Actuarial Science in UK
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 Oct 4 2010, 10:33 PM
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Wow, so many stories of fresh graduates being picked up by IB... must be damn good and lucky, because look at the situation since 2008 to now, they are cutting jobs like heck... but so many Oxbridge etc...
Is it possible to regret not applying to Oxbridge? LOL. Didn't think I'd want to study Economics as a degree but I don't know how different it is from the overall profile of quantitative business degrees (finance, business statistics, actuarial science, commerce). I know Actuarial Science is directed towards risk and contingency, with emphasis in stochastics and modelling, which are of particular interest to IB analysts  Good luck all  |
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Apr 15 2012, 10:02 PM
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QUOTE(RitzyHoke @ Apr 15 2012, 08:16 PM) There's a MORSE scholarship? There was no such scholarship last year. Plus this post is so old. LSE gave me a 3A-excluding-economics offer for Actuarial Science, haha. They don't like Accounting because it's a non-traditional subject and apparently it's easy to get an A or A* for that ... so most top unis in the UK will disregard that subject. Planning to do MMORSE! EDIT: Just realised I replied to a 3-year-old post   LSE's offers are always predictable. If you have more subjects they will exclude Economics. If you have Further Maths a grade would be specified. And they usually stick to their minimum/standard requirement. |
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May 21 2012, 11:56 AM
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Your credibility is severely undermined by the fact that there's no such thing known as an "actuarist".
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May 21 2012, 06:14 PM
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QUOTE(RyukA @ May 21 2012, 06:29 PM) I lol'ed at that one. Yeah actuarist is hardly a slip on the keyboard. lol Still prefer Actuarial Scientist. Makes pricing premiums sound so hardcore. |
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May 22 2012, 10:39 AM
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QUOTE(gomes. @ May 22 2012, 05:57 AM) My english isnt exactly the best and i've been using the term 'actuarist' even though its actuary since my a levels. Other people I know say 'actuarist' too, its wrong, but its just something people get on with. I dont understand what you mean by credibility, what i've written in all my posts is correct. Including the other post about mathematical finance being in an actuarial science course. Like Ive mentioned in my other post, you learn stochastic differential equations, black scholes model, ito's lemma/ito's calculus, martingales, markov chains etc. Isnt that mathematical finance?? Not sure why you would knowingly use a wrong word... given that's the field you've been trained in...But yeah, that's Mathematical Finance alright. Maybe I was thinking about stuff that wasn't also common to other courses, like Risk, Statistics, and Finance... but of course Mathematical Finance is Maths and all of those things. Sometimes the lines get blurry... Financial Maths, Quantitative Finance... you're right. |
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