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Anyone heard from BCG?

Yeah, I suppose so if you make get co-op as you will definitely get an actuarial job. Otherwise, you should consider that atm there is an oversupply of actuarial grads.

Nearly all Actuarial Co-op students have UAIs of 99.5+.

Yeah, the 4th yr subjects go pretty deep, but for some you don't need to have a very strong maths background, as usually Discrete is good enough. eg. number theory, combinatorics, geometry, graph theory

Badabagan and the ground floor of the Webster building

Analysis is probably the most useful of all courses. For computing, I guess it would be wise to do courses in: - numerical analysis - analysis of algorithms. eg probability, graph theory - algebra - statistics - data mining etc

Except for pure, all are symbol-pushing subjects.

MATH3821 - statistical computing MATH3841 - has some time series UNSW doesn't offer a postgrad time series course anymore, so you probably would have to do it at USyd through some cross-institutional study program thingy. Ask Maths about the details. (Time series can be learnt elsewhere too...

Do you do Maths at UNSW? If so, I would highly recommend studying the following: - analysis and measure theory - stochastic processes - numerical analysis. eg for PDEs - optimisation - statistical computing - time series

Stats is useful for all disciplines. The non-physics kind of applied stuff, such as optimisation theory and numerical analysis, are also useful for finance. I suggest doing a bit of both.

Lol..wtf were you learning in 1st yr linear algebra? Watch out for the stuff on tensors as it helps to have some kind of physics background/intuition.

Caution: PDE theory is quite hard. MATH3121 would be useful to understand the PDE approach to solving the Black-Scholes equation. However, most of the current finance theory takes a more probabilistic approach so it would be more useful to do MATH3901 Stochastic Processes. MATH3311...

Commerce/Science - the best of both worlds :D

The changes are listed here: http://www.actuaries.org.uk/files/pdf/students/changes/2007/ct8_2007.pdf Yes, I'm aware of that. I'm tossing up between the uni subject or the external exam for CT8. Back to my question....Will these changes come into effect next year at the university level?

Equities. Which other places (Actuarial or IB) did u get interviews from?

UBS have interviewed people already, like the other IBs. ND, which group in FICC - Corp Risk Mgmt and Corp Fin?

It seems that the CT8 syllabus has been revised to include more material on credit risk modelling (See bottom of pg 6 of http://www.actuaries.org.uk/files/pdf/students/syllabus/2006_CT8.pdf) As there are more active Actuarial students from Mac here, I would like to confirm that any changes...

Interesting.....

People who put down UNSW just aren't good enough to get in.

Guess again. I don't have uni on a Wednesday.