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Courses built for future actuaries
Learn what actuarial work actually involves, build the technical skills used on the job and prepare for applications and interviews. The courses combine clear explanations, worked examples, quizzes and interactive Excel, Python, R and SQL exercises you can complete in the browser.
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Excel, R, Python and SQL for Actuaries
Build the technical skills that are useful across actuarial work. Practise Excel in an interactive spreadsheet, write Python and R in the browser, run SQL queries against a database, and learn how to structure, check and review your work properly.
17 lessons · 6 modules
Become an Actuary: UK Grad Schemes & Internships
Understand how to get into actuarial work in the UK. Learn what actuaries do, how the qualification works, where the main practice areas differ, how graduate schemes and internships are structured, and how to prepare for online tests, video interviews, assessment centres and final interviews.
29 lessons · 8 modules
Communicating as an Actuary
Good actuarial work is only useful if you can explain it clearly. Learn how to write for different audiences, make recommendations, present numbers and charts, document your work, handle difficult conversations and communicate in a way that supports a decision.
11 lessons · 4 modules
The Exam Route: Cost, Odds and Pay
Understand what the IFoA qualification involves before you commit to it. Explore the exam structure, exemptions, study costs, pass rates, typical study support and how exam progress can affect salary. The course also helps you think about how the qualification fits alongside your first few years of work.
8 lessons · 2 modules
Inside General Insurance
Learn how general insurance works and what actuaries do within it. Cover pricing, reserving, capital, catastrophe modelling and the Lloyd's market, with worked calculations and examples that show how the different areas fit together.
18 lessons · 5 modules
Inside Investments
Learn how actuaries think about investments when the assets exist to meet future liabilities. Cover bonds, interest-rate risk, asset-liability matching, liability-driven investment and the lessons from the 2022 gilt-market crisis, with calculations you can work through yourself.
16 lessons · 5 modules
Inside Life Insurance
Understand the main areas of UK life insurance, from protection products to annuities and pension risk transfer. Learn the products, the role of life tables and expected present values, how bulk purchase annuities work and the basic structure of a Solvency UK balance sheet.
19 lessons · 5 modules
Inside Pensions
Learn how defined benefit pensions work, how their promises are valued and funded, what moves a scheme's financial position and the decisions trustees and employers make as schemes mature. Cover valuations, investment risk, funding, buy-ins and buy-outs, with enough context to understand what pensions actuaries actually work on.
19 lessons · 5 modules