Event recordings

Replay "Balancing privacy and best price in the age of US pension risk transfer" where our expert panel explored how useful it is for pension plans to share certain data fields, such as ZIP+4, with service providers. We discussed how reducing uncertainty by providing extra data fields could improve prices during a pension risk transfer. We examined techniques for anonymizing personal data while retaining the potential for predictive analytics. Our panel also shared their latest thinking on the newly released American Data Privacy Protection Act and gave insight into how other countries have dealt with similar challenges.

Replay "Bill C-228 - Canada’s pension super-priority bill: Implications and potential risk management strategies for DB plan sponsors" where we explored Bill C-228, the controversial super-priority pension bill which received Royal Assent on April 27th, 2023, and is scheduled to take effect in 4 years time. The bill, which applies to pension plans across Canada regardless of jurisdiction, gives priority to pension plan deficits ahead of secured creditors during bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings and is likely to have an impact on commercial lending and corporate debt issuance.

This is a recording of our webinar, during which we took stock of the current situation of the ongoing pandemic, and looked at vaccine roll out and emerging strains. We explored how scenario modelling, a cornerstone of risk management, can be used to explore the longevity risk arising as a result of the pandemic, and presented scenario analysis completed by Club Vita, that is also available in the whitepaper accompanying this webinar.

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most serious health emergencies of modern times. In the replay of our second special webinar, our distinguished panel of experts will speak about the topics at hand and answer your questions.

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most serious health emergencies of modern times. In this webinar replay, our distinguished panel of experts will speak about the topics at hand and answer your questions. A detailed Q&A from the session is also posted with the recording.

Whilst the grim advance of the COVID-19 pandemic has continued since our webinar on April 15th, the likely changes to our future world have also started to come into focus.

Replay "Do you care enough? Behavioral drivers of longevity and retirement outcomes" where we explored some key behavioral drivers of longevity; presented the results of a new Club Vita survey; discussed behavioral nudges that could help to improve health and retirement outcomes; and learned how businesses can help improve health equality and resilience. Club Vita’s Longevity, Lifestyle and Retirement Perception Survey 2022 is available for download together with this event recording.

With equities hitting new highs, more and more Canadian pension plan sponsors are considering taking the opportunity to shrink or de-risk their pension obligations. But the business case depends on more than just the financial side.

This recorded webinar was the first in a series of Club Vita educational webinars on actuarial techniques for calculating longevity/mortality rates. In Longevity 101, we focused on the building blocks of longevity assumptions: current, or “baseline” longevity.

This is a recording of our webinar where we will focus on how mortality rates are expected to change in the future. These changes are commonly known as improvements, as we usually expect life expectancy to increase over time. To allow for the possibility that life expectancy may not always increase, we also refer to these changes as trends.

Replay the third in our series of educational webinars; Longevity 103 where we discussed the management of longevity risk.

Replay "Looking to the horizon: how should we set long term longevity improvement rates?" where we explored the theory and practice of setting long term longevity improvements. We first gave an overview of methods available for actuaries in setting long term rates and then heard from our expert panel about considerations and methods that have been implemented in practice in Canada, the UK and the US.

Replay our uplifting webinar where we discussed reasons to be cheerful: exploring potential big-ticket drivers of future longevity improvements.

In this webinar replay, we'll discuss the basics about dementia, take a look at the outlook of current research and explore effects of future longevity.

In this webinar replay, Club Vita’s architect-in-chief, Steven Baxter will introduce the latest thinking on enabling index-based transfers of longevity and mortality risks.

In this webinar replay, we discuss communication and its effect on how people respond to issues of longevity, mortality, long-term planning and risk.

What does the research tell us about differences in life expectancy that are attributable to things hard-coded into our DNA, rather than in our personal lifestyle choices? And with the first gene therapies becoming available, what is the outlook for the extension of human life? Actuary-turned-geneticist, Peter Joshi, nurse-turned-medical-researcher, Nicola Oliver and Douglas Anderson, Founder of Club Vita discuss the big issues.

In new research we analyzed Club Vita’s UK and Canadian data sets in search of evidence of a distinct public/private sector effect on longevity.