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Immunization and Hedging of Post Retirement Income Annuity Products

Risks, 2017
Designing post retirement benefits requires access to appropriate investment instruments to manage the interest rate and longevity risks. Post retirement benefits are increasingly taken as a form of income benefit, either as a pension or an annuity ...
Changyu Liu, Michael Sherris
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IV Thrombolysis Facilitates Interventional Reperfusion in Non‐Cardioembolic but Not Cardioembolic Stroke

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) before thrombectomy for ischemic stroke may alter clot structure and procedural performance. We investigated how IVT relates to thrombectomy metrics across stroke etiologies. Methods We performed a time‐to‐event analysis of consecutive patients with anterior circulation large vessel occlusion (acLVO ...
Annahita Sedghi, Daniel P. O. Kaiser, Martin Arndt, Norma J. Diel, Erik Simon, Witold H. Polanski, Volker Puetz, Hagen B. Huttner, Timo Siepmann   +8 more
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The cost of counterparty risk and collateralization in longevity swaps [PDF]

Derivative longevity risk solutions, such as bespoke and indexed longevity swaps, allow pension schemes and annuity providers to swap out longevity risk, but introduce counterparty credit risk, which can be mitigated if not fully eliminated by ...
Biffis, Enrico, Blake, David, Pitotti, Lorenzo, Sun, Ariel   +3 more
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Single and cross-generation natural hedging of longevity and financial risk [PDF]

, 2015
The paper provides natural hedging strategies among death benefits and annuities written on a single and on different generations. It obtains closed-form Delta and Gamma hedges, in the presence of both longevity and interest rate risk.
Luciano, Elisa, Regis, Luca, Vigna, Elena   +2 more
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Adding Shocks to a Prospective Mortality Model

Risks
This work proposes a simple model to take into account the annual volatility of the mortality level observed on the scale of a country like France in the construction of prospective mortality tables.
Frédéric Planchet, Guillaume Gautier de La Plaine   +1 more
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Classification for longevity potential: the use of novel biomarkers

Frontiers in Public Health, 2016
Background: In older people chronological age may not be the best predictor of residual lifespan and mortality, because with age the heterogeneity in health is increasing. Biomarkers for biological age and residual lifespan are being developed to predict
Marian Beekman, Hae-Won Uh, Diana Van Heemst, Manfred Wuhrer, L. Renee Ruhaak, Vanessa Gonzalez-Covarrubias, Vanessa Gonzalez-Covarrubias, Thomas Hankemeier, Thomas Hankemeier, Jeanine J. Houwing-Duistermaat, P. Eline Slagboom   +10 more
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New Onset of Fibromyalgia After Exposure to a Combat Environment: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Traumatic life events are hypothesized to be triggers for the onset of fibromyalgia. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common comorbidity of fibromyalgia. However, limited prospective data are available on the development of fibromyalgia after exposure to high‐magnitude stress.
Jay B. Higgs, Willie J. Hale, Casey L. Straud, Jim Mintz, Stacey Young‐McCaughan, Kimberly D. Gomes, Chelsea J. Sterne, Katrina M. Lawrence‐Wolff, Alan J. Bartholomew, Kevin M. Kelly, Douglas M. Maurer, Catherine Vriend, Brett T. Litz, Douglas E. Williamson, Alan L. Peterson, for the STRONG STAR Consortium   +15 more
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Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor–Related Myositis and Associated Triad Overlap Syndrome

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) myositis is a rare but a highly morbid condition, particularly with the ICI myositis triad syndrome of myositis, myocarditis, and myasthenia gravis. We report the clinical characteristics of ICI myositis and all‐cause mortality in these patients.
Selene Rubino, Grant W. Cannon, Brian C. Sauer, Jorge Rojas, Gregory J. Stoddard, Gary A. Kunkel, Jessica A. Walsh, Bryant R. England, Joshua F. Baker, Tawnie J. Braaten   +9 more
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Understanding, Modeling and Managing Longevity Risk: Key Issues and Main Challenges [PDF]

This article investigates the latest developments in longevity risk modelling, and explores the key risk management challenges for both the financial and insurance industries.
Caroline Hillairet, Claudia Ravanelli, Harry Bensusan, Nicole El Karoui, Pauline Barrieu, Stéphane Loisel, Yahia Salhi   +6 more
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Patient risk taking and spending habits correlate with willingness to pay for novel total joint arthroplasty implants

Arthroplasty Today, 2015
In this study, we compare patients' risk-taking and spending behaviors to their willingness to pay (WTP) for novel implants in a joint arthroplasty. 210 patients were surveyed regarding risk-taking and spending behavior, and WTP for novel implants with ...
Ran Schwarzkopf, MD, MSc, Timothy L. Kahn, BSc   +1 more
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