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Legal notes
LEGAL NOTES BY EVAN JAMES MACGILLIVRAY, B.A., LL.B. One of Her Majesty’s Counsel AND DAVID HOUSEMAN, A.I.A. (Solicitor) Secretary, The London Life Association Ltd. In re Leigh’s Marriage Settlement Ro110 v. Leigh and others Perpetuities-Rule in ... read more >>
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Notes on other actuarial journals
98 NOTES ON OTHER ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY SIR WILLIAM ELDERTON, K.B.E., PH.D. (OSLO), F.I.A., F.F.A., AND H. L. SEAL, B.Sc., PH.D., F.F.A. ARGENTINA Anales del Institute Ac uarial Argentina, Vol.I, Part I WE welcome this newjournal. ACERESONI, A. ... read more >>
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Articles and papers of actuarial interest
229 ARTICLES AND PAPERS OF ACTUARIAL INTEREST BY H. W. HAYCOCKS, B.Sc. (EcoN.), F.I.A., AND J. B. H. PEGLER, F.I.A. The British Joumal of Tuberculosis, Vol. XLVII, January 1953 BENJAMIN, B. Tuberculosis and social conditions inthe metropolitan ... read more >>
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Official publications
345 PRESENTATION OF INSTITUTE GOLD MEDAL TO MR FRANK MITCHELL REDINGTON The President (Dr Bernard Benjamin): In presenting a Gold Medal to Mr Frank Mitchell Redington in honour of actuarial work of pre-eminent importance I wondered where to begin, ... read more >>
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Reviews II
233 REVIEWS Life Contingencies. By Professor C. WALLACE JORDAN, F.S.A. [Society ofActuaries’ Text Book. Pp. xi+ 331. Published by the Society of Actuaries, Chicago, Illinois, 1952. $8.00.1 MEMBERS of the Institute may well take pride in the fact ... read more >>
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Memoirs II
349 MEMOIR REGINALD GEORGE MAUDLING AN event which caused a flutter at the time, but which must now be largely forgotten, brought about a change in the direction of the career of Reginald George Maudling. This event was the failure, after two years’ ... read more >>
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Notes on other actuarial journals
225 NOTES ON OTHER ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY SIR WILLIAM ELDERTON, K.B.E., PH.D. (OSLO), F.I.A., F.F.A., AND H. L. SEAL, B.Sc., PH.D., F.F.A. BELGIUM Bulletin de l’Association royale des Actuaires Belges, No. 56, 1952 RIJKERS, H. Sur la Dette latente et ... read more >>
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New developments in interpolation formulae
74 NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERPOLATION FORMULAE BY ERICH MICHALUP, LL.D. Professor at the University of Caracas ANY symmetrical interpolation formula m y be written i matrix form, e.g. the six-term interpolation formula for subdivision of an ... read more >>
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Reviews III
351 REVIEWS Pension and Widows’ and Orphans’ Funds. By R. J. W. CRABBE, F.I.A. and C. A. POYSER, M.A., F.I.A. [Pp. viii+240. Cambridge. Published for the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries atthe University Press, 1953. 20s.] THE ... read more >>
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Notes on other actuarial journals
336 NOTES ON OTHER ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY H. L. SEAL, B.Sc., PH.D., F.F.A. FRANCE Bulletin Trimestriel de L’ nstitut des Actuaires Fanfais No. 202, March 1953 BAUDEZ, G. Etude de distributions duns le cas des causes rythmees, pp. 23-37. Argues ... read more >>
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Memoirs I
116 MEMOIRS ARTHUR BARTON WOOD A DE c I s I o N made by the late Arthur B. Wood in 1893 resulted in one of the great actuarial careers of our time, a career that flourished until his death on 14 June 1952, in his 82nd year. Arthur Wood was always ... read more >>
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Some probability results for mortality rates based on insurance data
213 SOME PROBABILITY RESULTS FOR MORTALITY RATES BASED ON INSURANCE DATA BY JOHN E. WALSH of the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station INTRODUCTION IT is not usual in mortality investigations of insurance data to associate exactly one unit with each ... read more >>
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Official publications
111 REVIEWS Actuarial Practice of Life Assurance. By H. F. FISHER and J. YOUNG. [Pp. viii+450. Cambridge University Press, 1965. 50s.] THE training of students in the actuarial aspects of life office practice is of the first importance to the ... read more >>
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The valuation of last-survivor annuities
In recent years the number of last-survivor annuities on two lives, male and female, in some offices has grown so large that their valuation individually has become impracticable. It is the purpose of this note to record the results of some experiments in ... read more >>
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Some animal life tables
Any branch of knowledge is improved by a background. We understand English history better if we can compare it with that of other countries. We understand human anatomy better if we can compare man’s structure with that of other animals. So it may be ... read more >>
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Articles and papers of actuarial interest
106 ARTICLES AND PAPERS OF ACTUARIAL INTEREST BY H. W. HAYCOCKS, B.Sc. ECON.), F.I.A., NDJ. B. H. PEGLER, F.I.A. ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY Journal, Series A Vol. cxv, Part I,1952 The Teaching of Statistics in Schools This Report considers ... read more >>
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Official publications
231 OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS [The appearance of a publication in the following list does not imply that a formal review ill not appear in the JOURNAL.] ANNOTATED LIST of recent official publications issued to the end of February 1953, containing ... read more >>
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Articles and papers of actuarial interest
343 ARTICLES AND PAPERS OF ACTUARIAL INTEREST BY H. W. HAYCOCKS, B.SC.(ECON.), F.I.A., AND J. B. H. PEGLER, F.I.A. ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY journal, Series A Vol. cxvI, Part I, 1953 KENDALL, M. G. The Analysis of Economic Time Series-Part I: ... read more >>
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The a and b distribution concept
221 THE ‘a’ AND ‘b’ DISTRIBUTION CONCEPT BY E. OLIFIERS Consulting Actuary, Rio de Janeiro THIS concept has been used in demographic statistics, but not in insurance statistics, to find exposed-to-risk formulae. In my paper The Evolution of the ... read more >>
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The recent trend of mortality in England and Wales
THE RECENT TREND OF MORTALITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES By W. S. HOCKING, O.B.E., F.I.A. of the Government Actuary's Department In continuation of the tables given in J.I.A. LXXVIII, 125-28, central death- rates in age-groups for males and females separately ... read more >>