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Author:: Isaac, S. F.; Fowler, R. W. A.

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 415-444

The financial investigation of charitable funds

There are in existence numerous charitable funds which provide financial assistance to members or their dependants in the form of either grants or annuities. It might at first sight appear doubtful whether an investigation of such funds on actuarial lines ... read more >>

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 151-153

The old hall of Staple Inn

151 THE OLD HALL OF STAPLE INN MEMBERS and Friends of the Institute have heard-in many cases with the characteristic rapidity of bad news-that,on an evening in August 1944, the Old Hall was smashed. The Council has decreed that some record of the ... read more >>

Author:: Perks, W.

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 377-414

Two-variable developments of the n-ages method

This paper is devoted mainly to the extension of the n-ages method of approximation for product-sums to summations in respect of two variables; some uses in valuation work of the formulae developed are indicated and illustrated arithmetically. Hitherto, ... read more >>

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 364-376

Full employment - the implications for insurance finance: abstract of the discussion

364 FULL EMPLOYMENT-THE IMPLICATIONS FOR INSURANCE FINANCE BY invitation of the Council, Mr G. L. Schwartz, B.A., B.Sc., Economic Adviser to the Kemsley Press and former Lecturer in Economics at the University of London, opened a discussion which ... read more >>

Author:: Anderson, J. G.

Source:: Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries [TFA] (1938-1945) 17: 219-221

William Morgan and X-rays

WILLIAM MORGAN AND X-RAYS By J. G. ANDERSON, M.A [Submitted, January 1945] In a lecture on " William Morgan, F.R.S., 1750-1833 " that he read in December 1931 before the Faculty of Actuaries (Transactions, vol. xiv. Part I, No. 126), Sir William Elderton ... read more >>

Author:: Foster, G. T.

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 337-363

Some observations on life reassurance

3 3 7 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE REASSURANCE BY G. T. FOSTER, F.I.A. Assistant Actuary of the Mercantile and General Insurance Company, Ltd. [Submitted to the Institute, 26 January 1945] A NUMBER of papers have been submitted to the International ... read more >>

Author:: Craig, W. G.

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 306-336

Towards a managed monetary system

It is now widely recognized that the future must see far-reaching changes in our monetary system, and that these changes must be in the direction of a conscious and planned management, as distinct from leaving the system to be regulated in a more or less ... read more >>

Author:: Porteous, D. A.

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 300-303

Mortality of the European members of the services in India (Correspondence)

300 CORRESPONDENCE (To the Editors of the Journal of the Institute of Actuaries) Mortality of European members of the Services in India SIRS, In the discussion following the reading of Professor Vaidyanathan’s paper on Mortality of Indian Assured ... read more >>

Author:: Simmonds, R. C.

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 140-150

Address by the President

T H E I N S T I T U T E O F A C T U A R I E S ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT, REGINALD CLAUD SIMMONDS [Delivered 27 October 1944] ANY author, even he who battles with the composition of a Presidential Address, has to make up his mind on the matter of using ... read more >>

Author:: Suttie, T. R.

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 203-228

The treatment of appreciation or depreciation in the assets of a life assurance fund

I have limited this paper to the consideration of appreciation or depreciation in fixed interest-bearing securities resulting from a fall or rise in the general level of interest rates and not from any alteration in the intrinsic value of the securities, ... read more >>

Author:: Daw, R. H.

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 174-202

On the validity of statistical tests of the graduation of a mortality table

An important part of the work of an actuary consists in making and testing graduations of mortality statistics. Much space has been devoted in the Journal to methods of graduation, but for many years, apart from the recent paper by H. L. Seal (J.I.A. Vol. ... read more >>

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 419

Notes on the Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries

Notes on Foreign Actuarial Journals 419 E. ZWINGGI. Leben und Sterben in mathematischer Darstellung. A his- tory of the development of the idea of a Law of Mortality. K. STAUBER. Beiträge zur Theorie der Kompakttafel. These are Life Assurance Mortality ... read more >>

Author:: Brown, H.

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 101-123

A note on the Registrar-General"s reports on occupational mortality in England and Wales in connexion with recent censuses

The recent publication of the Registrar-General's Report on Occupational Mortality in England and Wales in connexion with the 1931 Census has suggested that a Note on this Report and its recent predecessors, with reference mainly to the methods employed in ... read more >>

Author:: Hocking, W. S.

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 99-100

The recent trend of mortality in England and Wales

99 NOTES ON THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE FACULTY OF ACTUARIES Vol. 29, PART 1 (No. 219), 1964 ANDERSON, J. L.Presidential Address, pp. 1-20. The President considered the manage- ment of a life office under the headings qualification for management, ... read more >>

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 460

Birthday honours, 1942: Sir George Epps

460 BIRTHDAY HONOURS, 1942 SIR GEORGE EPPS, K.B.E. A M O N G those honoured by His Majesty the King in the Birthday Honours List published on 11 June 1942 was Mr G. S. W. Epps, C.B., C.B.E., the Government Actuary of Great Britain, who re- ceived the ... read more >>

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 461-464

Review

461 NOTES ON THE FINANCIAL TIMES- ACTUARIES INDEX by R. H. PAIN, F.I.A., F.S.S. 1. Continuous review of constituents During 1967 a further number of companies has been included amongst the constituents of the Index in order to replace companies ... read more >>

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 183-184

Memoirs I

183 REVIEWS Introduction to Demography. By MORTIMER SPIEGELMAN. [Revised edition 1968, pp. 514. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. U.S.A. $15] THE first edition was favourably reviewed in J.I.A. 82, 162 as a ‘textbook of very high quality’ ... read more >>

Author:: MacGillivray, E. J.

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 142-168

Legal notes

presume the death of the person whose life is assured if for a period of not less than 7 years no news has been received of him by those who would naturally hear of him if he were alive and such enquiries and searches as the circumstances suggest have ... read more >>

Author:: Elderton, W. P.; Nicholl, C. C.

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 322-326

Notes on foreign actuarial journals

322 NOTES ON FOREIGN ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY SIR W.P.ELDERTON,C.B.E.,F.I A.,F.F.A.,PH.D.(Oslo), C. C. NICHOLL, O.B.E., B.A., F.I.A., F.F.A. AND H. L. SEAL, B.Sc, F.F.A. SCANDINAVIA Skandinavisk Aktuarietidskrift, 1940, Parts III and IV H. HADWIGER. Eine ... read more >>

Source:: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 327-332

Official publications

327 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 October 1941, containing ... read more >>