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Annuities certain at linearly decreasing rates of interest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2014

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The problem considered by Mr E. M. Thomas on pp. 253-4 of J.S.S. Vol. VII can be approached analytically as follows:

Consider the ratio where and

. This is a function of h and may be expanded in a Taylor series

The first term on the right-hand side is unity and it is easy to show that the second term is

where v = (I + i)−1.

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Copyright © Institute of Actuaries Students' Society 1949

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