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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 154-173
Considerations affecting life assurance policies in enemy and enemy-occupied territory: abstract of discussion, with a note on the Versailles Treaty of Peace - life assurance policies
154 CONSIDERATIONS AFFECTING LIFE ASSURANCE POLICIES IN ENEMY AND ENEMY-OCCUPIED TERRITORY THE following is an abstract of a discussion which took place at the Institute on 26 November 1943. Some notes concerning the treatment of life assurance ... read more >>
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- Melville, H. E.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 1-7
Address by the President
In considering the subject of my Address to you this evening my thoughts have naturally turned to the problems resulting from the War, and I propose later on to refer to some of these. But before doing so it is, I think, worth while to look back and to ... read more >>
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- Haynes, A. T.; Kirton, R. J.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 79-118
Income tax in relation to social security
This paper falls into three parts which form a progressive study involving: 1) proposals for the reform of the Income Tax system as related to personal assessments; 2) consideration of the interrelation of Income Tax and Social Security; 3) proposals ... read more >>
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- Shrewsbury, A. H.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 35-78
Income tax as affecting life assurance offices
The main object is to discuss principles and therefore many points of detail will be omitted, however intrinsically interesting they may be. Satisfactory consideration of principles entails reference to all classes of business which involve an actuarial ... read more >>
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- Boag, H.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 8-34
The valuation of the outstanding liability for payments during incapacity in respect of workmen's compensation in the coal mining industry
According to the Home Office Statistics of Compensation paid during the year 1938, nearly 40% of the number of cases of compensation in the seven main groups of industries in Great Britain occurred in the mining industry, and 80% of the compensation to ... read more >>
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- Penman, W.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 353-374
Address by the President
War conditions have added to our tasks and duties, whilst reducing the effective time available for their performance. Simultaneously, war conditions have introduced into our lives, I will not say an element of staleness, but a lack of freshness which robs ... read more >>
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- Simons, A. G.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 375-408
Group life and pension schemes
There are many references to pensions in the pages of the Journal, most of them to the provision of pensions by means of private funds. I am proposing, however, to deal with the provision of pensions and life assurance by means of what are known as group ... read more >>
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- Beard, R. E.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 193-227
The construction of a small-scale differential analyser and its application to the calculation of actuarial functions
In many problems arising from scientific investigations their theoretical formulation leads to differential equations, the numerical solution of which is frequently an extremely laborious process. To handle such problems various mechanical devices have ... read more >>
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- Penman, W.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 189-192
Presidential message
I hold very strongly the view that we ought to allow war conditions to disturb our ordinary routine as little as may be, but it is obvious that, under existing conditions, it is impossible at this season of the year to hold a General Meeting in the late ... read more >>
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- King, A. E.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 185-187
The Institute's motto by Bacon (Correspondence)
Soon after becoming a Student of the Institute I became acquainted for the first time with the wonderful Baconian motto which the Institute has caught unto itself and displays in such a prominent place on the front page of its Journal. I am quite sure that ... read more >>
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- King, A. E.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 185-187
The Institute's motto by Bacon (Correspondence)
Soon after becoming a Student of the Institute I became acquainted for the first time with the wonderful Baconian motto which the Institute has caught unto itself and displays in such a prominent place on the front page of its Journal. I am quite sure that ... read more >>
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- Seal, H. L.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 5-67
Tests of a mortality table graduation
A former President of the Institute once remarked that whereas the graduation of a mortality table might be considered a specialized technique not required by the practising actuary, the efficient testing of any graduation submitted to him should be an ... read more >>
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- Hocking, W. S.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1939) 70: 196-197
Review of the recent trend of mortality in England and Wales
REVIEW OF THE RECENT TREND OF MORTALITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES BY W. S. HOCKING, M.B.E.., FIA. of the Government Actuary’s Department IN continuation of the tables given in J.I.A. Vol. the central death-rates in agegroups for males and females ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1939) 70: 433
Birthday honours, 1939: Sir Bertram Galer
433 BIRTHDAY HONOURS 1939 SIR BERTRAM GALER AMONGST those honoured by His Majesty the King in the Birthday Honours published on 8 June 1939 was Mr Frederic Bertram Galer, F.I.A., D.L., M.A., J.P., for political and public services in Streatham. Sir ... read more >>
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- White, R. E.; Holmes, B. T.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1939) 70: 380-390
The effect of a change in the interest rate on life assurance premiums
The recent paper by Dr Hagstroem (J.I.A. Vol. 70) directs attention to the very closely related subject of the effect on life assurance premiums of changes in the rate of interest. Some four years ago, in the course of an address before the American Life ... read more >>
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- Burn, J.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1939) 70: 65-88
Stock exchange investments in theory and practice
The Council of the Institute of Actuaries having asked me to prepare a new edition of the lectures which I delivered in 1908 and 1909, I wish in the first place to say that I consider this not only as a great compliment but as a request which I feel it my ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1939) 70: 421-425
Official publications
421 REVIEWS Loss Distributions by ROBERT V. HOGG and STUART A. KLUGMAN (John Wiley and Sons) This book is concerned with individual losses from insured events such as motor accidents or thefts from private dwellings. As such it is clearly related ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1939) 70: 434
Twelfth International Congress of Actuaries
434 TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ACTUARIES WHILE the final decision as to holding a Congress or not rests with the Comité Permanent des Congrès Internationaux d'Actuaires, and no meeting of the Conseil de Direction of that body has been held since ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1939) 70: 269
Memoirs I
269 MEMOIR ANDERS LINDSTEDT 27 June 1854-16 May1939 ANDERS LINDSTEDT was born in a small village in the province of Dalecarlia, Sweden. He studied in the University of Lund, where atthe age of 23 he obtained the degree ofPh.D. and was appointed l ... read more >>
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- Elderton, W. P.; Nicholl, C. C.; Seal, H. L.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1939) 70: 211-219
Notes on foreign actuarial journals
211 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. AMERICA Transactions Actuarial Society of America, Vol. XXXIX, Part II C. F. B. ... read more >>