Professional Pensions and Mercer Deskflix Event: Covid-19
Dealing with the impacts. The event examines how the pandemic has amplified some of the challenges DB and DC pension schemes have to overcome, and how you’ll now need to rise to a new set of challenges that, whilst created by Covid-19, are probably here to stay.
Fieldfisher’s David Gallagher and Larisa Gordan discuss recent challenges TPO has faced
H1 2024 data shows similar mortality data to H1 2019, and rates are 3.4% lower than 2023
Excess deaths in 2023 were the lowest measured of any year following the pandemic
Life expectancy at birth fell to 78.6 years for men and 82.6 for women, ONS data from 2020-22 shows
The growth in the breadth and depth of the social bond market is impressive, but there's still more to come, according to Columbia Threadneedle Investments
CMI finds England and Wales had ninth highest excess mortality of 24 territories analysed
CMI data shows Q1 2023 had 20,200 more deaths from all causes than expected
Professional Pensions finds out how things have changed for trustees
The picture around social is less joined up among government and investors, AXA IM says