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- Author:
- Elderton, W. P.; Nicholl, C. C.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 124
Notes on foreign actuarial journals
124 NOTES ON FOREIGN ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY SIR W. P. ELDERTON, C.B.E., F.I.A., F.F.A., PH.D. (Oslo), AND C. C. NICHOLL, O.B.E., B.A., F.I.A., F.F.A. SWITZERLAND Mitteilungen der Vereinigung schweizerischer Versicherungsmathematiker, Vol. XLIII, Part ... read more >>
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- Hocking, W. S.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 522-524
The recent trend of mortality in England and Wales
522 THE RECENT TREND OF MORTALITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES BY W. S. HOCKING, M.B.E., F.I.A. of the Government Actuary’s Department IN continuation of the tables given on pp. 122–3 of this volume of the Journal, the central death rates in age groups for ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Elderton, W. P.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1947) 73: 250-284
Merchant seamen during the war
The paper deals with the mortality and sickness of merchant seamen and with certain other matters that were connected in one way or another with the main subject. 250 MERCHANT SEAMEN DURING THE WAR BY SIR WILLIAM P. ELDERTON, K.B.E., PH.D. (Oslo), ... read more >>
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- Rowell, A. H.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1947) 73: 1-19
Address by the President
I ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT, JOHN HENRY GUNLAKE, C.B.E. [Delivered 24 October 1960] WHEN the roof-truss now set in the wall above the gallery at the far end of the Hall had been playing its part in sheltering this ancient place for nearly a hundred ... read more >>
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- Rowell, A. H.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1947) 73: 1-19
Address by the President
I ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT, JOHN HENRY GUNLAKE, C.B.E. [Delivered 24 October 1960] WHEN the roof-truss now set in the wall above the gallery at the far end of the Hall had been playing its part in sheltering this ancient place for nearly a hundred ... read more >>
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- Pedoe, A.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1947) 73: 213-249
The trend of adult mortality in England and the United States
213 THE TREND OF ADULT MORTALITY IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES BY ARTHUR PEDOE, B.Sc., F.I.A., F.A.S. Actuary and Secretary for Canada of the Prudential Assurance Company, Ltd. [Submitted to the Institute, 29 April 1946] ‘The death rate is a ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Wood, Sir William V.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1947) 73: 109-112
The value of the actuary in general statistical and administrative work (Alfred Watson Memorial Lecture)
109 ALFRED WATSON MEMORIAL LECTURE THE VALUE OF THE ACTUARY IN GENERAL STATISTICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE WORK THE Alfred Watson Memorial Lectures have been arranged as the result of a gift of £500 made anonymously to the Institute by a senior member as ... read more >>
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- Bailey, W. G.; Haycocks, H. W.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1947) 73: 179-212
A synthesis of methods of deriving measures of decrement from observed data
Like all sciences, actuarial science has been developed piecemeal. From time to time theory has been constructed attempting to systematize and unify practices which had already been adopted by the working actuary. In the case of the general treatment of ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1947) 73: 99-108
The actuarial aspects of post-war problems: abstract of the discussion
99 THE ACTUARIAL ASPECTS OF POST-WAR PROBLEMS THE following is an abstract of a discussion which took place at the Institute on 25 February 1946: Mr A. H. Shrewsbury, in opening the discussion, said that the first feeling of actuaries in approaching ... read more >>
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- Marples, W. F.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1947) 73: 66-98
An analysis of a pension fund
66 AN ANALYSIS OF A PENSION FUND BY W. F. MARPLES, F.I.A. [Submitted to the Institute, 28 January 1946] 1. The methods of analysis leading to the usual formulae for the value of the benefits provided by a pension fund are contained in the historic ... read more >>
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- Suttie, T. R.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1947) 73: 37-65
Equity in bonus distribution
In the paper which I submitted to the Institute on 28 April 1944 I discussed the most equitable method of treating appreciation or depreciation in the assets of an office distributing its surplus by means of a uniform reversionary bonus. EQUITY IN BONUS ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1946) 72: 305
Message from the American actuarial bodies
THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES MESSAGE FROM AMERICAN ACTUARIAL BODIES At a joint meeting on 8 November 1945, the Actuarial Society of America and the American Institute of Actuaries adopted unanimously a Resolution of fraternal greetings and con- ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1947) 73: 20-36
Report of the Cohen Committee on Company Law Amendment: abstract of the discussion
20 REPORT OF THE COHEN COMMITTEE ON COMPANY LAW AMENDMENT THE following is an abstract of a discussion which took place at the Institute on 22 October 1945: Mr Lewis G. Whyte, F.F.A., in opening the discussion, referred briefly by way of ... read more >>
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- Isaac, S. F.; Fowler, R. W. A.
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- 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 >>
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- 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 >>
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- Perks, W.
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- 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 >>
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- 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 >>
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- Author:
- Anderson, J. G.
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- 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 >>
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- Author:
- Foster, G. T.
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- 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 >>
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- Author:
- Craig, W. G.
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- 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 >>