Description: This guide lists literature sources that an actuary can use to gain knowledge on investments and asset/liability management. It can be viewed as a preliminary road map for the actuary seeking direction to enhance his or her knowledge in these areas. The emphasis of this guide is on fixed-income securities.

Description: This is a study note that supplements material contained in the book, 'Actuarial Mathematics,' 2nd edition, by N. L. Bowers, Jr., H.U. Gerber, J.C. Hickman, D.A. Jones and C.J. Nesbitt. The topics covered include integer functions, uniform distribution of deaths throughout each year of age, and annuity coefficients.

Description: In actuarial practice there is notation and terminology that varies by country, by application, and by source. The purpose of this study note is to present notation and terminology that will be used on the Society of Actuaries Models for Life Contingencies [MLC] examination for situations where notation or terms may not be common to all sources and notation or terms that are unique to the MLC examination.

Description: This literature guide provides a basic grounding in a wide range of reinsurance matters for a variety of products and purposes.

Description: Lists literature which provides a good grounding in individual disability income: markets, product design, pricing, underwriting, claim management, reinsurance, morbidity experience, and reserves.

Description: This note points out that the non-linear parameter estimation technique presented in the Part 5 Study Note is in fact the Gauss - Newton method for the non-linear least-square problem.

Description: This guide is intended to provide a broad introduction to several performance-oriented products. It distinguishes variable 'equity-linked' life insurance, universal life 'flexible payment and current fixed yields', variable universal life, and current developments in variable annuities 'primarily minimum death benefits'.

Description: This Guide lists sources that the actuary may use to gain knowledge on investments and asset/liability management. Its purpose is to make available a preliminary road map for the actuary seeking direction to enhance his or her knowledge in these areas.