ABOUT THE BOOK

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    Accession Number

 B822

    Title

 Life Contingencies

    Author

 Neill, Alistair

    Publisher

 Heinemann

    ISBN

 

     Summary

The main purpose of this book is to serve as a text-book for students studying for the professional examinations of the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries. It covers the principal ‘basic’ specialist tool of an actuary-life contingencies-and its application to the calculation of premiums and contributions, and the valuation, of life assurance contracts and pension funds. The contents of the book includes below: 1. The Mortality Table 2. Annuities, Assurances, Premiums 3. Functions other than Yearly 4. Policy Values 5. Surrender and Paid-up Values: Bonus: Special Policies 6. Applications of Calculus: Population Theory 7. Joint Life and Last Survivor Statuses 8. Contingent Functions and Reversionary Annuities 9. Multiple-Decrement Tables 10. Pension Fund Functions 11. Miscellaneous Topics