term Woolhouse approximations
Premiums for state-dependent coverages by the equivalence principle
Policy values for state-dependent coverages
Thiele's differential equation
Joint Life Insurance and Annuities
Modelling joint-life mortality: time-to-status-failure and multiple state models
Dependence of future lifetimes in joint life models
Premiums for insurance and annuities on joint lives
Policy values for insurance and annuities on joint lives
Profit Analysis
Expected profit and actual profit
Analysis of gains by source
Profit signature, profit vector, NPV, IRR, profit margin, and discounted payback period
Premiums based on a specified profit objective
Reserves using profit testing
Pension Plans and Retirement Benefits
Replacement ratios for DC and DB plans (FAS, CAE, CARE)
Required contribution rate for a DC plan
Service table and salary scale functions
Accrued benefits for a DB plan, including early exit
Actuarial accrued liability and normal cost: PUC and TUC methods
Universal Life Insurance
Account values and benefits under Type A and Type B Universal Life policies
Reserves for no-lapse guarantees
Deterministic profit testing for Universal Life insurance
Embedded Options in Life Insurance and Annuity Products
Payoffs under embedded guarantees: GMDB, GMMB, GMIB, and GMWB
Valuing embedded guarantees using the Black-Scholes model
Replicating portfolios via delta-hedging
Costs of discrete-time rebalancing
Profit testing for equity-linked life insurance cash flows
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