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On Calculation of Moments of the Value of a Life Assurance Liability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

G. C. Taylor
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Extract

Pollard and Pollard pointed out that, while it has been conventional to refer to Ax, as ‘the present value of an assurance of one on a life aged x’, this value is a random variable (denoted by Ãx) with mean Ax.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 98 , Issue 2 , September 1972 , pp. 157 - 164
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1972

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