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- Author:
- General Insurance Study Group
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- General Insurance Convention 1986
The effect of the US legal environment on casualty insurance business
It soon becomes apparent to a new entrant to an underwriting organisation writing US casualty insurance business in the London market that the business is significantly different from the liability insurance traditionally written in the UK domestic market. ... read more >>
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- Author:
- David Wilkie
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1986) 113: 273-294
The economic basis of interest rates
THE ECONOMIC BASIS OF INTEREST RATES BY A. D. WILKIE, M.A., F.F.A., F.I.A. 1. INTRODUCTION IN a discussion I had with Professor J. J. McCutcheon and Dr W. F. Scott, the authors of the new book on compound interest, An Introduction to the Mathematics ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1986) 113: 187-187
Notes on other actuarial journals (1986)
NOTES ON OTHER ACTUARIAL JOURNALS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Proceedings of the Casualty Actuarial Society Vol. 70 HECKMAN, P. E. and MEYERS, G. G. The Calculation of Aggregate Loss Distributions from Claim Severity and Claim Count Distributions. This ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1986) 113: 295-298
Articles, papers and publications of actuarial interest
ARTICLES, PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS OF ACTUARIAL INTEREST JOURNAL OF ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY Series ‘A’, 147 (1984) EL-SAYED NOUR, SUCHINDRAN, C.M. Multi-state mortality by cause of death: a life table analysis. The multi-state life table is ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Wilkie, A D
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1985) 112: 369-405
The Financial Times-Actuaries Fixed Interest Indices up to 1984
THE FINANCIAL TIMES–ACTUARIES FIXED INTEREST INDICES UP TO 1984 BY A. D. WILKIE, M.A., F.F.A., F.I.A INTRODUCTION THE new series of Financial Times–Actuaries fixed interest indices commenced in 1977 with the first publication in the Financial Times ... read more >>
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- Wilkie, A D
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1985) 112: 61-73
Some experiments with salary scales
Salary scales have been widely used in actuarial literature about pension schemes, but they do not seem to have been developed beyond the idea first introduced by Manly (1901) and used in a series of papers following this. King (1905), Bacon (1907) and ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries Students' Society [JSS] (1985) 28: 183-189
Synopses of papers presented, 1983-1984
SYNOPSES THE DIRECT MARKETING OF LIFE ASSURANCE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY ELAINE FAIRLESS (Synopsis of a paper presented to the Society on 17 January 1984) THIS paper describes the basic principles, methods and techniques of direct marketing, particularly ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Daykin, C D
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1985) 112: 75-85
The recent trend of mortality in Great Britain
This note continues an annual series on mortality rates in Great Britain; the previous note in the series appeared in JIA 111 and dealt with mortality in 1981. THE RECENT TREND OF MORTALITY IN GREAT BRITAIN BY C. D . DAYKIN, M.A., F.I.A., F.S.S. ... read more >>
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- Brumwell, J C H
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1985) 112: 87-95
Notes on the Financial Times-Actuaries Equity Share Indices in 1984
NOTES O N THE FINANCIAL TIMES–ACTUARIES EQUITY SHARE INDICES IN 1984 BY J . C. H . BRUMWELL, M.A., F.I.A. 1. Classification o f Stock Exchange Securities by Industry The original classifications w e r e set out in the 1970 note in this ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1985) 112: 108
Papers presented to the Students' Society and to provincial actuarial societies
PAPERS PRESENTED TO THE STUDENTS’ SOCIETY AND TO PROVINCIAL ACTUARIAL SOCIETIES, 1984–85 HAILS, R. T. G. ARBANEY, A SMITH, P. D. Birmingham Actuarial Society Recent Developments in the Pensions Scene (1/85). Bristol Actuarial Society Equity from ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1985) 112: 115
Corrigendum. JIA 111 part 2
CORRIGENDA J.I.A. 111, Part II P. 224, line 2: Manchester Guardian should r e a d Guardian. P. 383, line 9: The second occurrence o f e 2 should r e a d e 3 . P. 385, penultimate line: The formula should r e a d ... read more >>
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- Kipling, M. R.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries Students' Society [JSS] (1985) 28: 53-97
Small self-administered schemes in practice
SMALL SELF-ADMINISTERED SCHEMES IN PRACTICE BY M. R. KIPLING (A paper presented to the Society on 14 February 1984) 1. INTRODUCTION Everyman, I will go with thee and be thy guide. (Anon.) IN the last four years, the number of small self-administered ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1985) 112: 109-111
Articles, papers and publications of actuarial interest
ARTICLES, PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS OF ACTUARIAL INTEREST BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 289 (25 August 1984) JONES, D. R., GOLDBLATT. P. O. and LEON, D. A. Bereavement and cancer: some data on deaths of spouses from the longitudinal study of Office of ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1985) 112: 303-304
Reviews
REVIEWS Loss Distributions. By ROBERT V. HOGG & STUART A. KLUGMAN. Published by Wiley. This book was commissioned by the Actuarial Education and Research Fund and the Casualty Actuarial Society, as a textbook for the casualty actuarial ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Barnett, H A R
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1985) 112: 331-367
Criteria of smoothness
The main purpose of this paper is to consider what is meant by ‘smooth’, or rather what has been achieved in the past by the process of producing tables which have been regarded as smooth. There is a risk, which must be mentioned early, of the ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Howe, R. W. A.; Douglas, R. W.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries Students' Society [JSS] (1985) 28: 157-182
Developments in life reinsurance
DEVELOPMENTS IN LIFE REINSURANCE BY R. W. A. HOWE & R. W. DOUGLAS (A paper presented to the Society on 20 November 1984; originally presented to the Birmingham and Bristol Actuarial Societies on 26 January 1984) 1. INTRODUCTION IN order to portray ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Wilkie, A D
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1985) 112: 205-219
Some experiments with pensions accrual
The purpose of the experiment is to investigate the relationship between the amount of pension that may be deemed to have ‘accrued’ each year, and the amount of contribution (as a percentage of salary) needed to purchase the extra pension that ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Heywood, G
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1985) 112: 433-434
Page, Norman John (Memoir)
MEMOIR NORMAN JOHN PAGE The Chief Executive of the Institute over the years has been variously called Assistant Secretary, Secretary and latterly Secretary General. It is an appointment in which the last three holders have served the Institute in ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Benjamin, B; Bowley, R Q; Low, C W F; Brown, F G; Humphrey, G T; Frost, A J
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1985) 112: 97-106
Reports on the International Congress of Actuaries, Sydney, Australia, 21-27 October 1984
22nd INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ACTUARIES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 21-27 OCTOBER 1984 THE scientific programme covered the following subjects: NATIONAL REPORTS Political, social and o t h e r influences on the actuarial profession. SUBJECTS FOR ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries Students' Society [JSS] (1985) 28: 191-195
Occasional Actuarial Research Discussion Papers: introduction to the series, list of papers and summaries of recent papers
OCCASIONAL ACTUARIAL RESEARCH DISCUSSION PAPERS SINCE 1974 the Research Committee of the Institute has supported a Research Discussion Paper Series. Each paper is deposited in the Institute Library. These papers are made available by the Institute on the ... read more >>