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Ben Rickayzen BSc FIA

Senior Lecturer 
Faculty of Actuarial Science and Statistics,
Cass Business School, City University

Teaching

Part 1 students

 

Financial and Investment Maths  

 

Tutorial sheet 11

2004/5 Coursework 1: Questions

2004/5 Coursework 1: Solutions

2004/5 Coursework 3: Questions

2004/5 Coursework 4: Questions

 

Progress test Dec 2001: Questions

Progress test Dec 2001: Solutions

Progress test Dec 2002: Questions

Progress test Dec 2002: Solutions

Progress test Jan 2004: Questions

Progress test Jan 2004: Solutions

Numerical answers to tutorial sheets for FAIM:   solutions

Summer exam papers from 1998 can be found from:

http://www.city.ac.uk/actstat/exams/indices/act.html

or look at:     http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/library

Numerical answers to summer examinations for FAIM:   1995 onwards (MS Word for Windows 95 format)
 
Part 2 students 

Financial and Investment Maths 2

2004/5 Coursework 1: Questions

2004/5 Coursework 1: Solutions

2004/5 Tutorial sheet numerical answers: Solutions

Summer exam papers and numerical answers: look under FAIM 1 above

Pre-contingencies course notes These notes contain more material than was delivered during the 4 lectures. Students are only expected to know about the material delivered during those lectures. Copyright for these notes rests with Mr Rickayzen and Dr Wright. Notes 1 and Notes 2.

 

Postgrad students 

Subject 104

Net premium problem to be solved on 280104

 Questions for assignment 1

Solutions to assignment 1

Questions for assignment 2

Solutions to assignment 2

Questions for assignment 3

Solutions to assignment 3

Mortality profit examples
 


Research

My research interests include

  • Long Term Care
  • Continuing Care Retirement Communities
  • Income Protection Insurance

 

Publications:

In sickness and in health? Dynamics of health and cohabitation in the United Kingdom (written with Martin Karlsson and Les  Mayhew), Actuarial Research Paper no. 178, The City University, 2007.

            http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/arc/reports/178ARP.pdf

 

An analysis of disability-linked annuities, Actuarial Research Paper no. 180, The City University, 2007.

            http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/arc/reports/180ARP.pdf

 

Long term care financing in 4 OECD countries: fiscal burden and distributive effects (written with Martin Karlsson and Les  Mayhew), Health Policy, 2007, 80, pp 107-134.

               http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/heap/article/PIIS0168851006000273/fulltext

 

Future costs for long-term care: Cost projections for long-term care for older people in the United Kingdom (written with Martin Karlsson, Les  Mayhew and Robert Plumb), Health Policy, 2006, 75, pp 187-213.

               http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/heap/article/PIIS0168851005000679/abstract

 

Modern actuarial theory and practice. (written with Philip Booth, Robert Chadburn, Steven Haberman, Dewi James, Zaki Khorasanee and Robert Plumb). Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Boca Raton (2nd edition), 2005.

 

An international comparison of long term care arrangements (written with Martin Karlsson, Les  Mayhew and Robert Plumb), Actuarial Research Paper no. 156, The City University, 2004.

               http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/arc/reports/ARP156.pdf

 

Measuring process risk in income protection insurance. (written with Steven Haberman and Zoltan Butt). ASTIN Bulletin, 34 (1) 199-227, 2004.

               http://www.casact.org/library/astin/vol34no1/199.pdf

 

A multi-state model of disability for the UK: implications for need for long term care for the elderly (written with Duncan Walsh). British Actuarial Journal, 8, II, 2002.

 

A sensitivity analysis of the parameters used in a PHI multiple state model.  Journal of Actuarial Practice Volume 9, 2001.

               http://www.absalompress.com/

 

Multiple state models, simulation and insurer insolvency in Giornale dell’ Instituto degli Attuari (written with Steven Haberman and Zoltan Butt), 2001.

 

A model for projecting the number of people who will require long-term care in the future - Parts I, II and III (written with Duncan Walsh), Actuarial Research Papers no's. 123, 124 and 125, The City University, 2000.

               http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/arc/reports/123ARC.pdf

 

               http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/arc/reports/124ARC.pdf

 

               http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/arc/reports/125ARC.pdf

 


MSc dissertations

I am willing to supervise dissertations in the following areas:

  • Health Insurance (including income protection, critical illness and long term care insurance)
  • Pensions

Consultancy hours

Please feel free to phone or e-mail me to arrange an appointment.

Telephone

+44 (0)20 7040 8499

Fax

+44 (0)20 7040 8572

email

b.d.rickayzen@city.ac.uk


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Ben Rickayzen, March 2006.