Longevity
Longevity: Living longer, costing more
01 May 2013
In 1985, for every person turning 65, there were 10 new people of working age. According to estimates from the UN, by 2040, for every person turning 65, there will be less than one additional person...
Longevity: The great age of divestment
01 May 2013
Martin Steward looks at evidence for the demographic ‘asset meltdown’ theory, some investment strategy implications – and the major caveats attached to putting too much store in it
Longevity: The second fiscal crisis
01 May 2013
Unchallenged, the projected costs of ageing in Europe are truly terrifying. But Douglas Renwick and Eugene Chiam point to potentially significant long-term mitigation that can – and has – come from...
Longevity: Back to first principles
01 May 2013
Andrew Hunt and David Blake present a new, general procedure for constructing mortality models that unbundles the age, period and cohort dimensions in the data, resulting in better understanding of...
Longevity: A healthier way to de-risk
01 May 2013
Trustees could secure big savings by de-risking through medically-underwritten bulk purchase annuities, argues Debbie Harrison. That could mean the difference between affordability and...
Longevity: Re-distributing the risks
01 May 2013
Bernhard Brunner makes the case for government involvement to kick-start capital-market longevity-hedging instruments
Longevity: Time to get the tradesmen in
01 May 2013
With buyout deals and pipelines buoyant as more DB schemes close to future accrual and sponsors bite the cost bullet, Pádraig Floyd asks whether the short trend for ‘DIY’ has already run its course
Longevity: Beyond buyout and buy-in
01 Apr 2011
The time seems right to develop an international secondary market for longevity risk that allows pension funds to deal with the downside of longer lives, writes Mariska van der Westen
Longevity: Uncertain life expectancies
01 Apr 2011
In the Netherlands, sharply rising life expectancies have been an issue since 2009. Every pension fund is using its own numbers, and the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) forecasts diverge...
Longevity: Age concerns
01 Apr 2011
In Europe, Germany faces the most pressure to deal with an ageing population finds Jonathan Williams
Longevity: Live long… and prosper?
01 Apr 2011
Individual circumstances can make a decade of difference to how long we live after retirement. As Sarah Harper, Kenneth Howse and Steven Baxter observe, this makes simply raising the retirement age...
Longevity: Lives of the SAINTs
01 Apr 2011
At four million, the small population of Denmark is not a reliable dataset for longevity projections. Rachel Fixsen finds out how ATP went global for a better model
Longevity: Will you still feed me?
01 Apr 2011
Improving longevity is clearly a problem on the liabilities side of the balance sheet. Martin Steward looks at it as an opportunity on the assets side, both to generate return and offset risk
