On the Books and Forms to be used in Scheduling the Particulars of the Risks of a Life Assurance Company under its Assurance and Annuity Contracts for Periodical or Interim Valuations, Distribution of Surplus, and for Investigation of the Rates of Mortality, Surrender and Lapse

Abstract

The method of valuation to be adopted in any office, and the books and forms to be used in scheduling the particulars necessary for it, must be regulated to a great extent by the requirements of “The Life Assurance Companies Act, 1870”; and it will be convenient here to give a brief summary of those requirements so far as they relate to the subject of this essay.