ACTL2111 Financial Mathematics for Actuaries (UNSW Sydney): rated 3.1/5 overall across 12 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
ACTL2111 is a UNSW Sydney course taught by the UNSW Business School in School of Risk and Actuarial Studies. This page brings together its handbook details and what UNSW students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 精算师金融数学
Type: Undergraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: School of Risk and Actuarial Studies
Faculty: UNSW Business School
Level: Undergraduate Level 2
Handbook year: 2026
This course develops the financial mathematics required for the analysis of financial and insurance transactions. Topics covered include: mathematics of compound interest; analysis and valuation of annuities, bonds, loans and derivative securities; yield curves and immunisation; introduction to stochastic interest rate models and actuarial applications.
ACTL2111 has 12 scored reviews: overall 3.1/5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 12 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.1/5).
On Reddit: "Just did those two courses last term with a COMP course (doing ACTL/COMP), ended up making the exemption marks for both thankfully. You’ll most likely find that for any ACTL double degree, most of your time is devoted to the ACTL courses. They are definitely complicated courses …"
On Reddit: "Did this course in 2023. We were in the exact same situation in terms of only having past papers up to 2015 only. Not sure why it’s like this for 2111 but keep in mind that this is not the standard in actl courses, some courses will give you papers from a couple of years before …"
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Q: Is ACTL2111 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 12 reviews: overall 3.1/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches ACTL2111, and when is it offered?
A: ACTL2111 is taught by the UNSW Business School. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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