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Chapter 2. Cashflows.
Manual for SOA Exam FM/CAS Exam 2.
Chapter 2. Cashflows.
Section 2.3. Yield rates.
c 2009. Miguel A. Arcones. All rights reserved.
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"Arcones' Manual for the SOA Exam FM/CAS Exam 2,
Financial Mathematics. Fall 2009 Edition",
available at http://www.actexmadriver.com/
c 2009. Miguel A. Arcones. All rights reserved. Manual for SOA Exam FM/CAS Exam 2.
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Chapter 2. Cashflows. Section 2.3. Yield rates.
Yield of return
Suppose that the future value at time t of the cashflow:
Investments V0 C1 C2 · · · Cn
Time 0 t1 t2 · · · tn
is FV . Then, the rate of return i of the investment satisfies the
equation,
FV = V0-t

Source: Arcones, Miguel A. - Department of Mathematical Sciences, State University of New York at Binghamton

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