The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to actuarial science:

Actuarial science – discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in the insurance and finance industries.

What type of thing is actuarial science?

Actuarial science can be described as all of the following:

• An academic discipline –
• A branch of science –
  • An applied science –
    • A subdiscipline of statistics –

Essence of actuarial science

Actuarial science

• Actuary
• Actuarial notation

Fields in which actuarial science is applied

• Mathematical finance
• Insurance, especially:
  • Life insurance
  • Health insurance
• Human resource consulting

History of actuarial science

History of actuarial science

General actuarial science concepts

Insurance

• Health insurance

Life Insurance

• Life insurance
• Life insurer
• Insurable interest
• Insurable risk
• Annuity
• Life annuity
• Perpetuity
• New Business Strain
• Zillmerisation
• Financial reinsurance
• Net premium valuation
• Gross premium valuation
• Embedded value
• European Embedded Value
• Stochastic modelling
• Asset liability modelling

Non-life Insurance

• Property insurance
• Casualty insurance
• Vehicle insurance
• Ruin theory
• Stochastic modelling
• Risk and capital management in non-life insurance

Reinsurance

Reinsurance

• Financial reinsurance
• Reinsurance Actuarial Premium
• Reinsurer

Investments & Asset Management

• Dividend yield
• PE ratio
• Bond valuation
• Yield to maturity
• Cost of capital
• Net asset value
• Derivatives

Mathematics of Finance

Financial mathematics

• Interest
• Time value of money
• Discounting
• Present value
• Future value
• Net present value
• Internal rate of return
• Yield curve
• Yield to maturity
• Effective annual rate (EAR)
• Annual percentage rate (APR)

Mortality

• Force of mortality
• Life table

Pensions

Pensions

• Stochastic modelling

Other

• Enterprise risk management
• Fictional actuaries

Persons influential in the field of actuarial science

• List of actuaries