- Title
- A review of the actuaries' capitalisation rate from an economic perspective
- Creator
- Turner, Jason
- ThesisAdvisor
- Mather, Dinty
- Subject
- Macroeconomics
- Subject
- Keynesian economics
- Subject
- Insurance -- Mathematics
- Subject
- South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1961-1991
- Subject
- South Africa -- Economic policy
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MCom
- Identifier
- vital:992
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002727
- Identifier
- Macroeconomics
- Identifier
- Keynesian economics
- Identifier
- Insurance -- Mathematics
- Identifier
- South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1961-1991
- Identifier
- South Africa -- Economic policy
- Description
- The purpose of this paper was to evaluate if the macroeconomic change that has occurred in the South African economy since the 1980s has been significant enough to justify a re-examination of the actuaries’ capitalisation rate, due to its formulation processes dependence on the macroeconomic situation. The need for the reexamination arises from the use of the capitalisation in the calculation of lump sum awards where even a small change in the rate can have a significant impact on the value of the final award. In order to address the issue an examination of how Keynesian expectations are formulated and an examination of the Government’s macroeconomic policy was conducted to provide the foundation. On this foundation, a trend analysis of the major groups of financial instruments, as well as the current outlooks for the South African economy, was conducted to determine if there was any indication of a significant change in the macroeconomic conditions. The results of the analysis provided a compelling case for the urgent need for the actuaries’ capitalisation rate to be recalculated to account for the changed economic situation.
- Format
- 119 leaves, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Commerce, Economics
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Turner, Jason
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