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The Statutory Duties of the Actuary. Version 5.1
Faculty and Institute of Actuaries Statutory Duties SD v5.1 ([1977-1978]) THE ACTUARY AND THE PUBLIC Members of the public would be well advised to seek professional actuarial guidance on a number of problems, such as those arising in connexion with the ... read more >>
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- Keith Feldman
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1977) 104: 227-240 Feldman, K S
The gilt-edged market reformulated
THIS GILT-EDGED MARKET REFORMULATED BY K. S. FELDMAN, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.I.A. 1. BACKGROUND 1.1. In this note it is argued that models of the gilt-edged market which are based on yield curves are unnecessarily restrictive and should not be expected to ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 343-344
Reviews
REVIEWS A Technical Basis for General Insurance. By S. W. CAFFIN. [The Law Book Company Limited] I T is difficult to produce a short review of this book. In the Middle Ages common practice would have dictated the publication, in Latin, of a ... read more >>
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- Brumwell, J C H
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 117-120
Notes on the Financial Times-Actuaries Index in 1975
2000 GENERAL INSURANCE CONVENTION 25-28 OCTOBER BAYESIAN NETWORKS AND DATA MINING Presenters: James OK, Dr Peter England, Dr Robert CowelI and Duncan Smith 117 Bayesian Networks and Data Mining James Orr, Dr Peter England, Dr Robert CowelI, Duncan ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 339
Notes on other actuarial journals
N O T E S O N O T H E R ACTUARIAL JOURNALS B Y J. HAMILTON-JONES, M.A., F.I.A., F. W. ESCHRICH, F.I.A., T . GRIMES, B.Sc., F.I.A., AND F. E. GUASCHI, F.I.A. FRANCE Bulletin Trimestriel de l’Institut des Actuaires Français, 8 6 , 1 9 ... read more >>
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- Pollard, J H
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 205-212
Premium loadings for non-participating business
Actuaries tend to use deterministic rather than stochastic methods and confine their calculations to the computation of expectations. The adverse effects of statistical fluctuations are usually avoided by including contingency margins in the calculations ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 133-136
Reviews
REVIEWS Francis Galton: The Life and Work of a Victorian Genius. BY D. W. FORREST. [Pp. x+340. Paul Elek. London 1974] KARL PEARSON wrote Galton’s biography in a work of some two thousand pages. The late C. P. Blacker, in his book ‘Eugenics: Galton ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 125-128
Articles, papers and publications of actuarial interest
125 REVIEWS The Gilt Edged Market. By ERIC CHALMERS. [Pp. xiv + 182. W. P. Griffith & Sons Ltd. London, 1967. 30s.] THE new edition of this book, which was privately issued in 1966, is greatly welcomed. The author develops in a clear and concise ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 341
Articles, papers and publications of actuarial interest
ARTICLES, PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS OF ACTUARIAL I N T E R E S T B Y E. J. W. D Y S O N , M.A., F.I.A., T . GRIMES, B.Sc., F.I.A., M. D. MAY, M.A., F.I.A., D. F. RENN, F.I.A. AND N. WILLIAMS, F.I.A. JOURNAL OF T ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 121-124
Notes on other actuarial journals
NOTES ON OTHER ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY J. HAMILTON-JONES, M.A., F.I.A., F. W. ESCHRICH, F.I.A., T. GRIMES, B.Sc., F.I.A. AND F. E. GUASCHI, F.T.A. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND The Institute of Actuaries of Australia and New Zealand, Transactions, 1972 ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 129-131
Hooker, Percy Francis; and Recknell, George Hugh (Memoirs)
129 MEMOIRS FRANK LAKEMAN COLLINS FRANK LAKEMAN COLLINS died on 20 July 1970 at the age of 94. After leaving Oundle, he worked for a year or so for a land agent in Bury St Edmunds before coming to London and entering the Clerical Medical and General ... read more >>
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- Martin, L V; Daykin, C D
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 213-221
The recent trend of mortality in Great Britain
Mortality rates in Great Britain have been considered in a series of notes, the last of which appeared in JIA 97, and dealt with mortality in 1970. THE RECENT TREND OF MORTALITY IN GREAT BRITAIN BY L. V . MARTIN, F.I.A. AND C. D . DAYKIN, M.A., ... read more >>
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- Langham, F R
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 323-336
Tax treatment of pension provision
The present authors, with G T Humphrey and R E Snelson, were associated in the preparation of a paper entitled ‘Pensions and Company Finance’ (JIA 96) which was concerned with many aspects of the financing of company pension arrangements in the ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 129-131
Hooker, Percy Francis; and Recknell, George Hugh (Memoirs)
Pricing for Bodily Injury Claims Within a UK Private Motor Account Stephen Jones & Grant Mitchell 129 Insurance Convention 1999 General Pricing for Bodily Injury Claims Within a UK Private Motor Account A spate of recent legislative changes has ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 229-232
Reviews
R E V I E W S Institutional Investment. By J. G. DAY and A. T. JAMIESON. AS stated in the preface this text book was written a t the invitation of the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries to assist a c t u a r i a l ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 129-131
Hooker, Percy Francis; and Recknell, George Hugh (Memoirs)
Pricing for Bodily Injury Claims Within a UK Private Motor Account Stephen Jones & Grant Mitchell 129 Insurance Convention 1999 General Pricing for Bodily Injury Claims Within a UK Private Motor Account A spate of recent legislative changes has ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 227-228
Spackman, Deryck Reginald; and Melville, Henry Edward (Memoirs)
MEMOIRS DERYCK REGINALD SPACKMAN A MEMORIAL Service was held on 3 0 J a n u a r y 1 9 7 6 a t St Clement’s Church, Strand. Mr G. V. Bayley, President of the Institute of Actuaries, gave the following Address: Deg Spackman was ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1976) 103: 227-228
Spackman, Deryck Reginald; and Melville, Henry Edward (Memoirs)
J.I.A. 120, I, 227–228 NOTES ON OTHER ACTUARIAL JOURNALS THE NETHERLANDS Verbond van Verzekeraars in Nederland Het Verzekerings-Archief DEEL 68-1991-3 SCHREURS, R. A. H. Cyclic patterns in the investment return of domestic life insurers. This paper ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Holbrook, J P
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1977) 104: 15-91
Investment performance of pension funds
This paper has its origins in practical work carried out over the last 6 years on behalf of a number of pension funds whose trustees wished to obtain an independent assessment of their investment performance. Annual investigations have been made with two ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Shedden, A D
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- Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries [TFA] (1975-1977) 35: 313-364
A practical approach to applying immunisation theory
In this paper an attempt is made to present the theory in such a way as to permit a more general application in practice. The conditions for immunisation are defined for functions whose characteristics, as well as values, are dependent on the rate of ... read more >>