Preface to the second edition page -- Introduction to life insurance -- Survival models -- Life tables and selection -- Insurance benefits -- Annuities -- Premium calculation -- Policy values -- Multiple state models -- Joint life and last survivor benefits -- Pension mathematics -- Non-diversiable risk -- Emerging costs for traditional life insurance -- Participating and universal life insurance -- Emerging costs for equity-linked insurance -- Option pricing -- Embedded options -- Appendix a: probability theory -- Appendix b: numerical techniques -- Appendix c: simulation -- Appendix d: tables -- References.