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Nourishing dogs and cats through their twilight years [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Ageing dogs and cats represent a significant proportion of the canine and feline population. Factors attributed to increasing longevity in these species include improved veterinary health care; nutrition; and a healthier lifestyle.
Lumbis, R H
core   +1 more source

The Role of Longevity-Indexed Bond in Risk Management of Aggregated Defined Benefit Pension Scheme

open access: yesRisks
Defined benefit (DB) pension plans are a primary type of pension schemes with the sponsor assuming most of the risks. Longevity-indexed bonds have been used to hedge or transfer risks in pension plans.
Xiaoyi Zhang, Yanan Li, Junyi Guo
doaj   +1 more source

Can Pension Funds Partially Manage Longevity Risk by Investing in a Longevity Megafund? [PDF]

open access: yesRisks, 2018
Pension funds, which manage the financing of a large share of global retirement schemes, need to invest their assets in a diversified manner and over long durations while managing interest rate and longevity risks. In recent years, a new type of investment has emerged, that we call a longevity megafund, which invests in clinical trials for solutions ...
Edouard Debonneuil   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Longevity and mortality of owned dogs in England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Improved understanding of longevity represents a significant welfare opportunity for the domestic dog, given its unparalleled morphological diversity.
Brodbelt, D C   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease after pediatric kidney transplant

open access: yesFrontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) is the most common malignancy complicating solid organ transplantation (SOT) in adults and children.
Rosanna Fulchiero   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Indexation Mechanism for Retirement Age: Analysis of the Gender Gap

open access: yesRisks, 2019
The management of National Social Security Systems is being challenged more and more by the rapid ageing of the population, especially in the industrialized countries.
Mariarosaria Coppola   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pre-Weaned Calf Rearing on Northern Irish Dairy Farms: Part 1. A Description of Calf Management and Housing Design

open access: yesAnimals, 2021
The first few months of life are of great importance to the longevity and lifetime performance of dairy cows. The nutrition, environment and healthcare management of heifer calves must be sufficient to minimise exposure to stress and disease and enable ...
Aaron J Brown   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Longevity Risk Management for Individual Investors

open access: yes, 2012
We model and numerically solve the optimal asset allocation problem of a retired couple with uncertain lifetime, in the presence of a life insurance policy. The couple maximizes expected utility over their joint lifetime by dynamically adjusting their asset allocation and purchasing term-life insurance.
Kim, Woo Chang   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Chapter 4: ‘Helping Savers to Manage Longevity Risk’ [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
A particularly important issue in retirement income provision is longevity risk. There are two components to longevity risk. The first is the uncertainty over how long any particular pension scheme member is going to live after retirement. This is known as idiosyncratic longevity risk. Both individuals and schemes face idiosyncratic longevity risk. The
openaire   +2 more sources

Breaking the Mortality Curve: Investment-Driven Acceleration in Life Expectancy and Insurance Innovation

open access: yesRisks
Capital investment in longevity science—research targeting the biological processes of aging through interventions like cellular reprogramming, AI-driven drug discovery, and biological age monitoring—may create significant divergence between traditional ...
David M. Dror
doaj   +1 more source

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