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Master of Actuarial Practice

ACPR11M

Faculty:
Faculty of Business and Economics
Award:
Master of Actuarial Practice (MActPrac)
Study Mode:
Full-time, Part-time
Attendance Mode:
Internal
Candidature Length:
Full-time: 2 years
Study Period Offerings:
Session 1
General requirements:
Minimum number of credit points 64
Minimum number of credit points at 600 level 16
Minimum number of credit points at 800 level or above 48
Completion of other specific minimum requirements as set out below

In order to graduate students must ensure that they have satisfied all of the general requirements of the award: see the general requirements listed above.

Specific minimum requirements:

Credit points

600 level

Required
4
Stochastic Methods in Finance and Insurance (4)
 
Required
4
Statistical Modelling in Finance and Insurance (4)
 
Required
4
Principles of Finance (4)
 
Required
4
Mathematical Modelling (4)
 

800 level

Required
4
Mathematics of Finance (4)
 
Required
either
or
 
Statistical Inference (4)
 
4
Statistical Theory (4)
 
Required
8cp from
 
Contingent Payments 1 (4)
 
 
Contingent Payments 2 (4)
 
 
 
 
 
or 8cp from
Mathematical Theory of Risk (4)
 
8
General Insurance Pricing and Reserving (4)
 
Required
16cp from
 
ACST801 - ACST871
 
Research Project A (4)
 
 
Research Project B (4)
 
 
Advanced Microeconomics (4)
 
 
Advanced Macroeconomics (4)
 
16
Economics for Actuaries (4)
 
Required
16cp from
 
Performance Measurement and Management (4)
 
 
ACST801 - ACST871
 
Research Project A (4)
 
 
Research Project B (4)
 
 
Research Methodology in Finance (4)
 
 
Corporate Finance (4)
 
 
Investments (4)
 
 
Capital Markets (4)
 
 
Business Valuation (4)
 
 
Personal Financial Planning (4)
 
 
Corporate Financial Forecasting (4)
 
 
Epidemiology (4)
 
 
Data Management and Statistical Computing (4)
 
 
Linear Models (4)
 
 
Categorical Data and Generalised Linear Models (4)
 
 
Bioinformatics (4)
 
 
Business Project Management (4)
 
 
ECON units at 800 or 900 level
 
Introduction to Geographic Information Science for Postgraduates (4)
 
 
Introduction to Geographic Information Science for Postgraduates (4)
 
 
Marketing and Finance (4)
 
 
Generalized Linear Models (4)
 
 
Statistical Design (4)
 
 
Epidemiological Methods (4)
 
 
Time Series (4)
 
 
Survival Analysis (4)
 
 
Data Mining (4)
 
 
Modern Computational Statistical Methods (4)
 
16
Stochastic Finance (4)
 

Balance of credit points required:

 
 
0
Electives

TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED FOR THIS PROGRAM

64