All Longevity articles – Page 5
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Longevity: Time to get the tradesmen in
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
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Longevity: A healthier way to de-risk
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 unaffordability
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Longevity: The second fiscal crisis
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 reforms
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Longevity: Living longer, costing more
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 in the 20-64 years age groupage
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Longevity: Back to first principles
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 historic changes in mortality and more reliable forecasts of future mortality rates
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Special ReportLongevity: The great age of divestment
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
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Longevity: Lives of the SAINTs
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
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Special ReportLongevity: Live long… and prosper?
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 inequitable
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Longevity: Will you still feed me?
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
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Longevity: Uncertain life expectancies
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 from the Dutch Actuarial Association’s. André de Vos tries to sort the confusion
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Longevity: Beyond buyout and buy-in
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
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Longevity: Age concerns
In Europe, Germany faces the most pressure to deal with an ageing population finds Jonathan Williams
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