A Risky Business An Actuary’s Guide to Quantifying and Managing Risk in Society

She also leads and runs training courses on the theory and application of statistical modelling, and is a career ambassador for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Catrin lives in Surrey with her husband (who is also an actuary) and two children

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Townsend, Catrin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. A Short History of Actuarial Work
  • Chapter 3. Products and Perils
  • Chapter 4. Data
  • Chapter 5. Annuities
  • Chapter 6. Life Dependent Products: Your Money or Your Life
  • Chapter 7. Pensions: Who pays?
  • Chapter 8. Pricing: The Science of Estimating the Risk Cost
  • Chapter 9. Pricing: The Art of Estimating Everything Else
  • Chapter 10. Reserving: First Principles
  • Chapter 11. Reserving: Methods
  • Chapter 12. In Case of Emergency: Capital requirements
  • Chapter 13. Reinsurance
  • Chapter 14. Catastrophes and Climate Change
  • Chapter 15. Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss
  • Chapter 16. Latent Claims: A Problem for Another day
  • Chapter 17. Modelling Coronavirus-19
  • Chapter 18. Careers in Actuarial Science
  • Chapter 19. Looking Forward: the future of actuarial work