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  • INSR 221: Employee Benefit Plan Design and Financing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Mitchell. Prerequisite(s): None. Large U.S. employers devote up to 40% of payroll on non-wage benefits, and in other countries, the ratio is higher. What rationales justify such a substantial budget commitment to employee benefits How are benefit packages designed and how do they evolve to achieve multiple ends Course units cover aspects of life insurance, health and disability insurance, and deferred compensation plans along with the economic consequences of and regulatory environment shaping each. Executive compensation is also covered. This course is useful to anyone interested in health care, insurance and retirement planning, for either professional or personal reasons.
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  • INSR 222: Business Insurance and Estate Planning

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Hallman. Prerequisite(s): None. This course presents an analysis of overall private wealth management. This includes planning for disposition of closely-held business interests; the impact of income taxes and other transfer costs on business interests and other assets; integration of life insurance, disability insurance, medical benefits, and long-term care insurance in the financial plan; planning for concentrated asset (e.g., common stock) positions, diversification techniques, and asset allocation strategies; distribution of retirement assets; lifetime giving and estate planning; and analysis of current developments in the creation, conservation, and distribution of estates. Attention also is given to various executive compensation techniques (including restricted stock and stock options) and planning for various employee benefits. The course also covers sophisticated charitable giving techniques and methods for financing education expenses. Readings consist of textbook, case studies, and bulk pack articles. This course should be attractive to most students to help them plan for their own or their families' financial affairs. It also should be particularly attractive to students specializing in entrepreneurship, wealth management finance, and law.
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  • INSR 230: Managing Pure Risks:Operations and Markets

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    staff. Prerequisite(s): None. This course deals with property-liability insurance company financial management "alternative market" mechanisms for managing pure risks such as captive insurance companies, and the securitization of risk-linked bonds and other instruments. It involves extensive discussion of insurance company financial strategies including investments, asset-liability management, value-at-risk, capital estimation, and financial reporting. Additional topics include product distribution and marketing systems, underwriting operations and policy, reinsurance, rate-making and reserves, claims, accounting, and other functions of insurance risk pools. The regulation and taxation of insurance and captive insurance companies are also covered. A number of public policy issues affecting the management of property-liability insurers are discussed including: insurer solvency and state guarantee funds, discrimination in property-liability insurance pricing, the effect of the underwriting cycles, and the convergence of the financial services sector. The characteristics of the property-liability insurance industry also are studied within the framework of the financial services industry.
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  • INSR 232: Risk Management and Treatment

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    staff. Prerequisite(s): None. Nature and objectives of corporate risk management. Primary consideration devoted to the recognition, evaluation, and treatment of pure risks to which the corporation is exposed.
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  • INSR 251: Fundamentals of Actuarial Science I

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Lemaire. Prerequisite(s): One semester of calculus. This course is the usual entry point in the actuarial science program. It is required for students who plan to concentrate or minor in actuarial science. It can also be taken by others interested in the mathematics of personal finance and the use of mortality tables. For future actuaries, it provides the necessary knowledge of compound interest and its applications, and basic life contingencies definition to be used throughout their studies. Non-actuaries will be introduced to practical applications of finance mathematics, such as loan amortization and bond pricing, and premium calculation of typical life insurance contracts. Main topics include annuities, loans and bonds; basic principles of life contingencies and determination of annuity and insurance benefits and premiums.
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  • INSR 252: Fundamentals of Actuarial Science II

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Lemaire. Prerequisite(s): INSR 251. This specialized course is usually only taken by Wharton students who plan to concentrate in actuarial science and Penn students who plan to minor in actuarial mathematics. It provides a comprehensive analysis of advanced life contingencies problems such as reserving, multiple life functions, multiple decrement theory with application to the valuation of pension plans.
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  • INSR 253: Actuarial Statistics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Lemaire. Prerequisite(s): Math 140-141 or equivalent, Stat 101-102 or 430-431 or equivalent. This course covers models for insurer's losses, and applications of Markov chains. Poisson processes, including extensions such as non-homogeneous, compound, and mixed Poisson processes are studied in detail. The compound model is then used to establish the distribution of losses. An extensive section on Markov chains provides the theory to forecast future states of the process, as well as numerous applications of Markov chains to insurance, finance, and genetics. The course is abundantly illustrated by examples from the insurance and finance literature. While most of the students taking the course are future actuaries, other students interested in applications of statistics may discover in class many fascinating applications of stochastic processes and Markov chains.
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  • INSR 260: Applied Statistical Methods for Actuaries

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Lemaire. Prerequisite(s): One semester of probability. One half of the course is devoted to the study of time series, including ARIMA modeling and forecasting. The other half studies modifications in random variables due to deductibles, co-payments, policy limits, and elements of simulation. This course is a possible entry point into the actuarial science program. No INSR coure is a pre-requisite for INSR 831. The Society of Actuaries has approved INSR 831 for VEE credit on the topic of time series.
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  • INSR 805: Risk Management

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Prerequisite(s): None. None. This course describes the concepts and techniques available to corporations, non-profit organizations and other organizations in their efforts to manage pure risks. The costs associated with such pure risks as product liability, environmental impairments, property losses, work-related injuries, and employee benefits (e.g., pensions, health insurance, etc.) affect the daily management of organizations. Managers who make decisions without appropriate consideration of risk management issues can jeopardize the long-term survival of their organizations. The course examines a common set of techniques which can be used by managers in dealing with these problems, including risk assumption, prevention, diversification, and transfer via insurance and non-insurance market mechanisms. In turn, students learn to recognize that the institutional structure of the organization itself influence its own risks and their corresponding treatments.
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