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Financial mathematics for actuaries / Wai Sum Chan, The Chinese University of Hongkong, Hongkong, Yiu Kuen Tse, Singapore Management University, Singapore.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New Jersey : World Scientific, [2018]Copyright date: c2018Edition: Second EditionDescription: xviii, 353 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789813224667
  • 9789813224674 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.0151 .W143 2018
LOC classification:
  • HF5691 2018
Summary: "Financial Mathematics for Actuaries is a textbook for students in actuarial science, quantitative finance, financial engineering and quantitative risk management and is designed for a one-semester undergraduate course. Covering the theories of interest rates, with applications to the evaluation of cash flows, the pricing of fixed income securities and the management of bonds, this textbook also contains numerous examples and exercises and extensive coverage of various Excel functions for financial calculation. Discussions are linked to real financial market data, such as historical term structure, and traded financial securities. The topics discussed in this book are essential for actuarial science students. They are also useful for students in financial markets, investments and quantitative finance. Students preparing for examinations in financial mathematics with various professional actuarial bodies will also find this book useful for self-study. In this second edition, the recent additions in the learning objectives of the Society of Actuaries Exam FM have been covered." -- Provided by publisher
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"Financial Mathematics for Actuaries is a textbook for students in actuarial science, quantitative finance, financial engineering and quantitative risk management and is designed for a one-semester undergraduate course.
Covering the theories of interest rates, with applications to the evaluation of cash flows, the pricing of fixed income securities and the management of bonds, this textbook also contains numerous examples and exercises and extensive coverage of various Excel functions for financial calculation. Discussions are linked to real financial market data, such as historical term structure, and traded financial securities.
The topics discussed in this book are essential for actuarial science students. They are also useful for students in financial markets, investments and quantitative finance. Students preparing for examinations in financial mathematics with various professional actuarial bodies will also find this book useful for self-study.
In this second edition, the recent additions in the learning objectives of the Society of Actuaries Exam FM have been covered." -- Provided by publisher

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