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- Author:
- Suttie, T. R.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1947) 73: 37-65
Equity in bonus distribution
In the paper which I submitted to the Institute on 28 April 1944 I discussed the most equitable method of treating appreciation or depreciation in the assets of an office distributing its surplus by means of a uniform reversionary bonus. EQUITY IN BONUS ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 305
Message from the American actuarial bodies
THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES MESSAGE FROM AMERICAN ACTUARIAL BODIES At a joint meeting on 8 November 1945, the Actuarial Society of America and the American Institute of Actuaries adopted unanimously a Resolution of fraternal greetings and con- ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1947) 73: 20-36
Report of the Cohen Committee on Company Law Amendment: abstract of the discussion
20 REPORT OF THE COHEN COMMITTEE ON COMPANY LAW AMENDMENT THE following is an abstract of a discussion which took place at the Institute on 22 October 1945: Mr Lewis G. Whyte, F.F.A., in opening the discussion, referred briefly by way of ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Isaac, S. F.; Fowler, R. W. A.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 415-444
The financial investigation of charitable funds
There are in existence numerous charitable funds which provide financial assistance to members or their dependants in the form of either grants or annuities. It might at first sight appear doubtful whether an investigation of such funds on actuarial lines ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 151-153
The old hall of Staple Inn
151 THE OLD HALL OF STAPLE INN MEMBERS and Friends of the Institute have heard-in many cases with the characteristic rapidity of bad news-that,on an evening in August 1944, the Old Hall was smashed. The Council has decreed that some record of the ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Perks, W.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 377-414
Two-variable developments of the n-ages method
This paper is devoted mainly to the extension of the n-ages method of approximation for product-sums to summations in respect of two variables; some uses in valuation work of the formulae developed are indicated and illustrated arithmetically. Hitherto, ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 364-376
Full employment - the implications for insurance finance: abstract of the discussion
364 FULL EMPLOYMENT-THE IMPLICATIONS FOR INSURANCE FINANCE BY invitation of the Council, Mr G. L. Schwartz, B.A., B.Sc., Economic Adviser to the Kemsley Press and former Lecturer in Economics at the University of London, opened a discussion which ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Anderson, J. G.
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- Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries [TFA] (1938-1945) 17: 219-221
William Morgan and X-rays
WILLIAM MORGAN AND X-RAYS By J. G. ANDERSON, M.A [Submitted, January 1945] In a lecture on " William Morgan, F.R.S., 1750-1833 " that he read in December 1931 before the Faculty of Actuaries (Transactions, vol. xiv. Part I, No. 126), Sir William Elderton ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Foster, G. T.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 337-363
Some observations on life reassurance
3 3 7 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE REASSURANCE BY G. T. FOSTER, F.I.A. Assistant Actuary of the Mercantile and General Insurance Company, Ltd. [Submitted to the Institute, 26 January 1945] A NUMBER of papers have been submitted to the International ... read more >>