Web Resources for Actuarial Exam IFM (formerly MFE)


Date: June, 2020
Compiled by Dr. Myron Hlynka, Department of Math & Stat.,

University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario



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Information


Actuarial MFE Problems/soln on the Web

  1. Questions and Solutions from past MFE exams. Only questions that still apply to the IFM curriculum remain.
    https://www.soa.org/Files/Edu/2018/ifm-derivatives-questions-solutions.pdf
    Questions and Solutions on Finance and Investment. These questions were developed independently of the examination process, but were reviewed by the examination committee for general applicability.
    https://www.soa.org/Files/Edu/2018/2018-exam-ifm-sample-questions.pdf
  2. SOA MFE, M, Course 3, and other old exams. There is a May 2009 Exam and a May 2007 exam.
    http://www.soa.org/education/exam-req/syllabus-study-materials/edu-multiple-choice-exam.aspx
    Also earlier exams.
    https://www.soa.org/Education/Exam-Req/Syllabus-Study-Materials/edu-multiple-choice-exam-archives.aspx
  3. Krzys Ostaszewski: "My free resources are now all in my YouTube channel"
    http://smartURL.it/PassActuarialExams
    as follows: Exam P: http://smartURL.it/PassExamIFM
  4. Eva Kubicka's weekly practice problems.
    http://www.math.louisville.edu/~ewa/ProblemsMFE/
  5. Broverman Weekly MFE and other questions. Only a small number of MFE quesitons.
    http://www.sambroverman.com/question.html
  6. Elias Saab site. Makes up random tests, including Exam MFE. May need firefox.
    http://www.saab.org/actuarial.html
  7. UC Santa Barbara. Pstat 170.
    http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/faculty/tashman/PSTAT170/PSTAT170Spring2010.htm
  8. U of Manitoba Archives. See ACT4000.
    http://umanitoba.ca/actuary_club/Academic/Exam%20Archives.html
  9. Purdue. Some homework and tests.
    http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~figueroa/Teaching/Stat473/
  10. U. Mass. Check the miscellaneous link.
    https://www.math.umass.edu/~sullivan/441/misc

Actuarial MFE Books and Notes on the web


  1. A Discussion of Financial Economics in Actuarial Models A Preparation for the Actuarial Exam MFE/3F Marcel B. Finan Arkansas Tech University
    http://faculty.atu.edu/mfinan/actuarieshall/DFEM.pdf
  2. The Actuary's Free Study Guide for Exam 3F / Exam MFE (2nd ed) G. Stolyarov II, 2014
    http://rationalargumentator.com/actuaryguide/Stolyarov_MFE_Study_Guide.pdf
  3. Jim Bodurtha. Georgetown University. Notes and quizzes and Homework. Quite nice. Includes Futures (exam FM)
    https://msb040.msb.edu/faculty/bodurthj/unrestricted/teaching/syllabus-undergrad.htm
  4. Slides for John Hull's Options, Futures and Derivatives.
    http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/~hull/ofodslides/
  5. Tom Salisbury's MFE Class Notes. York University. Includes forwards and futures (exam FM)
    http://www.math.yorku.ca/~salt/courses/2281w12/2281.html
    You can change 12 to 11 or 13 and see the differences.
  6. Milica Cudina. The University of Texas at Austin. Financial Mathematics for Actuarial Applications (M339W/M389W).
    https://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/mcudina/course1.html
  7. Lecture Notes Derivatives Securities Professor Doron E. Avramov. 470 pp.
    http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~davramov/doron_avramov_derivatives.pdf
  8. Central Washington University. Yvonne Chueh. Notes and problems.
    http://www.cwu.edu/~chueh/Math440.htm
  9. Nao Mimoto. University of Akron. Notes and Exercises. Fall 2015.
    http://gozips.uakron.edu/~nmimoto/471/
  10. Michael Stecher. Texas A&M. Notes and tests.
    http://www.math.tamu.edu/~stecher/425/425-index.shtml
  11. Boyan Kostadiniv notes. CUNY Mat 2788.
    http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/bkostadinov/Site/MAT3788.html
  12. Rick Gorvett. U of Illinois. Math 476/567. A few slides plus test and homework problems and solutions.
    http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~gorvett/m476f15/home.html
  13. Natalia Humphreys. U. Texas Dallas. Formula sheets, by section.
    http://www.utdallas.edu/~nah103020/MFE%20AU15/FORMULAE_MFE.pdf

Actuarial Organizations


  1. Be an Actuary
    http://www.beanactuary.org/
  2. SOA Society of Actuaries
    http://www.soa.org/
  3. CAS Casualty Actuarial Society
    http://www.casact.org/
  4. Canadian Institute of Actuaries
    http://www.actuaries.ca/

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