ISBN(s): 979-8-89016-220-5 | 979-8-89016-221-2
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About the Manual:
The ACTEX Study Manual for General Insurance Financial and Regulatory Environment Exam covers all of the exam's learning objectives with outlines by topic and by reading. The manual outlines all readings in line with the exam syllabus.
About the Author:
Yanlin Shi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics at the Macquarie University, where he has been a faculty member since 2017. Before that, he worked at the Australian National University from 2014 to 2016. During his teaching career, Yanlin has lectured various actuarial and statistical courses, such as Survival Models, Mathematics of Finance and Applied Statistics. Many of those courses are part of the exemption of the Core Technique (CT) subjects of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
Yanlin completed his Ph.D. in Statistics at the Australian National University and his undergraduate studies in the Chu Kochen Honors College at Zhejiang University. His research interests fall in the areas of financial econometrics, business analytics, time series analysis and mortality modelling. He has independently and collaboratively published in a wide range of international peer-reviewed academic journals, including Demography, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, and North American Actuarial Journal.
Yanlin started his journey to qualify the Fellowship of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) since 2014. He has acquired the Associate (ASA) and Charted Enterprise Risk Actuary (CERA) credentials from the SOA in late 2017. Yanlin was among the first cohort of candidates pursuing the new General Insurance (GI) track offered by the SOA. His Fellowship (FSA) designation will be earned from the SOA in June 2019, and the difficulty of his four FSA-level examination was ranked the first out of nearly nine thousand candidates, according to www.actuarial-lookup.com (corrected as of 2019).
For additional information about Yanlin’s research works, please see https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/yanlin-shi.