Society of Actuaries' Textbook on Life Contingencies Second Edition

Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface for the Society of Actuaries......Page 3
Author\'s Preface to the Second Edition......Page 6
Part I. Single-Life Functions......Page 9
1. The Measurement of Mortality......Page 10
2. Life Annuities......Page 44
3. Life Insurance......Page 72
4. Net Annual Premiums......Page 88
5. Net Level Premium Reserves......Page 103
6. The Expense Factor......Page 139
7. Special Topics......Page 157
8. Population Theory......Page 177
Part II. Multi-Life Functions......Page 196
9. The Joint-Life Status......Page 197
10. Last-Survivor and General Multi-Life Statuses......Page 216
11. Contingent Functions......Page 231
12. Compound Contingent Functions......Page 252
13. Reversionary Annuities......Page 261
Part III. Multiple-Decrement Functions......Page 275
14. Multiple-Decrement Tables......Page 276
15. Tables with Secondary Decrements......Page 296
16. A Generalized Model......Page 310
Appendix I. Tables......Page 336
A. The Commissioners 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table......Page 337
B. Life Table for White Males: United States, 1959-61......Page 350
Appendix II. Derivatives of Actuarial Functions......Page 353
Answers to the Exercises......Page 355
Bibliography......Page 379
Index to Notation......Page 383
General Index......Page 391