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Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks

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ISBN-10: 1107044073

ISBN-13: 9781107044074

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: David C. M. Dickson, Mary R. Hardy, Howard R. Waters

List price: $114.95
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How can actuaries best equip themselves for the products and risk structures of the future? In this groundbreaking textbook, three leaders in actuarial science give a modern perspective on life contingencies. The book begins with actuarial models and theory, emphasizing practical applications using computational techniques. The authors then develop a more contemporary outlook, introducing multiple state models, emerging cash flows and embedded options. This expanded edition contains more examples and exercises, and brand new material on discrete time Markov processes, on models involving joint lives, and on universal life insurance and participating traditional insurance. Balancing rigour…    
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Book details

List price: $114.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/12/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 616
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.25" long x 1.57" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English

Deborah J. Yashar is Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s (Stanford University Press) as well as articles and chapters on democratization, ethnic politics, collective action, and globalization.Deborah J. Yashar is Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s (Stanford University Press) as well as articles and chapters on democratization, ethnic politics, collective action, and globalization.David C. M.…    

Mary R. Hardy holds the CIBC Chair in Financial Risk Management at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. She is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Actuaries and of the Society of Actuaries, and has won awards and commendations for her research from the International Actuarial Association, the Institute of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries.

Howard Waters is Professor in the Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries and the Institute of Actuaries, by whom he was awarded the Finlaison Medal for 'Services to the Actuarial Profession' in 2006.