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  • Actuarial Analytics and Data IIACTL40012

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject aims to further develop students’ knowledge of modern analytical tools and techniques, including GLM, shrinkage techniques (e.g., LASSO and ridge regression), tree-based methods (e.g., random forests and GBM) and neural networks. It also teaches students to connect data analytics wor...

  • Actuarial Modelling IACTL30001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject aims to provide students with a grounding in mathematical and statistical modelling techniques that are of particular relevance to actuarial work, covering survival models concepts, estimation procedures for lifetime distributions, multiple state models, binomial and Poisson models o...

  • Actuarial Modelling IIACTL30002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    The aim of this subject is to provide students with grounding in mathematical and statistical modelling techniques that are of particular relevance to actuarial work, including methods of estimating mortality rates and assessing their adherence to data and smoothness, as well as techniques for mo...

  • Actuarial Modelling IIIACTL30007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject aims to provide a grounding in stochastic modelling techniques that are of particular relevance to actuarial work in general insurance, covering  loss distribution with and without risk sharing,  calculation of moments and moment generating function of aggregate claims, recursion for...

  • Actuarial Practice and Control IACTL40006

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Topics include insurance markets and products; underwriting and risk assessment; policy design; actuarial modelling; actuarial assumptions and feedback; reserving methods.

  • Actuarial Practice and Control IACTL90010

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Topics include insurance markets and products; underwriting and risk assessment; policy design; actuarial modelling; actuarial assumptions and feedback; reserving methods.

  • Actuarial Practice and Control IIACTL40007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Topics include assessment of solvency; analysis of experience; analysis of surplus; actuarial techniques in the wider fields; and an introduction to professionalism.

  • Actuarial Practice and Control IIACTL90011

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Topics include assessment of solvency; analysis of experience; analysis of surplus; actuarial techniques in the wider fields; and an introduction to professionalism.

  • Actuarial Practice and Control IIIACTL90009

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    Analysis of investment portfolios and asset classes from the perspective of an appointed actuary, with a view to identifying assets that suit the requirements of a variety of general insurance, life insurance, superannuation and other defined benefit liabilities.    

  • Actuarial Practice and Control IIIACTL40009

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This subject covers analysis of investment portfolios and asset classes from the perspective of an appointed actuary, with a view to identifying assets that suit the requirements of a variety of general insurance, life insurance, superannuation and other defined benefit liabilities.

  • Actuarial Science Research Report Part 1ACTL90016

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 (Extended), Semester 2 (Extended) Year:2024

    A research essay not exceeding 10,000 words on a topic approved by the Head of Department. The word count includes bibliography, footnotes, appendices and the number of words which would take up space used for tables, formulae and charts.

  • Actuarial Science Research Report Part 2ACTL90017

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 (Early-Start), Semester 2 (Early-Start) Year:2024

    Refer to ACTL90016 Actuarial Science Research Report Part 1 for details

  • Actuarial StatisticsACTL30004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject aims to provide students with grounding in advanced linear regression analysis which includes multiple linear regression, Spearman's and Kendall's measures of correlation, principal component analysis and generalised linear models. This subject also focuses on explaining the fundamen...

  • Actuarial Studies Projects - Part 1ACTL90013

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 (Extended) Year:2024

    This subject provides students with the experience of carrying out research independently on each of three topics chosen by the subject’s lecturers. For each topic, the student is required over eight weeks to conduct and present as an extended essay the results of an independent piece of actuaria...

  • Actuarial Studies Projects Part 1ACTL40010

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 (Extended) Year:2024

    Students will be required to submit three assignments of between 3,000 and 3,500 words each, on dates specified at the start of the academic year. The word count includes bibliography, footnotes, appendices and the number of words which would take up space used for tables, formulae and charts.

  • Actuarial Studies Projects - Part 2ACTL90024

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 (Early-Start) Year:2024

    This subject provides students with the experience of carrying out research independently on each of three topics chosen by the subject’s lecturers. For each topic, the student is required, over eight weeks to conduct and present as an extended essay the results of an independent piece of actuari...

  • Actuarial Studies Projects Part 2ACTL40011

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 (Early-Start) Year:2024

    Students will be required to submit three assignments of between 3,000 and 3,500 words each, on dates specified at the start of the academic year. The word count includes bibliography, footnotes, appendices and the number of words which would take up space used for tables, formulae and charts.

  • Actuarial Studies Research EssayACTL40001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    A research essay of not more than 10,000 words on a topic approved by the Head of Department. The word count includes bibliography, footnotes, appendices and the number of words which would take up space used for tables, formulae and charts.

  • Adapting to Climate ChangeENST90034

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:April Year:2024

    This subject focuses on climate change adaptation, and in particular its environmental, political, social and policy dimensions. It explores the ways which climate change poses risks to human wellbeing, and the ways these risks can be managed. It draws on examples from Australia and the Asia-Paci...

  • Adaptive LeadershipMGMT90264

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Term 1 Year:2024

    In Adaptive Leadership, students learn and apply core knowledge, skills and tools to recognize and navigate leadership opportunities and challenges in the context of digital transformation and dynamic competitive environments. The subject focuses in particular on how to build individual and colle...