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My Rich Aunt

Philip Cooper,  

How to Value Your Rich Elderly Aunt

Actuaries describe themselves as 'making financial sense of the future'. Actuarial Science has been likened to Financial Engineering. In this one-day conference we aim to show you how actuaries approach problem solving and allow you to experience solving an actuarial problem.

Project Work
Examining life expectancy, using prepared files and Excel, or another graph plotter
Examing the mathematical model in detail
Finding values of definite integrals, and using these to answer the initial problem
Addition Material
Solutions to the problems
Details of the calculations for the mortality rates in the Life Tables
The Trapezium Rule
Extra Hardy document
An inroduction to the problem and to Life Tables
Finding a method of tackling the problem
Methods of numerical integration
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