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Articles, papers and publications of actuarial interest
303 ARTICLES, PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS OF ACTUARIAL INTEREST BY B. BENJAMIN, PH.D., F.I.A., W. ELRICK, F.I.A., H. W. HAYCOCKS, B.Sc. (ECON.), F.I.A., AND P. D. JOHNSON, M.A., F.I.A. UNITED NATIONS Economic Bulletin for Europe, Vol. 10, No. 1, May ... read more >>
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Notes on other actuarial journals
296 NOTES ON OTHER ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY H. L. SEAL, B.Sc., PH.D., F.F.A., J. HAMILTON-JONES, M.A., F.I.A., F.S.S., AND C. J. CORNWALL, M.A., F.I.A., F.S.S. AUSTRALASIA Transactions of the Actuarial Society of Australasia, 9, 1954, 1955, 1956 ... read more >>
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Continuous mortality investigation - pensioners under life-office pension schemes: continuous investigation results for 1952-55
77 CONTINUOUS MORTALITY INVESTIGATION—PENSIONERS UNDER LIFE-OFFICE PENSION SCHEMES CONTINUOUS INVESTIGATION RESULTS FOR 1952–55 A REPORT published in J.I.A. 80, 395, and T.F.A. 22, 153, gave results for male lives in the pensioners’ section of the ... read more >>
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Articles, papers and publications of actuarial interest
105 CLASSIFICATION OF STOCK EXCHANGE SECURITIES BY INDUSTRY BY J. PLYMEN, F.I.A. WHEN reviewing an investment portfolio the most convenient order to list the securities in the past was that of the Stock Exchange Official List, showing the ... read more >>
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Some thoughts on annuity business
SOME THOUGHTS ON ANNUITY BUSINESS by G. C. CROOK (A paper discussed by the Society on 21 March 1958) WHEN closing the discussion on the Finance Act, 1956, at the Sessional Meeting held at the Institute in November 1956, A. G. Simons commented that the ... read more >>
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Reviews
R E V I E W Health in Industry, published on behalf of the London Transport Executive [Pp. 177. London: Butterworth and Co. 1956. Price 35*-] F. H. Spratling and F. J. Lloyd submitted a paper to the Institute in 1951, entitled 'Personnel Statistics and ... read more >>
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Reviews II
232 REVIEWS An Introduction to probability Theory and its Applications. By WILLIAM FELLER [2nd edn. Pp. xv + 461. New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall. 1957. 86s.] IN the Journal review of the first edition of this book (J.I.A. ... read more >>
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Notes on the Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries
NOTES ON THE TRANSACTIONS OF ACTUARIES 37, 1 (No. 257), 1980 MCKINNON, D. D. Presidential Address. THE FACULTY OF THORNTON, M. D. Actuaries and Long-term Insurance Business: considers, in particular, the duties and responsibilities of the Appointed ... read more >>
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Experiments in mortality graduation and projection using a modification of Thiele's formula
212 EXPERIMENTS IN MORTALITY GRADUATION AND PROJECTION USING A MODIFICATION OF THIELE’S FORMULA BY H. A. R. BARNETT, F.I.A., A.S.A., F.S.S. Consulting Actuary IN a paper discussed in 1955 (J. I.A 81, 105) the author suggested that certain ... read more >>
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Corrigendum
CORRIGENDUM L. V. Martin has kindly pointed out an unfortunate error in our paper on 'Applications of Sequential Methods to Mortality Data' (J.S.S. 14, pp. 84-93). Column (5) of Table 1 (p. 86) is in error by twice column (4), so that, for example, the ... read more >>
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Announcement of prize award
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZE AWARD O N the completion of each volume of the Journal, the Committee of the Institute of Actuaries Students' Society may award a prize or prizes, not exceeding six guineas in total value, for meritorious contributions to the ... read more >>
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Memoirs I
109 MEMOIR PERCY MUTER THE death at age 94 of Percy Muter, F.I.A., occurred at Wellington, New Zealand, on 20 July 1957. He was born on 27 May 1863, and was the first colonial candidate to attain the Fellowship of the Institute of Actuaries, under ... read more >>
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Valuation of pension fund assets
VALUATION OF PENSION FUND ASSETS by D. F. GILLEY AND D. FUNNELL (A paper discussed by the Society on I November I957) PART 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES IT has been remarked on many occasions that whilst there is a plethora of material which has been contributed ... read more >>
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Reviews I
110 REVIEWS Probability, Statistics and Truth. By RICHARD VON MISES. [2nd English edition. Pp. ix + 244. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1957. 28s.] THE first English edition of this book appeared in 1939 and was a translation of the second ... read more >>
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Reviews
REVIEWS Life and Other Contingencies, Vol. 11. By P. F. HOOKER, F.I.A., A.S.A., and L. H. LONGLEY-COOK, M.A., F.I.A., F.C.A.S., A.S.A. [Pp. ix+256. Cambridge University Press. 1957. Price 20s.] T H I S is another in the series of text-books ... read more >>
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Reviews
REVIEWS Statistics in Theory and Practice. By L. R. CONNOR and A. J. H. MORRELL. [London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd. 1957.] T H I S is a completely revised edition of the text-book of the same title by Connor first published in 1932. The revision ... read more >>
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Notes on the Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries
ARTICLES, PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS OF ACTUARIAL INTEREST SHORT-TERM PREDICTION OF HIV INFECTION AND AIDS IN ENGLAND AND WALES (H.M.S.O.—ISBN 0 11 321191 0) (December 1988) Report of a working group (chaired by Sir David Cox and with Professor A. D. ... read more >>
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Notes on other actuarial journals
230 NOTES ON OTHER ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY H. L. SEAL, B.Sc., PH.D., F.F.A., J. HAMILTON-JONES, M.A., F.I.A., AND C. J. CORNWALL, M.A., F.I.A., F.S.S. SWITZERLAND Mitteilungen der Vereinigung sckweizerischer Versickerungsmathematiker, 57, 1957, part ... read more >>
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The recent trend of mortality in Great Britain
281 THE RECENT TREND OF MORTALITY IN GREAT BRITAIN BY L. V. MARTIN, F.I.A. of the Government Actuary’s Department IN continuation of the tables given by W. S. Hocking in J.I.A. 83, 295–99, central death-rates in age-groups for males and females ... read more >>
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Report and accounts, 1956-1957
THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES STUDENTS' SOCIETY: REPORT AND ACCOUNTS Report by the Committee for the Session 1956-57 THE membership of the Society on 30 June 1957 was as follows: Fellows ... Associates Students Total ... 6 2 1 1 0 3 259 ... 983 The ... read more >>