Editorial for special issue on advances in Actuarial Science and quantitative finance.

This article provides an overview of all papers published on the special issue, Advances in Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance. The special issue is intended to collect articles that reflect the latest development and emerging topics in these closely related two areas. Topics included in this special issue range from actuarial and risk theory, to optimal control for finance and insurance, to statistical inferences of financial and insurance models, to pricing, valuation and reserving.