Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Insurance Guide and Hand Book: Being a Guide to the Principles and Practice of Life Assurance and a Hand Book of the Best Authorities on the Science by the Late Cornelius Walford, Third Edition
The earlier editions of the guide were, it may be remembered, dedicated especially to Insurance Agents. This fact the present Editor, in the course of his revision, has not overlooked. On the contrary, it has been one of his main objects to place before this section of his readers, in a popular manner, the leading principles upon which Life Assurance, as regards both its Theory and Practice, should be based. For those, too, - whether students or fully-qualified actuaries - who desire to form a closer acquaintance with these principles, he may express the hope that such chapters as those on the various Mortality Tables - which he has made as complete as possible - on the Comparative Risks of Occupation, on the Rise and Progress of Industrial Assurance, and on Life Assurance in the United States and the Colonies, will be considered both serviceable and instructive. The guide, however, should not be regarded as in any sense a text-book, but merely as a supplement to those far more erudite works which, under the superintendence of the Institute of Actuaries, have been compiled with the object of assisting students in their examinations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
