CAS Online Course Introduction to Financial Risk Management for Insurers
April 29 – May 15, 2005  Professor Kevin Ahlgrim, FSA Illinois State University Professor Rick Gorvett, FCAS University of Illinois

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In order to provide casualty actuaries and other interested parties with an introduction to the subject of financial risk management, the CAS is offering a series of online courses on the subject. This online course is taught asynchronously to allow participants to fit the work into their individual schedules. The course consists of the following:

• Six Lectures (PowerPoint slides with audio voice-overs)
  1. Introduction to Financial Risk Management
  2. How Financial Risks Compare and Contrast with Insurance Risks
  3. How Financial Risk Management Increases Firm Value
  4. Measuring Exposure to Financial Risk
  5. What Derivatives Are and How Insurers Use Them
  6. The Current State of Financial Risk Management by Insurers
• Selected Readings
• Periodic Problems and Questions (facilitated by the Online Course Discussion Forum)
• Final exam

The course will presume no prior knowledge of financial risk management, but will assume that participants have a general knowledge of the basics of finance, as covered in CAS/SOA Exam 2 or at the Limited Attendance Finance Seminars.
Enrollment is limited to a maximum of 40 participants.

Registration Fee
$375	if received before April 22, 2005
$425	if received after April 22, 2005