Essential technical guides
Mortality and longevity tables
Biometric functions, Gompertz and Makeham, period and generational tables, Lee-Carter, the EMSSA and CNSF tables, and the measurement of longevity risk.
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Pure premium, loadings and gross premium, the pure premium and loss ratio methods, trend, GLMs and relativities, credibility and rate adequacy under the LISF.
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Unearned premiums, outstanding claims, IBNR with chain ladder, Bornhuetter-Ferguson, Cape Cod, Mack and bootstrap, best estimate and risk margin under the LISF and CUSF.
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The Cramér-Lundberg process, safety loading, adjustment coefficient, Lundberg's inequality, the exact exponential formula, the collective model, Panjer, approximations and reinsurance.
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RCS as a one-year 99.5% VaR, eligible own funds, the investment base, dynamic solvency testing and the ARSI: the LISF regime compared with Solvency II.
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General model, VFA and PAA; contractual service margin, risk adjustment, onerous contracts and transition, with a CSM example and the status of the standard in Mexico.
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Hazard, vulnerability and financial modules; PML, AEP, OEP and return period; the CNSF's Sistema R and RH-Mex, the catastrophe reserve, cat bonds, parametric insurance and climate scenarios.
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Seniority premium, statutory severance and pension plans valued with the projected unit credit method: DBO, service cost, interest cost, remeasurements and the differences between NIF D-3 and IAS 19.
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Climate and sustainability
Physical and transition risks, NGFS and IPCC scenarios, the CINIF's NIS, the Sustainable Taxonomy and a proposed Actuarial Climate Index for Mexico.
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Mortality improvement, Lee-Carter and Cairns-Blake-Dowd, the MP and CMI scales, dynamic EMSSA tables and the impact on life annuities.
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Heavy-tailed frequency and severity, systemic accumulations, LMA war exclusions, cyber cat bonds and the Mexican personal data framework.
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Major medical insurance in Mexico, medical inflation, trend and the Getzen model, aging and deductible leveraging.
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Duration, convexity and Redington immunization, Vasicek and CIR, the Mexican yield curve and discount rates for reserves and NIF D-3.
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The CONAC code of ethics, ISAP 1, SOA precepts, accreditation and renewal before the CNSF, independence and worked dilemmas.
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Actuarial mathematics
The mathematics of life insurance: probabilities, annuities, insurance benefits and premiums.
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Life annuities, the projected unit credit method and the Mexican retirement system.
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Quota share, surplus, excess of loss, stop-loss and optimal retention.
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Classical, Bühlmann and Bayesian: how much weight to give your own experience.
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Loss distributions and risk measures such as VaR and TVaR.
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Machine learning and neural networks applied to risk.
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Essential notation and formulas of actuarial science.
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