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The financial management of a with-profit long term fund — some questions of disclosure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

C. S. S. Lyon
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1.1 There are three starting points for this paper. The first is Marshall Field's challenging Presidential Address to the Institute of Actuaries in 1986 on the subject of ‘Risk and Expectation’. The second is the example, still fresh in our minds, of a medium-sized mutual life office which overstretched itself and found it necessary to merge with a competitor. The third is the impending requirement, stemming from the Financial Services Act 1986, to give an investment client, including the holder or prospective holder of an insurance savings contract, what is described as ‘best advice’.

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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 115 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 349 - 404
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1988

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