Volume 114 (1987)

Address by the President. Risk and expectation. - Field, M. H. p.1-14.
Presentation of an Institute Finlaison Medal to Alasdair David Wilkie. p.15-19.
An option pricing approach to bonus policy. In memoriam Anthony P Limb. - Wilkie, A. D. p.21-90.
Matching and portfolio selection: Part 1. - Wise, A. J. p.113-133.
Notes on the Financial Times-Actuaries Equity Share Indices in 1986. - Brumwell, J. C. H. p.143-152.
Objectives and methods of funding defined benefit pension schemes. - McLeish, D. J. D.; Stewart, C. M. p.155-225.
Assessing the solvency and financial strength of a general insurance company. - Daykin, C. D.; Bernstein, G. D.; Coutts, S. M.; Devitt, E. R. F.; Hey, G. B.; Reynolds, D. I. W.; Smith, P. D. p.227-325.
Graduation: some experiments with kernel methods. - Bloomfield, D. S. F.; Haberman, S. p.339-369.
Control of unfunded and partially funded systems of payments. - Taylor, G. C. p.371-392.
A linear approach to loan and valuation problems. - Brace, A. E. p.393-402. Corrigendum.
The determination of life office appraisal values. - Burrows, R. P.; Whitehead, G. H. p.411-465.
Long-term sickness and invalidity benefits: Forecasting and other actuarial problems. - Haberman, S. p.467-550. Corrigendum.
Matching and portfolio selection: Part 2. - Wise, A. J. p.551-568.
A short note on the construction of life tables and multiple decrement tables. - Waters, H. R.; Wilkie, A. D. p.569-580.
On the risk adjusted discount rate for determining life office appraisal values. - Sherris, M. p.581-589.
Bias in q and m rate estimates. - Roberts, L. A. p.591-599.
Assessing the solvency and financial strength of a general insurance company (JIA 114) (Correspondence). - Collett, R. L. p.607-609.

Mortality investigations and studies

Mortality of impaired lives 1974-1983. - Leighton, M. p.91-111.
The recent trend of mortality in Great Britain. - Daykin, C. D. p.135-141.
Mortality at the highest ages. - Thatcher, A. R. p.327-338.

Conference, seminar and meeting reports

First one-day seminar, Staple Inn, 27 November 1986. - Southall, S. M. p.403-405.
Life office seminar. - Clark, P. N. S. p.600.

Book reivews

Reviews I

• Stock life insurance company profitability and workable competition, by S. Travis Pritchett and Ronald P. Wilder. - Johnson, T. A. p.153.

Reviews II

• Survival models and their estimation, by Dick London. - Carroll, P. S. p.409.
• An introduction to non-life insurance mathematics, by Bjorn Sundt. - Carroll, P. S. p.409-410.

Reviews III

• An introduction to the mathematics of finance, by J. J. McCutcheon and W. F. Scott. - Carne, S. A. p.603.
• Pensions: the problems of today and tomorrow, by Bernard Benjamin, Steven Haberman, George P. Helowicz, Geraldine Kaye and A. David Wilkie. - Scadden, R. W. p.603-604.
• People count. A history of the General Register Office, by Muriel Nissel. - Scadden, R. W. p.604.
• Living with risk. The British Medical Association Guide, by Michael Henderson. - Scadden, R. W. p.605.

Other articles

Articles, papers and publications of actuarial interest. p.408.
Articles, papers and publications of actuarial interest. p.601-602.
Papers presented to the Staple Inn Actuarial Society and to provincial actuarial societies, 1986-87. p.407.