Longevity
Netherlands
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch government is investigating plans to increase the pension retirement age to 68 by 2030, Global Pensions understands.
10 January 2011
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Europe
EUROPE/US - Swiss Re has transferred $50m of longevity trend risk to the capital markets.
23 December 2010
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Denmark
DENMARK - The ATP Supervisory Board has allocated DKK23bn ($4.1bn) to help safeguard the fund against rising Danish life expectancy.
15 December 2010
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France
FRANCE - The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) plans to start its research on managing longevity risk in January, and could propose governments issue life expectancy indexes.
13 December 2010
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Industry
Changes to longevity assumptions for the latest round of triennial valuations have sent defined benefit scheme liabilities soaring by £50bn, longevity experts say.
08 December 2010
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US
US/UK - UK and US defined benefit plans agree measuring liabilities is the most pressing risk factor affecting schemes, but they take drastically different views on most other risk factors, a new study shows.
07 December 2010
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Industry
As longevity expectations continue to rise, Laura Blows explores the options available to counter this and the move towards standardisation of the longevity hedge market
02 December 2010
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United Kingdom
UK - Increased life expectancy published by the Continuous Mortality Investigation will add an extra £5bn ($7.8bn) onto UK pensions and spark a wave of longevity trades, Aon Hewitt says.
24 November 2010
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Defined Benefit
Increased life expectancy published by the Continuous Mortality Investigation will add an extra £5bn onto UK pensions and spark a wave of longevity trades, Aon Hewitt says.
24 November 2010
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Industry
Schemes may have missed the boat in reforming employee benefit structures to reduce longevity risk, an expert says.
18 November 2010
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