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Biocultural risks in longevity: Samoans in California
Social Science & Medicine, 1982Because migration is such a widespread phenomenon, studies of the effects of accompanying life change on the health and well-being of the migrant have special significance in areas like California that support large migrant communities. Previous studies have shown that increased weight and elevated blood pressure may be linked to changes in diet ...
I G, Pawson, G, Janes
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The Fundamentals of Longevity Risk
The Journal of Alternative Investments, 2014The authors’ firm, Risk Management Solutions, has had a front-row seat in the development of catastrophe-linked securities from an esoteric, fringe asset class to a mainstream, zero-beta, alternative fixed-income asset class. Investors new to catastrophe-linked securities looked to gain enough comfort to take on catastrophe risk.
Peter Nakada +5 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
The uncertainty about the future mortality developments is referred to as longevity risk. This paper quanti…es the size of longevity risk premium which should be priced in various longevity-linked securities and annuity contracts. The goal of this project is to tackle the pricing di¢ culty emerged during the market innovation of the potential longevity-
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The uncertainty about the future mortality developments is referred to as longevity risk. This paper quanti…es the size of longevity risk premium which should be priced in various longevity-linked securities and annuity contracts. The goal of this project is to tackle the pricing di¢ culty emerged during the market innovation of the potential longevity-
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Longevity risk in living benefits [PDF]
, 2004 Uncertainty in mortality and disability trends, from which the longevity risk in living benefits arises, is discussed. The financial impact of longevity risk on life annuities, sickness benefits for the elderly and long-term care covers is then analysed, focussing in particular solvency requirements and reinsurance arrangements.
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2017
Longevity is one of the greatest risks threatening the stability of our society. An anti-ageing breakthrough that slowed down our biological clocks would cause profound challenges for our society, particularly if it was a quick and cheap intervention. The adjustment would be difficult for politicians: many countries operate pay-as-you-go state pension ...
Douglas Anderson, Steven Baxter
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Longevity is one of the greatest risks threatening the stability of our society. An anti-ageing breakthrough that slowed down our biological clocks would cause profound challenges for our society, particularly if it was a quick and cheap intervention. The adjustment would be difficult for politicians: many countries operate pay-as-you-go state pension ...
Douglas Anderson, Steven Baxter
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Longevity Complementarities Under Competing Risks
American Economic Review, 1999Many of the high-expenditure health programs established by international organizations or national and subnational governments involve disease-specific interventions, such as measles vaccinations, HIV education programs, mammogram screening, malaria prevention, and lung cancer research.
Tomas J. Philipson +2 more
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2017
This chapter examines the insurance and pension-related risks arising from the uncertainty of human life-length, which constitute the most important part of a major class of insurance risks sometimes referred to under the umbrella term biometric risks.
Erzsébet Kovács, Péter Vékás
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This chapter examines the insurance and pension-related risks arising from the uncertainty of human life-length, which constitute the most important part of a major class of insurance risks sometimes referred to under the umbrella term biometric risks.
Erzsébet Kovács, Péter Vékás
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Local risk‐minimization with longevity bonds
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 2014AbstractThis paper studies the criterion of local risk‐minimization for life insurance contracts in a financial market, which includes longevity bonds. The longevity bond is a bond specifying payments, which are linked to the current number of survivors in a given portfolio of insured lives.
Henriksen, Lars Frederik Brandt +1 more
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Longevity Risk and Capital Markets [PDF]
North American Actuarial Journal, 2011 This Special Issue of the North American Actuarial Journal contains ten contributions to the academic literature all dealing with longevity risk and capital markets. Draft versions of the papers were presented at Longevity Five: the Fifth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference that was held in New York on 25-26 September ...
Blake, David +3 more
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Systematic longevity risk: to bear or to insure?
Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2019AbstractWe compare two contracts for managing systematic longevity risk in retirement: a collective arrangement that distributes the risk among participants, and a market-provided annuity contract. We evaluate the contracts’ appeal with respect to the retiree's welfare, and the viability of the market solution through the financial reward to the ...
Boon, Ling Ni +2 more
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