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- Author:
- Young, T.E.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1896-1898) 33: 453-485.
Presidential address: The origin and development of scientific and professional societies, with their bearing upon the Institute of Actuaries and its associated profession
An appendix to the second presidential address of Thomas Emley Young on 29 November 1897, 'The title of Actuary' explores the origin of the title and historical ancestors of 'actuary' from Roman times, page 480-485. JAN. 1898.] ... read more >>
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- Barlow, T.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1854-1855) 5: 337-348
Memoir of the late Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.
Memoir of the late Griffith Davies, abridged from a more extended one by his nephew Thomas Barlow. 337 Memoir of the late Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.; abridged from a more extended one, by his Nephew, THOMAS BARLOW, Esq., of the ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1861-1863) 10: 147-169
Memoir of the late John Finlaison, Esq., Actuary of the National Debt, Government Calculator, and President of the Institute of Actuaries
Obituary of John Finlaison (1783-1860), first president of the Institute of Actuaries from 1848 to 1860. 147 Memoir of the late John Finlaison, Esq., Actuary of the National Debt, Government Calculator, and President of the Institute of Actuaries. FEW ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Bailey, A.H.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA](1862) 10: 142-147
On the principles on which the funds of life assurance societies should be invested
142 On the Principles on which the Funds of Life Assurance Societies should be Invested. By ARTHUR HUTCHESON BAILEY, Esq., Actuary of the London Assurance. [Read before the Institute, 24th February, 1862, and printed by order of the Council.] O F the ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Makeham, W.M.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1860) 8: 301-310
On the law of mortality and the construction of annuity tables
THE ASSURANCE MAGAZINE, AND J O U R N A L OF THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES. On the Law of Mortality and the Construction of Annuity Tables. By WILLIAM MATTHEW MAKEHAM, Esq., of the Church of England Assurance Institution. M OST writers on the subject ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Makeham, W.M.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1867) 13: 325-358
On the law of mortality
JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES. On the Law of Mortality. By WILLIAM MATTHEW MAKEHAM, Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. [Read before the Institute, 29th April, 1867.] IN the following pages I shall have frequent occasion to avail myself of a ... read more >>
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- Esquirou De Parieu, M.; Hendriks, F. (translator)
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1858-1860) 8: 205-231.
John de Witt; or twenty years' interregnum in the Stadtholdership of the seventeenth century
1859.] 205 John De Witt; or, Twenty Years' Interregnum in the Stadtholder- ship of the Seventeenth Century.1 By M. ESQUIROU DE PARIEU, Vice-President of the Imperial Council of State, Member of the Institute of France, &c. &c. (Translated ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1892-1893) 30: 1-8.
The late William Matthew Makeham
APRIL 1892.] 1 JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES. The late William Matthew Makeham. BY the death of Mr. William Matthew Makeham, so feelingly alluded to by the President of the Institute at the opening of the present session, the scientific ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Sprague, T.B.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1879) 21: 406-452
On the construction of a combined marriage and mortality table from observations made as to the rates of marriage and mortality among any body of men; and on the calculation of the values of annuities and assurances that depend on the contingency of marri
406 On the Construction of a Combined Marriage and Mortality Table from Observations made as to the Rates of Marriage and Mortality among any body of Men ; and on the Calculation of the Values of Annuities and Assurances that depend on the Contingency of ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Hendriks, J.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (then Assurance Magazine) (1848-1851) 1: I: 1-20
Memoir of the early history of auxilliary tables for the computation of life contingencies
First article of the Assurance Magazine which became Journal of the Institute of Actuaries. It covers the development of actuarial tables that allowed early actuaries to compute values of annuities and then life assurances. The work of German Johann ... read more >>
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- Manley, H.W. and Thomas, E.C.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1901) 36: 209-287
On the valuation of staff pension funds: with tables and examples [Part 1]
First of series of papers pioneering funded staff occupational pension schemes: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1901) 36: 209-287; (1902) 37: 193-244; (1903) 38: 101-171; (1908) 42: 1-35. OCT. 1901.] 309 JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Sprague, T.B.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries 21 [JIA] (1879): 406-446
On the construction of a combined marriage and mortality table from observations made as to the rates of marriage and mortality among any body of men
Full title: On the construction of a combined marriage and mortality table from observations made 406 On the Construction of a Combined Marriage and Mortality Table from Observations made as to the Rates of Marriage and Mortality among any body of Men ; ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Makeham, W.M.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] 13:325-359
On the law of mortality
JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES. On the Law of Mortality. By WILLIAM MATTHEW MAKEHAM, Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. [Read before the Institute, 29th April, 1867.] IN the following pages I shall have frequent occasion to avail myself of a ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Walford, C.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1886-1887) 26: 1-24
History of life assurance in the United Kingdom, V
JULY 1886.] 1 JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES. History of Life Assurance in the United Kingdom. By CORNELIUS WALFORD, F.I.A. (Continued from Vol. xxv, p. 437.) 3.—PERIOD OF SCIENTIFIC EXACTITUDE—(continued). A CASE arose about this time—the middle ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Walford, C.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1886-1887) 26: 302-315
History of life assurance in the United Kingdom, VI
302 History of Life Assurance in the United Kingdom. By CORNELIUS WALFORD, F.I.A. (Continued from p. 132.) 5 .—LIFE ASSURANCE—1825 TO 1843. The state of the law in respect to Joint-Stock Companies, and associations for business purposes generally, ... read more >>
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- Author:
- Deuchar, J.J.W.
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- Transactions of the Insurance and Actuarial Society of Glasgow,1st Series, 3: 35-71
A sketch of the history of the science of life contingencies, with special reference to the origin and construction of mortality tables
A survey of actuarial history identifying the key 'life tables' of life expectation drawn from mortality data sources encompassing: 'Ulpian's Table' of late Roman times, John Graunt's observations (1662); Edmund Halley's mortality table derived from ... read more >>