Resources

CM1 Actuarial Mathematics

Interest theory, annuities, loans and bonds, life contingencies and joint lives, plus the notation cheat sheet.

Interactive tools

Loan amortisation calculator

Level payments with the full interest and capital schedule and outstanding balance, monthly or annual. The CM1 loan question, and every mortgage ever.

Bond price and yield calculator

Price from yield or yield from price, with running yield, duration, modified duration and convexity. Fixed interest for CM1, SP5 and CFA, with a test-yourself mode and worked solutions.

NPV and IRR calculator

Type a cash-flow row, get NPV at your rate, the IRR, discounted payback and the whole NPV curve. Project appraisal for CM1 and CB1.

Survival models playground

Gompertz-Makeham mortality with live sliders: survival curves, force of mortality and life expectancy. Illustrative law, not a published table. CS2 and CM1.

Annuity calculator

Annuities-certain in proper notation: arrears, due, continuous and increasing values, accumulations, and every equivalent way of quoting an interest rate. Core CM1, with a test-yourself mode and worked solutions.

Life contingencies calculator

Assurances, life annuities, net premiums and prospective reserves on an adjustable Gompertz-Makeham basis, with live reserve curves. The other half of CM1.

Joint life and last survivor

Two lives on an adjustable mortality basis: joint-life and last-survivor survival curves, annuities and assurances, all through one inclusion-exclusion identity. CM1.

Immunisation playground

Two bonds solved to match a liability's present value and duration, and the surplus smile that proves Redington's conditions work — against a PV-only portfolio that doesn't. CM1 and SP5.

Reference sheets

Other subjects