CAS Online Course The Building Blocks of Financial Risk Management: Forwards, Futures, Swaps and Options
July 29 – August 14, 2005  Rick Gorvett, FCAS, FRM, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ~ Professor Kevin Ahlgrim, ASA Illinois State University

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In order to provide casualty actuaries and other interested parties with an introduction to the subject of The Building Blocks of Financial Risk Management: Forwards, Futures, Swaps and Options, 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. An Overview of the Risk Management Process
  2. Forwards
  3. Futures
  4. Swaps
  5. Options
  6. Hybrid Products Built from the Building Blocks
• Selected Readings
• Periodic Problems and Questions (facilitated by the Online Course Discussion Forum)
• Final exam

This course will assume that participants have a general knowledge of the basics of finance, as covered in CAS/SOA Exam 2 of the actuarial exams or at the Limited Attendance Finance Seminars.

Registration Fee
$375	if received before July 15, 2005
$425	if received after July 15, 2005