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- Porteous, D. A.
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- 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 >>
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- Simmonds, R. C.
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- 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 >>
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- Suttie, T. R.
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- 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 >>
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- Daw, R. H.
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- 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 >>
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- 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 >>
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- Brown, H.
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- 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 >>
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- Hocking, W. S.
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- 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 >>
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- 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 >>
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- 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 >>
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- 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 >>
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- MacGillivray, E. J.
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- 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 >>
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- Elderton, W. P.; Nicholl, C. C.
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- 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 >>
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- 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 >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 259-276
Continuous mortality investigation, assured lives 1924-38
259 CONTINUOUS MORTALITY INVESTIGATION: ASSURED LIVES 1924-38 STATISTICS have recently been published giving in three periods of 5 years each for the 15 years 1924-38 the exposed to risk and deaths at each age for each year of duration from 0-4 and ... read more >>
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- MacGillivray, E. J.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 424-447
Legal notes
424 BY EVAN JAMES MACGILLIVRAY, B.A., LL.B. One of His Majesty's Counsel Pritchard-Jones v. Le Vaye The primary object of the Courts (Emergency COURT OF APPEAL Powers) Act 1939 is to give relief to a debtor from the misfortunes which the war has brought ... read more >>
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- Elderton, W. P.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 96-98
Discontinuity in the force of mortality
The force of mortality when defined in terms of lx appears to be a continuous function and is assumed to be so in actuarial practice. There are, however, circumstances in which the force of mortality is discontinuous. 96 DISCONTINUITY IN THE FORCE OF ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 124-132
Official publications
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 1940, containing ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 277-283
Continuous mortality investigation: annuity experience
277 CONTINUOUS MORTALITY INVESTIGATION: ANNUITY EXPERIENCE AFTER the mortality of Annuitants had been investigated for 1900—20, monetary tables were prepared based on a forecast of mortality for annuities purchased at the date of the publication of the ... read more >>
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- Lidstone, G. J.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 284-291
Notes on the Poisson frequency distribution
284 NOTES ON THE POISSON FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION BY G. J. LIDSTONE, LL.D., ETC. I N his recent important paper [this Volume, pp. 5-47] Mr H. L. Seal has incidentally called attention to Poisson's Frequency Dis- tribution, hitherto rather unaccountably ... read more >>
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- Elderton, W. P.; Nicholl, C. C.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 413-419
Notes on foreign actuarial journals
413 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. AMERICA Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America, Vol. XLI, Part 1 R. D. MURPHY. Address of the ... read more >>