Module Details

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Title Life Insurance Mathematics II
Code MATH373
Coordinator Dr M Boado Penas
Mathematical Sciences
Carmen.Boado@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2020-21 Level 6 FHEQ First Semester 15

Aims

Provide a solid grounding in the subject of life contingencies for multiple-life, and in the subject of the analysis of life assurance, life annuities, pension contracts, multi-state models and profit testing. Provide an introduction to mathematical methods for managing the risk in life insurance. Analyze problems of pricing and reserving in relation to contracts involving several lives. Prepare the students to sit for the exams of CT5 subject of the Institute of Actuaries . Be familiar with R programming language to solve life insurance problems.


Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Be able to explain, define and analyze the joint survival functions.

(LO2) Understand the concept (and the mathematical assumptions) of the joint future life time random variables in continuous and discrete time and monthly. Be able to derive the distributions and the moment/variance of the joint future lifetimes.

(LO3) Be able to define the survivals probabilities/death probabilities of either or both two lives, explain these types of probabilities and the force of interest intuitively, be able to calculate the different types of the survival/death probabilities in theoretical and numerical examples.

(LO4) Understand, define and derive the expected present values of different types of the life assurances and life annuities for joint lives, be able to calculate the expected present values of the joint life assurances and life annuities in theoretical and numerical examples.

(LO5) Be familiar with R solfware and uses in actuarial mathematics

(S1) Problem solving skills

(S2) Numeracy


Syllabus

 

(a) Revision of Life insurance I N et premiums, gross premiums, benefits and expenses.

(b) Multiple-life actuarial functions Joint life survival functions for the joint future life times , probabilities of death and survival of either or both two lives, relations between the joint survival probabilities and the corresponding probabilities of the one life, joint life and last survivor assurance and annuity functions and the corresponding expected present value, extension to consideration of continuous and mthly frequencies, and to functions that depend on term as well as age, joint force of mortality, joint life table functions,   numerical applications.

(c) Multiple life models (Markov / semi-Markov models) The death-alive model, term insurance with increasing benefit on accident death, the permanent disability model, the disability income insurance model, the joint life and last survivor model, assumptions of the models, probabilities based on intensities usin g Kolmogorov’s equations, transition intensities based on probabilities, numerical evaluation of probabilities.

(d) Emergency costs for all contract types and pensions Unit-linked contracts and disability long-term contracts, profit test annual premium contracts, the profit vector, the net present value, the profit signature, the profit margin, the profit test to price a product/determine reserves, construction and use of a multiple decrement service table for pension calculation, extension of the above techniques to calculate expected cash flows contingent risk other than human lives.

(e) Selection and heterogeneity Principal factors which contribute to the variation in mortality and morbidity by region and according to: occupation, nutrition, housing, geography, education.  Examples of main forms of selection: temporary or initial selection, class selection, time selection, spurious selection, adverse selection, necessity of different mortality tables for different classes of lives, the theoretical basis of the use of risk classification in life insurance, definitions of the terms: crude index, direct/indirect standardization, standardized mortality/ morbidity rate, SMR.


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Assessment

EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
mark
Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
submission
Notes
Final assessment open book and remote There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission.  one hour time on tas    50       
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
mark
Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
submission
Notes
Homework 2 open book and remote  around 60-90 minutes    30       
Class Test 1 open book and remote  around 60-90 minutes    20