<t>same boat as u. However, i'm a final year actuarial science student. yeh, all that number crunching sucks.. I wanna get into modelling and all... there's operations research in the R&D part of actuarial... however the northern america just revised their syllabus and cut that chuck outta it.. ...

<t>Just reading off the previous thread regarding actuaries... mmm, i have a question. a major big question actually. being an actuarial graduate without getting any professional exemptions is completely pointless? and would u're better off acing off doing some easy majors like finance and then comp...

<t>why on earth would u need a MBA for analysing !??!!? i'd have presumed a master in stats would help more. i'm taking several master degree subject as an undergrade already. i dun see anything they know more than i do. in fact, i find those post grad subjects rather wishy washy and not really stra...

i dont know what CFA... but i sorta have a major in actuarial science... there r 3 levels, 1 level has 9 subj and 2nd level has 4, 3rd has 1..... apparently the average age of a fully liscense actuary is 35 !!!!!what the !!!!! hahahahhahaha

<t>hey all, feels like ages since i was here last... reaching final yr and gettig a reality check of future career.umm... after being involved in this forum, i find quantitative analysing rather interesting and wish to pursue after that area. however, it seems to me that most firms wants a junior qu...

<t>scholar!!!!!!!! why didnt u reply this earlier!?!?!? urgh... my paper was due on 17th....and i read this after i did the whole thing... disappointing...=( thanx a lot anyways, i hope i did alrite? =) i realised the JLT model made different assumptions from singleton(1997) and both of their adv an...

<t>thanx reza for your help and all. umm... my paper!?!?! posting it here... oooh.... with all those tech ppl here, my paper would feel very threatened! lol... i'd probably get about 10000000 replies just critically analysing it!! well, 4th assignment for the week.... thought this program wouldnt be...

<t>ummm... is anyone an expert on programming a function so that it calculates options using crank nicholson finite difference method? some insites or references to some books and sites would be appreciated. btw, i finished my credit risk paper! yay! took me forever to go through all the materials w...

<t>well, i'm actually reviewing on what kijima M. published at 98 ion markov chain approach to credit risk modelling.. actually similar to what Kodera Eiji is doing except i was meant to compare what made the models better compariing to the previous ones instead of generating new ideas and proof and...

thanx reza i'll take a look at them now =)

hi all, i'm doing a paper on markov chain modelling for credit risk derivatives and i've reviewed on the jarrow-lando-turnbull(JLT) 97 paper and Kijima commentary 98. i was hoping if anyone has any books or read anything which could be of some interest to the topic? thanx a lot =)

hi all, i'm doing a paper on markov chain modelling for credit risk derivatives and i've reviewed on the jarrow-lando-turnbull(JLT) 97 paper and Kijima commentary 98. i was hoping if anyone has any books or read anything which could be of some interest to the topic? thanx a lot =)