Dr. Weishaus is the author of the ASM manual for Exam C/Exam 4 and also teaches a university course for this exam.

Description of e-Course

The C/4 Coaching Actuaries e-Course has been co-developed by ASM and ADAPT to enable student mastery of the C/4 material. Unlike any online seminar in the market, this e-Course will provide you with:

• Complete 13th Edition of the ASM Manual available online (non downloadable, non printable). For a detailed description of the ASM manual, including excerpts, see below.
• Complete C/4 theory: More than 41 hours of instruction by Dr. Abraham Weishaus, Ph.D., F.S.A., CFA, M.A.A.A.
• Video practice problems
• 10 practice exams
• Over 1,000 practice problems and solutions
• Unlimited access to ADAPT. For a detailed description of ADAPT, visit www.coachingactuaries.com.
• Direct author and instructor support via the Coaching Actuaries exclusive Actuaries4u

A deluxe version of the e-course that includes a paper copy of the complete ASM manual is also available.

For more details, including the terms of the subscription, special pricing for students, and any introductory offers, visit www.coachingactuaries.com.

Description of Manual

Online study manuals (eManuals), with distinct benefits over paper manuals, such as practice problems in CBT format, electronic search capability and access to the authors. For more details, visit www.coachingactuaries.com.

This manual offers comprehensive coverage of the syllabus for SOA Exam C and CAS Exam 4. In its 58 lessons, the following topics are reviewed:

• Parametric distributions
• Risk measures
• Coverage modifications, including deductibles, claims limits, coinsurance, and inflation
• Discrete distributions
• Compound models
• Aggregate deductibles
• Empirical estimators, including ogives, product-limit and Nelson-Aalen
• Kernel smoothing
• Parametric estimation, including method of moments, percentile matching, and maximum likelihood
• Hypothesis testing
• Limited fluctuation credibility
• Bayesian credibility
• Buhlmann credibility
• Empirical Bayes methods
• Simulation using the inversion method
• Bootstrap approximation

The manual has about 1400 pages, about 250 examples, 72 in-lesson excercises, and about 1300 end-of-lesson excercises, 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 ten full-length (35-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 Klugman textbook for the exam, as well as the other text options where available, are referenced in each lesson if you wish to use them.

The 13th edition - 2nd printing incorporates corrections of all errata through the date of publication.

Three Original Practice Exams

This manual contains three original practice exams, with detailed solutions.

Description of Flashcards - Exam C/4

Flashcards help you review and learn important formulas and concepts.

The ASM C/4 flashcard package contains 343 cards covering the formulas and concepts of the course. Each card is categorized by topic, allowing you to limit your review to selected topics. Each card also has a cross-reference to the lesson, page, and formula or table number (where applicable) in the ASM C/4 manual, 13th edition. Students with older editions can use the table that is provided in the package to translate the lesson numbers to the corresponding lesson numbers in their edition.

A unique feature of these cards is a rating system, indicating the relative importance of each card.