CIA Accreditation Panel Today

Today the U of R has visitors from the CIA (that's the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, not the spies) - an accreditation panel of 4 FCIAs who are here to examine our ACTSCI program.  Hopefully all we go well and we'll be part of the CIA's accreditation program and therefore starting in 2012, U of R students will be eligible to receive a CIA exemption from exams FM/2, MLC, 3L, MFE/3F and C/4.

SOA/CAS Exams Proctored at U of R This Fall Correction

We will be proctoring the pen and paper preliminary exams for the SOA and all CAS exams again this fall.  Upcoming exams and dates are as follows.

• P/1 September 15
• FM/2 October 11
• C/4 October 21
• CAS8 Oct 25
• CAS6 October 26

The following two exams will be administered at the Cooperators at 1920 College Avenue.

• CAS3L October 27
• MFE/3F November 10

New ActSci Course Offering this Winter

We'll be offering a new ActSci Course in the Winter 2011 term, which I will be teaching.  It will be listed as either ACSC390.xx or ACSC316, and will cover the derivative pricing material covered under exam MFE.    Pre-requsites will be ACSC216 and STAT251, but students should be co-registered in ACSC318.  This will plug a gap in our course offerings, which we have the manpower to fill thanks to Taehan's arrival on staff.  I'll post more info on the course as the date approaches.

Early SOA Calculator

I unearthed this ancient artifact during recent archaeological excavations of my university office.  yes it looks like it came out of a Corn Flakes box, but this was the official SOA calculator (it carries the SOA seal on its backside) and was only calculator allowed on SOA exams for a long time.  Yes we wrote the equivalents of FM, MLC and C using a five function, one memory calculator.