Actuarial Societies
Probability
Financial Mathematics
Insurance Terminology
100

The actuarial society that focuses on life insurance, health insurance, retirement benefits, and finance

What is the Society of Actuaries (SOA)?

100

A theorem says that the sampling distribution of the mean will always be normally distributed, as long as the sample size is large enough

What is the Central Limit Theorem?

100

The preferred calculator for Exam FM

What is the BA-II Plus?

100

A written contract ratifying the legality of an insurance agreement

What is a policy?

200

The actuarial society that focuses on property and casualty insurance, such as auto, homeowners, and commercial liability insurance

What is the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS)?

200

A statistical term that describes when the occurrence of one event does not affect the chances of the occurrence of the other event

What is independence?

200

The value of a current asset at a future date based on an assumed growth rate

What is future value?

200

The amount of money you pay before your insurance company starts paying for covered expenses

What is a deductible?

300

The two preliminary exams that count for both the SOA and the CAS exam tracks

What are Exam Probability (P) and Exam Financial Mathematics (FM)?

300

This is an expansion of Pr[A U B U C]

What is P[A] + P[B] + P[C] - P[AB] - P[AC] - P[BC] + P[ABC]?

300

a10]5% in words

What is a 10-year annuity immediate at 5% interest?

300

A formal request for reimbursement from an insurance company for a covered loss

What is a claim?

400

An actuary who has passed a set of initial professional exams and meets basic requirements to practice

What is an Associate Actuary?

400
This discrete distribution has an expected value and variance that are equal to each other

What is Poisson distribution?

400

A contract providing income for a specified period of time, or duration of life for a person or persons

What is an annuity?

400

Money charged for the insurance coverage reflecting expectation of loss

What is a premium?

500

An actuary who has passed all of the professional exams and meets the higher level requirements to practice

What is a Fellow Actuary?

500

In a negative binomial distribution: Pr[N=k]

[(k+r-1) Choose k] times pr times (1-p)k

500

This is the P-Q formula for the present value of a varying annuity.

What is P*an]i + Q(an]i - nvn)/i

500

A business professional who analyzes probabilities of risk and risk management including calculation of premiums, dividends and other applicable insurance industry standards

What is an actuary?

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