From the reviews "The highly esteemed 1990 first edition of this book now appears in a much expanded second edition. The difference between the first two English editions is entirely due to the addition of numerous exercises. The result is a truly excellent book, balancing ideally between theory and practice. ....As already hinted at above, this book provides the ideal bridge between the classical (deterministic) life insurance theory and the emerging dynamic models based on stochastic processes and the modern theory of finance. The structure of the bridge is very solid, though at the...

From the reviews "The highly esteemed 1990 first edition of this book now appears in a much expanded second edition. The difference between the first two English editions is entirely due to the addition of numerous exercises. The result is a truly excellent book, balancing ideally between theory and practice. ....As already hinted at above, this book provides the ideal bridge between the classical (deterministic) life insurance theory and the emerging dynamic models based on stochastic processes and the modern theory of finance. The structure of the bridge is very solid, though at the...

In den letzten Monaten haben die Zeitungen vieWiltige Bilder iiber die Er scheinung des Kometen Halley veroffentlicht. Seit 76 Jahren ist er diesen Winter am niichtlichen Himmel wieder sichtbar geworden. Es ist deshalb sinnvoll, auch an die Tatsache zu erinnern, daB Sir Edmund Halley 1693 auch die erste Sterbetafel konstruierte und damit die wissenschaftliche Basis fUr die DurchfUhrung der Lebensversicherung schuf. Die traditionelle Interpretation dieser und spiiter verwendeter Sterbetafeln ist deterministisch, d. h. sie geht von der Vorstellung aus, daB z. B. die Anzahl der in einem Jahr...