British Actuarial Journal: Volume 12 -

The Cost of Capital for Financial Firms
C. J. Exley, A. D. Smith
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10 June 2011, pp. 229-283
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Most businesses have assets financed by capital providers. The cost of capital is a measure of the returns required by those capital providers. Its main use is to set a target for the profits, which must be achieved on the firm's assets in order to satisfy equity and bond holders.
This paper describes the classical theory of the cost of capital, and then applies it to the special case of banking and insurance firms. We develop implications for product pricing, performance measurement and capital structure optimisation.

The Recent Trend of Mortality in the United Kingdom
C. D. Daykin, A. P. Gallop
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10 June 2011, pp. 303-316
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This note continues a regular series on mortality rates in the United Kingdom. Mortality experienced in each of the years 1999 to 2004 is shown by five-year age groups, and comparisons are made for broad age groups, on a standardised basis, with mortality in earlier years.

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