ASM Study Manual for SOA Exam MLC: Life Contingencies, 6th Edition

ASM's Exam MLC manual offers comprehensive coverage of the syllabus for SOA Exam MLC. In its approximately 50 lessons, the following topics are reviewed: . Survival distributions and life tables . Insurances . Annuities . Premiums . Reserves . Models for multiple lives . Models for multiple decrements . Expenses and asset shares . Markov chains . Poisson processes The 6th edition of the manual has nearly 1050 pages, about 190 examples, and over 1200 end-of-lesson exercises, including both original and old exam questions, many of them taken from pre-2000 exams, which are not easily available, all with worked out solutions. In addition to these exercises, there are eight full-length (30-question) practice exams. An appendix has a cross reference to help you track down lessons corresponding to published 2000 and later exam questions, and there is an index. Many students have found this manual adequate by itself for exam preparation, but the two alternative textbooks for the exam are referenced in each lesson if you wish to use them.