1. What are the Actuaries’ primary roles in financial institutions?

2.  Financial products pricing  Financial institutions reserve valuation

3.  Insurance Companies: Life, Property and Casualty, and Health  Pension consultant companies

4.  Financial risk management  Primary reasons of financial institution ruins in the last 20 years:  Lack of diversifying of assets  Assets and liabilities in and out cash flows mismatching

5.  Financial Engineer (Backroom Quantitative Geek)  CERA (Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst)  Companies hire Financial Engineers, or CERA  Banks  Investment Companies  Venture Capital Investors  Other Financial Institutions

6.  Society of Actuaries (SOA): soa.org  Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS): casact.org  American Academy of Actuaries (AAA): actuary.org  Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA): cia- ica.ca

7.  https://www.soa.org/Education/Exam- Req/default.aspx https://www.soa.org/Education/Exam- Req/default.aspx  ASA: Associate of Society of Actuaries  https://www.soa.org/education/exam- req/edu-asa-req.aspx https://www.soa.org/education/exam- req/edu-asa-req.aspx  VEEs: Validation by Educational Experience: Economic (two courses), Corporate Finance (two courses), and Applied Statistical Methods (two courses)

8.  https://store.soa.org/VEESchoolSearch/VEEC ourseListing.aspx?sc=9008&sd=National%20Tai wan%20University&VEE=displayonly https://store.soa.org/VEESchoolSearch/VEEC ourseListing.aspx?sc=9008&sd=National%20Tai wan%20University&VEE=displayonly  NTU

9.  Probability  Financial Mathematics  Model for Financial Economics  Model for Life Contingencies  Construction and Evaluation of Actuarial Models

10.  Fundamentals of Actuarial Practice  Associateship Professionalism Course (APC)

11.  VEEs : Economic and Corporate Finance  Exams: Probability, Financial Mathematics, Model for Financial Economics, Construction and Evaluation of Actuarial Models, and Enterprise Risk Management.  e-Learning module courses: Fundamentals of Actuarial Practice, and Enterprise Risk Management.  Associateship Professionalism Course (APC)

12.  2 five-hours and 1 two-hour written essay exams, 3 e-Learning modules  Fellowship Professionalism Course (FPC)

13.  Corporate Finance and ERM (CFE)  Quantitative Finance and Investment (QFI)  Individual Life and Annuities  Group and Health  Retirement Benefits  General Insurance (Property and Casualty)

14.  http://www.casact.org/admissions/process/ http://www.casact.org/admissions/process/  ACAS: Associate of Casualty Actuarial Society  VEEs: Economic, Corporate Finance, and Applied Statistical Methods

15.  Probability  Financial Mathematics  Model for Financial Economics  Model for Life Contingencies  Model for Stochastic Processes and Statistics  Statistics and Probabilities Models  Construction and Evaluation for Actuarial Models

16.  Basic Techniques for Ratemaking and Estimating Claim Liabilities  Regulations and Financial Reporting (Nation Specific) (Chinese Taipei, U.S. and Canada)

17.  Risk Management and Insurance Operation  Insurance Accounting, Coverage Analysis, Insurance Law and Insurance Regulation  CAS course on Professionalism

18.  Exams (written essay exams) Estimation for Policy Liabilities, Insurance Company Valuation, and Enterprise Risk Management Advanced Ratemaking Financial Risk and Rate of Return

19.  Exams: (written essay exams)  Estimation for Policy Liabilities, Insurance Company Valuation, and Enterprise Risk Management  Financial Risk and Rate of Return  Enterprise Risk Management Specialist Technical

20.  Enterprise Risk Management and Modeling

21.  English language communication proficiency: oral and written  Computer languages proficiency: Excel (including macros, preferable with knowledge of Visual Basic), Fortran 90, SAS Enterprise (including procedures), C++, Perl, and JCL

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