UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
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ACTUARIAL SCIENCE PROGRAM HOME
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Welcome to the University of Toronto actuarial home page. If crawling
around the Web got you here accidentally and you'd like to know more
about actuarial science and the actuarial profession, here are a couple
of links that you can try. One useful website to look at is
Be An Actuary.
The Canadian
Institute of Actuaries , the
Society of Actuaries and the Casualty
Actuarial Society are professional associations representing the
actuarial profession. The
Actuarial Students
National Association (ASNA/ANEA) is a Canadian university student
actuarial association that has many of Canada's university actuarial
programs as affiliate members. Those pages have links to many other
actuarial pages on the web (some of which you'll find below on this page).
Links to and general information about the
faculty members
and programs and courses available
in actuarial science at U of T can be found on the
Department of Statistics
home page.
Programs in Actuarial Science can be found in the U. of Toronto's
Faculty of Arts &
Science on-line calendar.
The following links are primarily for the students in the ActSci program.
COURIER DELIVERY OF SOA/CAS EXAM APPLICATIONS
Exam applications for the SOA/CAS May 2001 exam session must
be in the Society office by April 1, 2001. The Dept. of Statistics
will be sending exam applications by overnight courier. In order
for your exam application to be included you must submit your completed
exam application to the Dept. of Statistics office (SS60128) by noon,
March 27, 2001.
SCOR REINSURANCE CANADA STUDENT RESEARCH PRIZE
Scor Re Canada has created an Actuarial prize for university
students in Canada. The goal of the prize is to promote actuarial
research. Two prizes of $10,000 and $5,000 will be awarded in partnership
with the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. The prize is not limited to
students in actuarial science programs. Both graduate and undergraduate
students are eligible. More details on the prize are available at
Scor Re Prize . Brochures describing the
prize should be available from the Stat Department office soon.
TRANSITION RULES FOR "OLD" AND "NEW" ACTUARIAL SCIENCE PROGRAMS
Major changes were made to the actuarial science programs as of
April 1, 1999. Students who enrolled in an act-sci program prior to April
1, 1999 have the option of following the old or the new program,
subject to certain course substitutions for courses which no longer
exist. Information about those course substitutions can be found at
the transition rules. Students who have
enrolled in an act-sci program after April 1, 1999 must follow the new
program. Mixing old and new programs will not be allowed.
SOA/CAS SURVEY ON COMPUTER AVAILABLITY FOR COURSE 3 & 4 CANDIDATES
The SOA/CAS are considering a CD-ROM-based interactive study note for
inclusion in the Syllabus for Course/Exam 3 and 4 beginning with the Fall
2000 exams. As currently conceived, it would require software to be
loaded and run on a Pentium class computer with at least 24MB of RAM and
100MB of free disk space, running Windows 95, 98 or NT. A processor speed
of 166MHz is recommended. The SOA and CAS would appreciate feedback from
candidates who plan to take Course/Exam 3 and 4 some time in the future
on the availability of a suitable computer on which to use this software.
To complete the survey, please go to SOA/CAS
survey.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE YEAR PROGRAM
Students currently in the 3rd year of the ActSci specialist program
who are interested in participating in the PEY program should prepare
resumes and applications to be submitted this fall. Watch this space
for any developments regarding the PEY program such as deadlines for
application submission and employers seeeking PEY students. For
additional information of the PEY program, please contact MS. L. Simpson
at 978-3132
Courses
This takes you to links for the ActSci courses in which (it is hoped)
you will find current course information on problem sets, tests, etc.
Jobs
A listing of current job opportunities for students in the actuarial
program. There are also direct links to employer websites.
The following are links that may be of interest to the actuarially-minded.
The WebMaestro who is responsible for maintaining this page would be happy
to receive any comments, criticisms, commendations, recommendations, etc.
that you care to transmit. Please send them to
Sam Broverman (who in real
life is sam@utstat.toronto.edu).