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• Actuarial Foundations

  A broad introduction to becoming and working as an actuary. Understand the career and qualification, build core Excel and modelling skills, and learn how to explain technical work clearly to different audiences.

  1. ○Become an Actuary: UK Grad Schemes & Internships29 lessons included
  2. ○The Exam Route: Cost, Odds and Pay8 lessons included
  3. ○Excel, R, Python and SQL for Actuaries8 lessons included
  4. ○Communicating as an Actuary11 lessons included

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• General Insurance Track

  Build a practical introduction to general insurance actuarial work. Cover pricing, reserving, capital, catastrophe modelling and the London Market, alongside the Excel and Python skills that support this type of analysis.

  1. ○Become an Actuary: UK Grad Schemes & Internships29 lessons included
  2. ○Excel, R, Python and SQL for Actuaries11 lessons included
  3. ○Communicating as an Actuary11 lessons included
  4. ○Inside General Insurance18 lessons included

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• Life Insurance Track

  Build a practical introduction to life insurance actuarial work. Cover protection products, mortality, valuation, annuities, pension risk transfer and Solvency UK, alongside the Excel and Python skills used to work with actuarial cashflows and life tables.

  1. ○Become an Actuary: UK Grad Schemes & Internships29 lessons included
  2. ○Excel, R, Python and SQL for Actuaries11 lessons included
  3. ○Communicating as an Actuary11 lessons included
  4. ○Inside Life Insurance19 lessons included

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• Pensions Track

  Build a practical introduction to pensions actuarial work. Learn how defined benefit schemes are valued and funded, understand investment and endgame decisions, and develop the Excel and communication skills used throughout pensions work.

  1. ○Become an Actuary: UK Grad Schemes & Internships29 lessons included
  2. ○Excel, R, Python and SQL for Actuaries8 lessons included
  3. ○Communicating as an Actuary11 lessons included
  4. ○Inside Pensions19 lessons included

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• Investments Track

  Build a practical introduction to actuarial investment work. Learn how assets are managed against liabilities, cover bonds, interest-rate risk and liability-driven investment, and develop the technical skills needed to work through the calculations yourself.

  1. ○Become an Actuary: UK Grad Schemes & Internships29 lessons included
  2. ○Excel, R, Python and SQL for Actuaries11 lessons included
  3. ○Communicating as an Actuary11 lessons included
  4. ○Inside Investments16 lessons included

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• Modelling and Data Track

  Develop the technical skills used to work with actuarial data and models. Cover Excel, Python, R and SQL, together with model structure, checking, documentation and communicating the results clearly.

  1. ○Become an Actuary: UK Grad Schemes & Internships2 lessons included
  2. ○Excel, R, Python and SQL for Actuaries17 lessons included
  3. ○Communicating as an Actuary4 lessons included

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Acttuary certificates record completion of our learning tracks. They are not professional actuarial qualifications, do not provide IFoA exam exemptions, and Acttuary is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.