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CAS Exam 8 Study Program

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Printed Materials
2008 Actuarial Notes Volumes I, II
Preparatory Tests Volume III (Ultimate Only)

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Actuarial Notes (study manuals)
General Overview

Number of pages: Approximately 800 (Vol 1 and 2)

Volume 1: Portfolio Theory; Capital Markets; Fixed Income; Futures Forwards and Swaps (covers Sections A-D of the CAS Syllabus.)
Available 1/15/08

Volume 2: Options, Asset Liability Management, Financial Risk Management, and Valuation (covers Sections E-I of the CAS Syllabus of Exams).
Available 12/26/07

Volume 3: Independently Authored Preparatory Tests. (Included in the Ultimate Study Program only).

Volume 3 contains 5 Preparatory Tests (IN PAPER FORMAT).
Each test contains questions and solutions from sub sections of the CAS exam 8 syllabus readings.

Includes independently authored questions drawn from the two main texts used for Sections A-D: Investments (2008) by Bodie, Kane, and Marcus and Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (2006) by Hull. Includes questions from many of the remaining articles as well.
Available 3/28/08

Changes And New Additions To The 2008 Syllabus Readings
Bodie, Z.; Kane, A.; and Marcus, A.J., Investments (Seventh Edition), McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2008. Chapter or section citations are listed under the appropriate learning objective, and include Chapters 1, 2, 6-16, 18, and 25.

Finally, there have been a fair number of changes to the CAS Learning Objectives (LO) and Knowledge Statements (KS). These LO and KS are HIGHLY correlated to the types of questions appearing on the past CAS exams.

Content: Links to excerpts from the manual are given below. Print out the content and then compare our summarizations within these excerpts to the corresponding pages from the syllabus readings. These excerpts are fair representations of the quality you can expect from all our articles and solutions to past CAS exam questions. Exam 8 Study Manual Excerpts

"The Greek Letters" Chapter 15-pages 359-362, Hull. (pdf)

"Solvency Measurement for Property Liability RBC Applications" - pages 656-662, Butsic, R.P. (pdf)

2006 - Exam 8 - Question 20 (and solution) (pdf)

2000 - Exam 8 - Question 32 (and solution) (pdf)

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