Core Reading 2014 - ST8 General Insurance: Pricing Specialist Technical

Core Reading is the Institute and Faculty's statement of what each student needs to know to pass the exam. You can purchase course notes, combined materials packs and other study material from ActEd.

Contents

• Accreditation
• Introduction
• Unit 1 Glossary of terms
• Unit 2 Insurance products
• Unit 3 Reinsurance products
• Unit 4 The business environment
• Unit 5 Risk and uncertainty in pricing
• Unit 6 Data
• Unit 7 Actuarial investigations and analyses
• Unit 8 Risk models
• Unit 9 Introduction to rating methodologies and bases
• Unit 10 Rating using frequency-severity and burning cost approaches
• Unit 11 Rating using original loss curves
• Unit 12 Generalised linear models
• Unit 13 Use of multivariate analysis in pricing
• Unit 14 Credibility theory
• Unit 15 Pricing of proportional and non-proportional reinsurance
• Unit 16 Use of catastrophe models
• Syllabus with cross referencing to Core Reading