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On the Assessment of Life Risks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

James Chisholm
Affiliation:
Institute of Actuaries Imperial Life Insurance Company

Extract

By the assessment of life-risks, I mean the gathering together all the scattered influences that bear on the duration of life of particular individuals; the connoting in the mind the weight to be attached to the several factors that make up such influences; and, finally, the fixing the price of assurance for each individual life which approximately puts all upon a level.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1886

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