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Valuation of Individual Investment-Linked Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2014

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Synopsis

The authors are the members of a Working Party which was set up by the Councils of the Faculty and the Institute and whose terms of reference included the following:

1. To consider appropriate methods of valuation for individual investment-linked contracts having regard, inter alia, to the proposed rules for valuing long-term business liabilities.

2. To recommend revisions to the proposed rules or interpretations, as appropriate, to cope with the special problems of investment-linked business.

This paper presents the results of their investigations and includes consideration of the Returns to be made to the Department of Trade.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1977

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