Includes bibliographical references and index.

Valuation of financial transactions: -- Simple interest -- Compound interest -- Common compound interest transactions -- Demography: -- Characteristics of a population -- Individual characteristics: mortality -- Individual charateristics: fertility -- Population projections -- Actuarial practice: -- Principles of insurance -- Life insurance -- Private health insurance -- Superannuation -- General insurance -- National insurance -- Valuation of contigent payments: -- Discrete random variables -- Valuation of a Single contingent payment -- Valuation of a Series of contingent payments -- Premium calculation -- Relations between Actuarial fluctuations -- Parametervariability