Preview Questions Actuary | Role Specific Skill

Question 1: In a Defined Benefit (DB) pension plan, which actuarial assumption has the most significant impact on the present value of pension liabilities?

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Inflation Rate

Investment Return Rate

Mortality Rates

Salary Growth Rate

Question 2: Which financial instrument is most commonly used by pension funds to hedge against interest rate risk?

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Commodity Futures

Equity Options

Interest Rate Swaps

Credit Default Swaps

Question 3: What is the primary purpose of a bootstrapping method in actuarial analysis?

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To assess the uncertainty of an estimate by repeatedly sampling from the original dataset.

To find the optimal parameters for pricing models.

To generate historical data for risk assessment.

To compute the exact probabilities of claims occurring.

Question 4: In the context of financial modeling for banking, what does the Value at Risk (VaR) metric measure?

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The expected return of a portfolio

The volatility of a portfolio's returns

The average loss in the worst-case scenarios

The maximum loss expected over a given time period at a specific confidence level

Question 5: How do you handle non-stationary time series data when performing forecasting for claims?

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Use ARIMA with a seasonal adjustment

Fit the data with a log transformation

Ignore the non-stationarity as it's irrelevant

Difference the series to make it stationary

Question 6: When interpreting a dataset of claims frequency for an auto insurance portfolio, what type of regression model would be most appropriate?

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Poisson regression

Logistic regression

Exponential regression

Linear regression