Document library
-
Reviews I
75 REVIEWS The Law of Life Assurance. By DAVID HOUSEMAN, A.I.A, [Third Edition. Pp. xxiv + 224. Butterworth and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1949. 15s. 6d.] T H I S book is described by the author as an introduction to the Law of Life Assurance and ... read more >>
-
The trend of mortality from tuberculosis
143 THE TREND OF MORTALITY FROM TUBERCULOSIS BY R. H. DAW, B.Sc., F.I.A. Of Power-Samas Accounting Machines, Ltd. TUBERCULOSIS at the present time still causes over 20,000 deaths a year in England and Wales and is one of the major medical problems ... read more >>
-
Official publications
REVIEW Demographic Estimation f o r Developing Societies. By N . CARRIER and J . HOBCRAFT. [Pp. 204. London: Population Investigation Committee, London School o f Economics, 1971. £5.00.] THE AUTHORS originally intended to write ... read more >>
-
The Assurance Companies Rules, 1950
263 THE ASSURANCE COMPANIES RULES, 1950 Statutory Instruments 1950, No. 533 as amended by No, 643 The Assurance Companies Rules, 1950, which came into force x June 1950, supersede the Order of the Board of Trade dated 6 June 1910 (S.R. & O. 1910 (No. ... read more >>
-
Notes on the Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries
172 NOTES ON THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE FACULTY OF ACTUARIES VOL. XIX, PART II (No. 171), 1950 G. HEYWOOD and W. F. MARPLES. Pension Funds: Some Practical Points. Among the practical matters discussed are the construction and use of salary scales, ... read more >>
-
Official publications
173 OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS [The appearence of a publication in the following list does not imply that a formal review will not appear in the Journal.] ANNOTATED LIST of recent official publications issued to the end of February 1950, containing ... read more >>
-
The taxation of annuity funds
237 THE TAXATION OF ANNUITY FUNDS By G. V. BAYLEY, F.I.A. Assistant Actuary of The Equitable Life Assurance Society This paper, for which the author has been awarded a prize from the Messenger and Brown Prize Fund, was submitted for discussion to the ... read more >>
-
Notes on foreign actuarial journals
70 NOTES ON FOREIGN ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY SIR W. P. ELDERTON, K.B.E., PH.D. (OSLO), F.I.A., F.F.A., AND H. L. SEAL, PH.D., B.SC, F.F.A, CZECHOSLOVAKIA Aktuarské Vëdy, Vol. VIII, 1948-49, Part 3 K. PETR. Sur le calcul effectif des nombres de Bernoulli, ... read more >>
-
A note on the Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948
164 A NOTE ON THE INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE AND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT, 1948 BY K. J. BRITT, F.I.A., F.F.A. Actuary of the Britannic Assurance Company, Ltd. THIS Act, although dealing with a number of miscellaneous matters affecting industrial assurance ... read more >>
-
On the coefficients in the expansion of [formula] and [formula]
152 ON THE COEFFICIENTS IN THE EXPANSION OF eet AND e-et BY R. E. BEARD, M.B.E., F.I.A., F.S.S. Assistant General Manager of the Pearl Assurance Company, Ltd. THIS investigation has arisen out of D. C. Fraser’s note on the Gompertz Table (J.I.A. ... read more >>
-
Notes on foreign actuarial journals
168 NOTES ON FOREIGN ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY SIR W. P. ELDERTON, K.B.E., PH.D. (Oslo), F.I.A., F.F.A., AND H. L. SEAL, PH.D., B.Sc., F.F.A. AMERICA Transactions of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 1, Nov. 1949 WE welcome the first number of the ... read more >>
-
Official publications
284 OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS [The appearance of a publication in the following list does not imply that a formal review will not appear in the JOURNAL.] ANNOTATED L I S T of recent official publications issued to the end of May 1950, containing ... read more >>
-
A note on generalized equations for sickness rates
259 A NOTE ON GENERALIZED EQUATIONS FOR SICKNESS RATES BY J. C. S. HYMANS, M.A., F.F.A., F.S.S. Consulting Actuary I N §§ 12 and 13 of the paper by R. C. B. Lane and the writer (J.I.A. Vol. LXXVI, pp. 87-116) the discussion was confined to the algebraic ... read more >>
-
Reviews III
288 REVIEWS Population Studies. [A quarterly journal published for the Population Investigation Committee by Cambridge University Press. 10S. per quarterly issue.] Population Studies, a quarterly journal of demography, edited by Prof. D. V. Glass, is ... read more >>
-
Elementary generalizations upon Lidstone's approximation for two joint lives
253 ELEMENTARY GENERALIZATIONS UPON LIDSTONE'S APPROXIMATION FOR TWO JOINT LIVES BY HEINRICH JECKLIN, PH.D. Professor at the University of Zurich The following article is the completion of work that has been published by Dr Jecklin from time to time in ... read more >>
-
Notes on foreign actuarial journals
28l NOTES ON FOREIGN ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY SIR W. P. ELDERTON, K.B.E., PH.D. (OSLO), F.I.A., F.F.A., AND H. L. SEAL, PH.D., B.Sc, F.F.A. FRANCE Bulletin Trimestriel de I'Institut des Actuaires Francais, No. 190, March 1950 J. LOISEL. Le credit mutuel et ... read more >>
-
Graunt's life table
60 GRAUNT'S LIFE TABLE BY D. V. GLASS, PH.D. Professor of Sociology at the University of London (London School of Economics) Political arithmetic, or demography as we should now call it, was cradled in London where in 1662 a merchant, John Graunt ... read more >>
-
The mortality of annuitants: abstract of discussion
130 THE MORTALITY OF ANNUITANTS DISCUSSIONS on the mortality of annuitants took place at the Institute on 27 February 1950, and at the Faculty of Actuaries on 20 March 1950. The subject was discussed with particular reference to the note entitled ... read more >>
-
Notes on foreign actuarial journals
28l NOTES ON FOREIGN ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY SIR W. P. ELDERTON, K.B.E., PH.D. (OSLO), F.I.A., F.F.A., AND H. L. SEAL, PH.D., B.Sc, F.F.A. FRANCE Bulletin Trimestriel de I'Institut des Actuaires Francais, No. 190, March 1950 J. LOISEL. Le credit mutuel et ... read more >>
-
Report of the Royal Commission on Population: abstract of the discussion
38 REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON POPULATION T H E following is an abstract of a discussion which took place at the Institute on 5 December 1949: The President (Sir George Maddex, K.B.E.) said that their business that evening was to discuss the ... read more >>