CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3] — Page 181

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Re Section 24 Page 897. This Section provides that the

Company may be wound up on the application of any policy holder,

if it can be proved that the Company is insolvent, the liabiliti-

-es being ascertained by a net premium valuation at 4 per cent,

based on the "combined experience" or "actuaries" table of

mortality (called rate of mortality in the text). It appears to

me that this section requires considerable amendment.

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It is impossible to lay down the rate of interest which

should be used in making a valuation for solvency among the

Companies doing business in the East. The Sun Life of Canada, for

instance, earned for the period ending December 31st., 1901,

interest at the rate of 44 per cent per annum. The Standard

for the period ending November 1900 earned a rate of interest

3ths., these being the latest figures published in any

British returns. The China Mutual last year earned at the rate

of 6 per cent on the mean fund. It will be seen, therefore,

that it is quite impossible to lay down any fixed rate of

interest suitable to even these three Companies, it being an

axiom that a true rate interest must be employed in valuing for

solvency.

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A net premium valuation is no test whatever of solvency.

A Table of Mortality quoted is obsolete and is certainly

never used by English Companies, though it may be by some

American Companies. The object of this section would be effect-

-ed if it read beginning on the seventh line of the section

and the last word "counting (as such) the value of its policies

"on such a basis of valuation as to mortality and interest as

"shall be determined by the registrar in consultation with two

"or more actuaries, taking into consideration the circumstances

of the particular Company".

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