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Models for Risk Management - ACTL5301
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Faculty: Australian School of Business
 
 
School:  Actuarial Studies Unit
 
 
Course Outline: ACTL5301 Course Outline
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: ACLT5101 and ACTL5106
 
 
Equivalent: MFIN6401
 
 
Fee Band: 3 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course covers the models used in insurance and reinsurance for frequency and severity of losses for both individual risks and portfolios of risks. Included is the modeling of dependencies amongst risks and links to credit and operational risk models. Topics include: individual and collective risk models; loss distributions; estimation techniques for loss models; GLM's; extreme values and tails of losses; copulas and modeling dependency.

Enrolment requires school approval.

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