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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 420-423
Official publications
420 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 June 1942, containing ... read more >>
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- Lidstone, G. J.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 68-95
Notes on interpolation (part II). - III(i) continued. The origin of the throw-back device. IV. Aitken's new method of inverse interpolation. V. The connexion of the throw-back with Stirling's and Bessel's formulae
68 NOTES ON INTERPOLATION (PART II).*—III (i) CONTINUED. THE ORIGIN OF THE THROW-BACK DEVICE. IV. AIT- KEN'S NEW METHOD OF INVERSE INTERPOLATION. V. THE CONNEXION OF THE THROW-BACK WITH STIRLING'S AND BESSEL'S FORMULAE BY G. J. LIDSTONE, LL.D., ETC. III ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 169-182
Reviews I
169 REVIEWS Reports of the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee on the Financial Condition of the Unemployment Fund. [Seventh General and Fourth Agricultural Reports, as at 31 Dec. 1939. Pp. 27. H.M. Stationery Office. 1940. Price 6d.] T H E ... read more >>
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- MacGillivray, E. J.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 292-321
Legal notes
292 COURT OF APPEAL 1940. December 13. [1941] I All E.R. III. 57 T.L.R. 247. LEGAL NOTES BY EVAN JAMES MACGILLIVRAY, B.A., LL.B. One of His Majesty's Counsel Sothern-Smith v. Clancy In consideration of a single premium payment an insurance company ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 409-410
Continuous mortality investigation: assured lives 1924-38
REVIEWS Survival Models and Their Estimation. By DICK LONDON, FSA published by ACTEX Publications, Winsted and Abington, Connecticut 1986. This preliminary edition of the first eight chapters has been prepared for the use of those taking examinations ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 352
New Year honours, 1942: Sir Sydney Turner
352 NEW YEAR HONOURS, 1942 SIR SIDNEY TURNER, C.B.E. AMONG those honoured by His Majesty the King in the Honours List published on 1st January, 1942, was Mr Sidney Turner, C.B.E., B.A., F.I.A., the Accountant General and Controller of Pension Funds of ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 340-351
Reviews II
340 REVIEWS The Investment of the Funds of Social Insurance Institutions. (Studies and Reports—Social Insurance—No. 16.) [Pp. v+ 196. 5s. International Labour Office (League of Nations), Geneva, 1939.] ΤΗIS is an account of an interesting effort in ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 183-184
Memoirs I
183 OBITUARY REINHOLD PALMQVIST D R PALMQVIST who died on 10 February 1940 was born in Stockholm on 19 April 1885 and educated at the University in that city. He was the actuary at the Inspecting Board for Private Insurance from 1915 to 1917 and actuary ... read more >>
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- Hocking, W. S.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 411-412
The recent trend of mortality in England and Wales
411 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. 99-100, the central death rates in age groups for males and females ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 333-339
Memoirs II
333 OBITUARY EDWARD ROBERT STRAKER M R STRAKER died at St Albans on 24 January 1941, at the age of 81. The last ten years of his life were overclouded by a serious illness which confined him to his room. He was thus unknown, except in name, to junior ... read more >>
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- Anderson, R D.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 228-258
On the application of quantum mechanics to mortality tables
Quantum Mechanics is a portentous name; the alternative—Wave Mechanics—is almost as bad. The mathematics are formidable, the literature large and growing rapidly, and the subject-matter dealt with is the behaviour of physical things, such as ... read more >>
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- William Elderton; C Nicholl
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 133-141
Notes on foreign actuarial journals
133 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 of the Actuarial Society of America, Vol. XL, Part II R. D. ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 448-459
Memoirs III
448 MEMOIRS WILLIAM PEYTON PHELPS W E record with the greatest regret the death on 14 March 1942, a few weeks before his 77th birthday, of W I L L I AM PEYTON,PHELPS, M.A., a Fellow and Past President of the Institute. He was unmarried but leaves a ... read more >>
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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 >>