New book on mortality modelling for actuaries

Cambridge University Press has published a new book on mortality modelling by Professor Angus S. Macdonald, Dr. Stephen J. Richards and Dr. Iain D. Currie.  The book covers aspects of parametric modelling for actuaries working in pensions, life insurance and reinsurance.  The book shows how to fit models to portfolio experience data in R, and also explores the fitting of well-known models for forecasting future mortality rates.

A discount is available when pre-ordering from Cambridge University Press.  The book can also be ordered on Amazon and R source programs from the book are available for download here.