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Student Actuaries at Michigan2014 Fall Mass Meeting

SAM Board Members

Position Officer

President George You

Vice President Huan Wang

Career Chair Zachary Shaw

Joyce Zhang

Secretary Scott Kim

Treasurer Yuchen Lin

Webmaster Chris Plumhoff

IM Sports Chair Jillian Longton

Social Chair Yuki Xin

Planning Committee Chair Louis Paparella

Faculty

Actuarial Mathematics Faculty

B. Roger Natarajan Actuarial Program Director

Joseph Marker Lecturer IV

Kristen Moore Associate Professor

Virginia R. Young Cecil J. & Ethel M. Nesbitt Professor

Bradley P. Hinesman Lecturer I

Objective & Overview

• Career Events• Help members with recruiting

• Social Events• Build up networks

• Sports Events• We are not nerds

• Exam subsidies• Encourage exam pass

Career Events• Resume Workshop

• 9/24, 4-5 PM• Time: TBD• Location: Math Commons (tentative)

• Mock Interviews• Week of 9/29 - 10/3 (see SAM calendar)

• Information Sessions• First information session - 9/18 • Company: Cigna• 6 pm,Pizza House

• Refer to SAM calendar for all future dates, times, etc.

• Company Visits• Towers Watson - 9/19• Blue Cross Blue Shield & Deloitte - 9/26

• Career Center Connector• Check career center for resume submission deadlines• Most of these will occur after the first information session

Social Events

• Coffee Chat• BBQ• Picnic• Laser Tag• Painting the Rock!• Bar Crawl

News from Secretary:

2. Case Study1. SAM Newsletter

3. Mass Meeting Survey

Intramural Sports• Easy way to earn attendance points, make new

friends and have tons of fun

• Sports selected based on your preference

• SAM pays all fees and takes care of administrative business

• Please fill out survey sent out after mass meeting to indicate sports you’d be interested in playing with SAM!

SAM Intramural Sand Volleyball• Mondays at 6:30PM at Elbel Field (starting next Monday)

• How to join?• Either come talk to me at end of meeting if you are

interested in playing• Or indicate interest on survey sent out after mass

meeting

Webmaster

• Brand New Website• http://sam.math.lsa.umich.edu/

• Calendar of Events• Web Based Attendance• Schedule Maker

How to become our member?

1. Membership dues 2. Fill out survey

• Amount:• $30 by 9/22• $35 afterwards

• Basic info• Name• Uniqname• UMID#• T-shirt size• Sign up at

sam.math.lsa.umich.edu

• Will be sent out after mass meeting

Forget to bring membership dues?

• Yuchen (Treasurer) appointment• Math Undergraduate Office (EH 2nd floor)• Wrapped in an envelope• Basic info• Name• Uniqname• UMID#• T-shirt size

• Notify SAM Board via email

Attendance/Subsidy Policy

• Exam Subsidy Requirements:• Membership dues paid• Enough attendance points (Next Slide)• Declared Actuarial or Financial Mathematics major• Have not previously received support from the

Department for a particular examination• Have a completed resume on file with the Career

Centre

Event Type Attendance Points

Company Visit 6

Recruiting Event 3

Social Event 2

Survey 1

Exam Sittings

Exam Exam DateRegistration

DeadlineAttendance

Points

P November 1-12 October 2nd 6

FM December 9-20 October 29th 15

MFE November 13-19 October 2nd 6

MLC October 31 September 24th 3

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ACTUARIAL SCIENCE MAJOR

MA 215 Calculus III

OR255/285/295

MA 217Linear

Algebra

ECON 101Micro-

Economics(SOA VEE)

ECON 102Macro-

Economics(SOA VEE)

EECS 183Elementary

ProgrammingConcepts

MA 216Differential

Equations OR 256/286/316

MA 423Mathematics

of Finance

MA 425 Introduction

ToProbability

STATS 426 Introductory Theoretical

Statistics

MA 523Risk

Theory

MA 521Life

ContingenciesPart II

(or MA 522)

MA 520Life

ContingenciesPart I

MA 424CompoundInterest &

Life Insurance

ECON 406(SOA VEEApplied

Statistics )

FIN 302(SOA VEECorporateFinance)

PRE REQ

BASIC(Min

C Minus)

CORE( Min

C Minus)

Cognates(Valuable)

ECON 406 = ECON 452

TALK TO AN ADVISORBEFORE DECIDING

CONGNATES

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Actuarial Exams – SOA vs CASDescription SOA Exam CAS Exam

Probability Exam P Exam 1

Interest Theory Exam FM Exam 2

FinancialEconomics

Exam MFE Exam 3 F

Life Contingencies Exam MLC Exam LC

Loss Models Exam C Exam 4

Statistics &Stochastic Modeling

No Equivalent Exam ST

If you take SOA Exams, then you get credit for CAS Exams.If you take CAS Exams, we are not sure whether SOA will give credit or not.So, it might be a good idea to take SOA Exams, initially.

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POSSIBLE SOA EXAM STRATEGIES

MA 215 MA 425 Exam P

MA 217

MA 424 Exam FM AndExam MFE

MA 115 or 156 or 186

MA 215

MA 423

MA 215

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POSSIBLE SOA EXAM STRATEGIES

STATS 426 ECON 452

MA 520Fall Only

MA 521Winter Only Exam MLC

MA 425

MA 215

MA 523

MA 424

MA 215 Exam C

MA 425MA 215

Questions

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