Life Insurance Principles (Subject SP2) provides an introduction to the main principles and knowledge required in life insurance, and how these principles can be applied in simple scenarios.
Life Insurance Specialist Advanced (Subject SA2) further develops the principles from Subject SP2, providing a more in depth understanding. In particular, it considers in much more detail the environment in which a life insurance company operates, which will include life insurance markets, regulation, legislation, taxation, financial management, monitoring and strategies.
The aim of Life Insurance Principles (SP2) is to develop a student’s ability to apply, in simple situations, the main principles of actuarial planning and control that are relevant to the provision of life insurance business.
It builds on material covered in earlier subjects and seeks to equip a student with the skills and broad working understanding of life insurance business to the level that may be required of a qualified actuary in a life insurance company.
It is 3 hours and 20 mins-based assessment.
In the SP subjects, the approximate split of assessment across these three skill types is 25% Knowledge, 50% Application and 25% Higher Order Skills.